atmasphere
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| Why manufactures don´t burn in their amps and ... A voltage drop on the power cord is caused by two things: the gauge of the wire and the quality of the connections.If your power cord is heating up at the connectors, here is an example of why things like the Porterport or medical-grade connectors... | |
| Does Pass Aleph 3 heat up the room like tube amp? my experience has been that if you choose a system based on the heat that it makes (or doesn't), the sound will reflect that.If the heat issue is really that bad, look into class D amps.There are probably other alternatives though. You could vent ... | |
| Why manufactures don´t burn in their amps and ... For those who wonder how a power cord can make a difference, consider this: an amplifier has a power transformer, rectifiers and filter capacitors in its power supply. Normally, the filter caps are charged by the rectifiers as the transformer make... | |
| Unbalanced pre out to balanced amp in The specs call for a source impedance maximum of 2Kohms. There are a lot of preamps that can do that, although some of them may have trouble making bass.IMO/IME, you are better off with a step-down transformer, maybe 10K to 600 ohms. You loose som... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Nandric, seems to me I got 3 weights also. Have you contacted Triplanar about this? | |
| Unbalanced pre out to balanced amp in By 'across' , I mean in parallel with the output.If the input of the xformer is supposed to be 20K and the output 600ohms, then the xformer will express 20K to the input if there is a 600 ohm resistance across the secondary.Its the same idea that ... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Lewm, we asked ourselves exactly the same question! That was 5 years ago though....I talked to Tri today- he is still trying to get things back to 'normal' :) got a think or two coming he does | |
| Where are you buying new vinyl? In the Twin Cities, I get most of my stuff at Cheapo Records.When in Denver, I always stop at the Black and Read in Arvada. Wax Trax has yielded some awesome stuff too.Tucson has a great store, PDQWhen my band played a show in Chicago a couple of ... | |
| Unbalanced pre out to balanced amp in From the data sheet, a fairly wide range of impedances is shown for the load, but they also show that the output impedance of the transformer is 80 ohms. There is a rule of thumb that suggests that the load would be about 800 ohm (IOW 10X the outp... | |
| Unbalanced pre out to balanced amp in The Jensen transformers are excellent! But- like all transformers, if you want to really get the most out of them, make sure that the secondary side of the transformer is loaded to the value specified. For example if the output is 600 ohms, put a ... | |
| Well recorded records ... what are your picks? A few not mentioned, and if you are tired of the same old same old:Black Sabbath: Paranoid (I recommend the white label German or British Vertigo label). This LP will bring most stereos to their respective knees. You have to have wide bandwidth, w... | |
| The Richard Clark "all amps sounds the same" test Lightminer, I read somewhere that Richard Clark refused to pay up when the conditions of his test were met. Do you know anything about that?I also understand that there remain some validity issues relating to the signal source hookup as well as th... | |
| Amp damping factor? Another aspect of loop feedback is that all amplifiers have a delay time- the time that it takes for the signal to propogate from input to output.What this means is that the feedback signal will always be a little late getting back to the input of... | |
| Direct drive/rim drive/idler drive vs. belt drive? Lew, 5/8" is a pretty big hole. The stomp switches are usually set up for 1/2". We found that the plinth had a lot of effect too- again, it is a resonant signature, and one unique to each 'table. The more you can reduce this issue (along with tigh... | |
| TriPlanar Tips BTW- Tri was married this last weekend! Congrats to the new couple!In a quote from the groom: "...I expect that things will calm down and get back to normal now" yeah right :) |