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| How many forms of Jitter can you identify? 07-19-11: Ericjcabreramy buddy has a furutech demag that we use in addition to cleaning discs, and both of us, on both of our systems, can hear sonic improvements, sometimes significant on some cd's. how demagnetizing cd's affects player performan... | |
| How many forms of Jitter can you identify? I'm absolutely positive that it isn't possible to apply a product to a CD that will have any effect on the digital clock on the CD player. I'm also skeptical that it can make any difference in how the CD player spins the disk so how does it reduce... | |
| Odyssey Mono Extremes SE Which input to use? once you receive your Odyssey Audio monos just unscrew & remove the top lid & take a look inside to see how the RCA & XLR inputs are connected. I'm reasonably confident that the XLR connector is connected to the RCA connector with a sh... | |
| Interconnects: solid or hollow core wire? 07-18-11: TrebejoA good compromise is bubble core. Electrons love a good bubble bath.Trebejo (Threads | Answers | This Thread)07-18-11: PmboydI'd like to hear from the electrons themselves, please, about whether they like a good bubble bath or not... | |
| What is Phase Angle and Shifting? Bifwynne, I posted my response in the other thread where you asked the question 1st but I'll post it here again:>http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?fcabl&1310053833&openflup&20&4#20 | |
| Speaker Placement Nirvana Grimace,I do not know exactly what was happening - my guess is that @ 4' from the wall behind the speakers, speaker must have been in a peak node of a bass standing wave (all rooms have standing waves & their freq differs based on their/room d... | |
| How Much Difference Does a More Powerful Amp Make? 06-23-11: RaquelBombaywalla:I was trying to keep it simple to make a point.ok, thanx for the clarification. I now know where you were coming from.Most amps, powerful or not, have anywhere from three to five gain stages (very few have two), OK, if ... | |
| How Much Difference Does a More Powerful Amp Make? 06-22-11: Raquel......First, it is very difficult to control a high-powered circuit without global feedback and virtually every high-powered amplifier therefore uses it. .....Raquel, I believe that this is *not* a true statement. I think that you ... | |
| How Much Difference Does a More Powerful Amp Make? 06-21-11: PaniSince you are moving within the same make and lineup of the amp you will probably not have "inferior" watts.not necessarily true, AP. the bigger amp *could* have inferior watts; it could have superior watts. It's 50-50 without knowin... | |
| Nagra plp versus CAT ultimate mk 2 Andromedaaudiojust FYI: the phone stage tubes are V1-V5 & they are on the left side/left half of the preamp (left as you look @ the face-plate). The CAT factory does a very stringent job in selecting tubes for the phono stage - only those ultr... | |
| 5 legendary speakers? 06-06-11: Thesoundhouse1) Apogee Full Range2) Apogee Duetta Signature3) Magico Mini II4) Avalon Eidalon Diamonds5) Magneplanar 1.7sThese are 5 speakers that have never failed impress when set up for my clients.What they do they do extremely right.... | |
| SummerTime and Amp Heat 05-30-11: TripperNo one seems to have mentioned the associated load on the amp and its output stage[s]. As a corollary, one sometimes sees ads that say "drove my Thiels/Apogees/'stats with aplomb". That's all good and well but it would seem that d... | |
| SummerTime and Amp Heat 05-30-11: HifihvnThe links are to long to post. Just Google capacitor life shortened by heat.True Hifihvn that cap life is shortened very quickly by excessive heat BUT.............just because the heatsink is getting hot does *not* mean that the p... | |
| SummerTime and Amp Heat see if you can find out what at temperature the specific B&K model is supposed to run - if possible. Then make sure that you are operating it under those specified conditions. For ex, many of Pass' designs (specifically the older Thresholds) w... | |
| SummerTime and Amp Heat 05-30-11: WilllandI too run a fan to draw heat from my B&K EX4420. My amp is the older model of your Ref2220. It draws 75 amps of current peak to peak .......Noooooo! it does not draw 75A p-p all the time! The amp specs might say that it is ca... |