bill_k
Responses from bill_k
| cart height It will make a difference, but how significant is hard to predict. If your arm allows for height adjustment to set the VTA, try lowering the arm to reduce sibilance. | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil DAC ?? Winson - also some good info on MQA available here, although not as extensive as in the new issue of TAS. | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil DAC ?? BTW, an update on Schiit Yggdrasil's availability was just posted, and promised to be less than one week from now!!! | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil DAC ?? Winson - in the new May/June 2015 issue of The Absolute Sound, on pages 50 to 60. Quite impressive! | |
| VPI 3-D tonearm With all due respect to Harry, while the resonance level of the 3D arm may be relatively low, every arm and cartridge combination will still have a resonant frequency. The total effective mass of a tonearm and cartridge will determine where that f... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil DAC ?? Sorry, but there are no tubes in the Yggy. | |
| Clayton Audio Class A amps. Need amp advice Since your Bricasti M1 DAC is a fully balanced design as well, I think it would be foolish to use the RCA outputs and an adapter to feed the Clayton amps. If you already have expensive RCA cables I would recommend selling them and getting similar ... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil DAC ?? I know where you're coming from! It's expected that the initial production run will quickly sell out. I was all set to purchase one, but now with the reports of Meridian's MQA performance I'm reluctant to invest in any new DAC unless it includes t... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil DAC ?? It's currently in production, and the latest expectation for its release is within a couple of weeks. | |
| Increase total Speaker Impedance Question I did make an error in my initial calculations above resulting in the discrepancy, and Al's math is of course correct. I believe that the primary difference in sound quality will be due to a loss of damping factor from the amp when driving the add... | |
| Increase total Speaker Impedance Question The 200 watt power rating of those resistors should be sufficient, but you will then have 3/4.16 or ~72% of your available power being dissipated by the resistors. Only the balance, ~28% of the total power will be available to drive the speakers. | |
| Clayton Audio Class A amps. Need amp advice I believe Zd542's post was suggesting that at those prices making a trip to hear the amps would be justified, whether possible by either car or plane. | |
| Increase total Speaker Impedance Question In my response above I was assuming that the four speakers each have identical impedance values. Thanks to Al for kindly confirming my input, as I consider him to be the true authority on any technical issues. | |
| Increase total Speaker Impedance Question If you combine four speakers by connecting two in parallel and two in series, you will end up with the total impedance equaling the impedance of a single speaker. You can see this by using this calculator and selecting "2 series and 2 parallel" an... | |
| Clayton Audio Class A amps. Need amp advice Fsmithjack - With all due respect, you need to keep in mind that Class A operation is just one operating specification of a given amplifier design. I have found myself caught up with this in the past, searching for a product that meets a checklist... |