boomerbillone
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| Can I bi-amp my speakers with two different amps? Just to save you from blowing something up, be sure the amps are not connected to a common ground at the speaker end. Remove any connection at the speaker that ties the woofer and tweeter terminals together in ANY way. Keep them totally separate. ... | |
| What could cause this amp to fail? I had a problem similar to yours in a church auditorium. It turned out to be poorly soldered wires inside a phone pug with an all metal body. A strand of "hot" wire had come loose and touched the metal body of the phone plug used to connect the am... | |
| Best small, desktop speakers, $500 or under (new or used) You can easily build "the best small speaker I've ever heard" according to one Stereophile reviewer. It uses the SEAS tiny L12RE-XFC co-ax driver.I built the cabinet recommended by SEAS and put the speaker into it. The speaker itself was $165 o... | |
| Need speaker cable How about 65 CENTS per foot? Why pay huge $$ for cables? You can buy 50 conductor flat grey cable, used in computer systems, for $65 for a 100 foot roll from surplus outlets. There is a certain well regarded company selling flat cable for big buck... | |
| What Do You Think . . . and How Does It Work? I have built the Plutos, LXminis, and the 521-4s. Love them! The Plutos & Lxminis will "disappear" in the room. The tweeters for the Plutos are getting hard to find (I understand) but Madisound will have them if anyone does, also the complete ... | |
| How many people here generally buy used? I buy Used, Demos, Blemished, B stock whenever I can. It's like cars. I always buy last years models in December or January when they are desperate to get rid of them. When the Supremo Master Super model comes out, buy last year's Supremo Master ... | |
| Best bookshelf loudspeakers under 10,000 for the pair Check out the Trenner and Friedl "Sun" speakers; under $4000. Ken Micallef of Stereophile said ". . .the best small speaker experience I've ever had." See "stereophile.com/content/trenner-friedl-sun-loudspeaker." I bought the SEAS tiny co-ax driv... | |
| Analogue question Hello Wazoo. With time, the connections to the phono cartridge itself can oxidize. Slide all four of the connections to the cartridge on and off 10 times (one at a time) and see if that helps. Replacing the cables from the turntable to the amplif... | |
| switching between two amplifiers; issues of power Hello Listening99. Power is a funny thing. The numbers don't fit into our brains very well. If you've watched Vu meters while music is playing, you know a 10 db jump is not all that impressive. The loudness difference between 1/10 of a watt and ... | |
| power cord directionality Is the preamp working properly? Does it sound fine? If so, don't worry about it. The wire doesn't care. Most commentators didn't know it was a wire between an outboard power supply and the preamp. So it IS supplying DC. All power cords going into ... | |
| Better amp or better tubes? Hello Emil! If your amp uses a 12AX7 input tube, change it to a New Old Stock Telefunken 12AX7. I have a 300B tube amp, too and the new input tube made a remarkable. The distributor of my amp (Ele-Kit TU-8600B) says the other tubes don't make en... | |
| More Power or use subwoofer to boost bass for music Hi xcool! Definitely a subwoofer. Realize that 250 watts Is only 10 db louder than 25 watts. EVEN IF YOU WENT TO 750 WATTS (eek!) it would only sound 6 db louder. The problem is not power, it's room placement and calling in a specialist - the su... | |
| Should I be able to hear a 4Hz difference in my speakers? Hi traceyc. If the recording engineer didn't give it to you, you won't hear anything. Only organs (pipe) are going to give you much down that low. One octave below 32 Hz would be 16 Hz; so musically a 28 Hz note would be in the "La - Ti" range on... | |
| Efficient, affordable speakers for SETs? I recently, as an experiment, hooked up a pair of Golden Ear Triton 1s to my 9 wpc Elekit TU-8600R (300B output tubes). I discovered they worked beautifully! Plus the powered subwoofer sections really helped out! It tuns out that the Triton 1s are... | |
| Advise on Long Phono Cable run Hello JagJag. You probably know that very long microphone cables are common at performance venues. Good quality microphone cables are not expensive especially when compared to some of the fancy "audiophile" cables being sold today. If you can sol... |