bombaywalla
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| Anybody heard or use the CAT Renaissance? thanx Janeb! | |
| Why are most High End Amps class A but it's Achilles heel is not that it's Class B . . . but it has a quasi-complementary (all-NPN) output stage. The reason for this is that when these amplifiers were designed (in the late-1960s), complementary NPN/PNP power transistor pairs simpl... | |
| Anybody heard or use the CAT Renaissance? No, but I have his older Signature Mk3 version preamp for quite some time. I really like its sonics. So, I can just imagine how much better the Renaissance must be.A friend has just received a CAT renaissance...I was blown away by how good it soun... | |
| Why are most High End Amps class A Most of you are thinking of 1 type of class-A power amp - the type that Krell, Plinius, Threshold, Forte, Sugden have made/are making. This type of class-A power amp does dissipate a lot of heat as it is biased to run full power bias current all t... | |
| Digital cable optimal length? How come NONE of you have referred to this article which seems to give some reasons for using 1.5m length for digital cables???http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue14/spdif.htm | |
| Copper Sleeve over IEC Ozzy, Thanks a lot for the website links. Indeed it was too bad @ the local home improvement stores.Undertow, thanks for the detailed explanation - looks like a 1-3/8" reducer to 1-1/4" will do the job. I do have a local ACE hardware store that I ... | |
| Copper Sleeve over IEC 03-17-09: Rx8manGood news Ozzy and tweakers, Went to Lowes, bought a 1-1/2"x 1-1/4" copper coupler-reducer stock #89479 (smaller end fits closer to the IEC end plugging into component) $3.47 YTMV (your taxes may vary) you lucky so-so Rx8man! I wen... | |
| Wadia 170iTransport - To mod, or not to mod? Sakahara,Why not replace that 'jittery' TI chip [PCM270X] then, or is that what the ASI mod does?Ach, can't do that! the whole 170i is built around the PCM270X IC. You remove this IC & you basically have nothing! I believe that the better thin... | |
| Tube Amp for Green Mountain Audio Callisto but I have owned a set of AES Sixpacs and thought they sounded great. You can run these amps with zero-negative feedback. They only have a couple of drawbacks - they produce a bit of heat and with 12 EL-34 power tubes, they ain't cheap to re-tube.... | |
| Wadia 170iTransport - To mod, or not to mod? SteveN,Appreciate your feedback re. the problem being specific to the TI PCM270X chipset.Usarmyvet91,Just so that you know my explanation above was in response to your following comment: 03-19-09: Usarmyvet91: Noshortcuts your right the couple of ... | |
| Wadia 170iTransport - To mod, or not to mod? Noshortcuts, Usarmyvet91OK, here is how I understand it (an expert in this matter is free to correct me) - any product that uses the TI PCM27XX 'stereo DAC with USB interface' IC (the Wadia 170i uses the TI2705) inherently suffers from high(er) ji... | |
| American-made integrated tube amplifiers Here's one that straddles the line - Jolida 502B, 302B. Designed in Maryland but manufactured in China.I used to own the Jolida 502A & I liked it quite a bit. 60W/ch in ultra-linear mode with plenty of gain to drive a reasonably difficult load... | |
| Wadia 170iTransport - To mod, or not to mod? I posted this tear-down thread from computeraudiophile.com that Usarmyvet91 is referring to in the other 'msb ilink vs. Wadia 170 ipd dock' thread. I'll post it again here for the benefit others:http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/Teardown-W... | |
| msb Ilink vs. wadia 170i ipd docks To all forum members who have vigourously participated in this thread:I got tired waiting for Justin to provide some feedback re. the 170i Transport jitter which he was supposed to get from Wadia. I was surfing the 'net & I found this info re.... | |
| Best Solid State for Avalon Isis Rtn1,re. the Karan 1200 amp 16A fuses - *if* the amp is 1200W/ch into 8 Ohms (I assumed from the model # that it's 1200W/ch into 8 Ohms. I could be way off the mark!) then it seems that it has a +/- 98V rail. It also seems that it could be drawing... |