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| Audioquest Makenzie XLRs The professional balanced/XLR pin arrangement in the U.S.A. adheres to AES File 48:Pin 1: GroundPin 2: Non-inverted signalPin 3: Inverted signalThat is how all pro equipment is wired (as well as consumer electronics designed by engineers who wish ... | |
| External crossover unit running mains full-range with internal sub crossover freq control The old solution to your quandary is to install a simple high-pass filter on the input jacks of the power amplifier driving the main speakers. A single capacitor and resistor creates a 1st-order filter that removes frequencies below a certain Hz a... | |
| Your Favorite Holiday Album @ilikemiles, The Ventures Christmas album was the first xmas album I owned. The Mosrite guitars they played on the album have that great twangy sound they are known for (except for Johnny Ramones' ;-) . When I last saw them live (on a cruise ship ... | |
| Thoughts on VTA...... I first read about adjusting VTA/SRA for every record, putting a notation on the LP cover for where to set the arm for that record, when Enid Lumley was writing for TAS. I was young at that time (in my 20's, anyway), and I already thought "Life is... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD For those who like "Americana" music, know that New West Records, home to many of my favorite artists (Buddy Miller, John Hiatt, Rodney Crowell, Richard Thompson, plenty of others) offers some of their titles on cassette. | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. @ramtubes, Roger, I know you consider the 6DJ8 superior to the 12AX7 for use in a phono stage, but let me ask you this anyway ;-) : how do you feel about substituting a pair of 5751’s in place of a phono amp’s 12AX7’s? I know the 5751 exhibits low... | |
| What’s wrong with Diana Krall? I’ve seen some of our greatest artists at different points in their lives, and they have been almost like different people. I’m thinking mostly of Bob Dylan and Brian Wilson. I’ve also been involved with a few artists, and saw first-hand how they ... | |
| Rectifier Tube Rolling in a Modwight LS 36.5DM EAR-Yoshino's Tim de Paravicini has talked about how in the "old days" when one tube maker ran low of a given model (tube factories often made an entire years supply all at once, then switched over in production to a different model), they would b... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. @krelldreams, if LPs are your main source and focus, one option is to buy as good a phono stage as you have the dough for, along with a relatively inexpensive passive pre. Passives work better in some situations than others, having to do with sour... | |
| Rectifier Tube Rolling in a Modwight LS 36.5DM @roberman, I love your making the point that what is commonly thought of as the "sound" of a tube is more a matter of it’s electrical characteristics and performance in any given circuit than some inherent subjective, "artistic" quality. That elec... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. @krelldreams, the "cleaning of a window" is the transparency I was speaking of above. It’s the opposite of the veiled, opaque, translucent sound (a layer of "scrim", as J. Gordon Holt called it) you are trying to rise above. Transparency can and h... | |
| The Aaron Copland / Bob Dylan connection Yup @jafant, I put it on my Christmas list for the sisters. I’m so backlogged with CDs and LPs waiting for their first spin that I can wait. I have the original LP, the version with back-cover liner notes by Pete Hamill. | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. @krelldreams, Conrad-Johnson uses the 12AU7 in their pre-amps, so I’ll guess that’s what you have. CJ products are considered to have a "warmer" sonic character than those of other companies. Some like and want that in their system, others want a ... | |
| Tubes with Infinity IRS Betas One tube amp designed specifically for problematic low impedance loudspeakers is the Music Reference RM-200. It even has a 1 ohm tap! 100w/ch from a pair of KT-88 or 6550 tubes/ch. | |
| soundstage question The op doesn't need to deal with much floor, ceiling, or sidewall reflections---the ET LFT-8's are line source dipole loudspeakers. Behind the ET's is a different story, of course. One thing you could try is a pair of 2' X 4' floor-standing diffus... |