boomerbillone
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| life span/failure rate of filter capacitors? Since you are blowing fuses, the amp is pulling a lot of current during warmup time. If the filte r capacitors are the cause, then the rectifier tube (if the amp has one) is being stressed an could be damaged. Certainly, replace the caps and the r... | |
| Primaluna. Evo 400 - bass issues Hello jazzjunkie80923. Put both speakers side by side - almost touching. Do you have bass? If No, check those speaker wires again. Are both woofers moving? If Yes, the placement is the problem and the room is causing the problem, As a double check... | |
| Bob Carver tube amps Hello silverfoxvtx1800. It is easy to knock a product you have never heard or never owned. Carver is so controversial folks love him or they hate him. He pioneered open baffel speakers with lots of woofers and long flat panel tweeters, itsy bitsy ... | |
| Why are there so many wooden box speakers out there? Hello Kenjit. Wooden box speakers are traditional, easy to pack and ship, easy to place in a home (flat bottoms), easy to put things on (flat tops), easy to mount speakers (the actual drivers + crossover parts) in (flat fronts and backs), easy to... | |
| What exactly is a speaker box sound? Listen to some Magnepans or Martin Logan electrostats playing music you know well. Your music, not someone else's. Take a CD or thumb drive with you. Listen carefully. If you don't hear a better version of you music, stick to what you have and be ... | |
| I need an Audio Detective Hello jr96aolcom. It is possible your two devices share a code your remote control is sending. Put a piece of opaque tape over one of the two units and see what happens. If not successful, put the tape on the other unit and try again. No improveme... | |
| How crucial is the quality of a digital cable? Hello motown-l. The cable quality is critical. Yes, it's "just" ones and zeros. But how distinct is the difference between them? How "fast" is the cable? Is the difference between them quick, clean, and sharp? You hear about "jitter." That is time... | |
| Zavfino Majestic USB Cable Hello davidvanderbilt. The Zavfino is the best USB cable I have. It beats Wireworld and Furuteck in my systems. More detailed and refined sound. You can hear that the wall behind a particular orchestra is made of brick. | |
| Open Baffle Experience Try it! You'll probably like it. Placement in the room can be critical. My best system is the Linkwitz 521 with one amp per speaker, eight amps in total. Very easy to build; no annoying joints to master! Enjoy the music. | |
| Why do Tube Amps sound more romantic v SS amps Sadly, the warmpth of the tube amp is caused by the 2nd order harmonic distortion the tube amps tend to produce. You will notice that often, tube amp's power rating re rated at 1% to 10% harmonic distortion. It gives a richer, more "warm" sound th... | |
| Do I need a streamer? It seems to me that the issue revolves around the ownership of the music. Streaming gives you access to an enormous library of music - almost everything ever recorded! Streaming enthusiasts are often not interested in owning physical media, since ... | |
| Question About Capacitor Upgrade in Tube Amp Hello calieng! Nice photography! That cap looks pretty good. It's purpose is to keep high frequency noise from riding out on the B+ line. I would add a .01 capacitor in parallel as well. Keep the leads as short as possible. I'd use the fanciest ... | |
| Experienced only: What have you done with room correction? I am using 3 different DSP technologies and they all improved the sound in the rooms in which they are used. I use: whatever Emotiva offers in the MC 700, whatever Integra offers in its receivers, and whatever DSpeaker (model 2 or some such) uses.... | |
| A Question About Time Alignment Hello Paul6001. All the sound waves move at the same speed. The wavelengths vary with frequency, but not the speed of their travel. We are trying to reproduce music that arrived sometime in the past on the diaphragm of a microphone. We do not wan... | |
| Does Equipment Break In, or Does Our Hearing Adjust? Hello tcotruvo. Equipment, cables, speakers, etc do "break in." While Nordost uses 8 or 9 conductors for each leg of a cable to a speaker, you can buy 50 conductor ribbon cable ($0.65/foot) and have 25 silver plated conductors in each leg of "sp... |