cakyol
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| Are there any tube amps that don't give off any--- Tubes have to heat their filament to be operational. That is their principle of operation. It is like the car engine which relies on an exothermic reaction to do its job. The amount of filament current may be less in some more modern designs but e... | |
| Advice on best mid priced MM cartridge choice for Rega P3 (2016) Nagaoka MP 200/300 | |
| Still confused about clipping after reading all the articles. Altho what I said above is true, I want to mention also that you may be lucky and the capacitors in the speaker crossover MAY protect against DC reaching the tweeter voice coils. But I would not ever rely on that premise just in case. | |
| Amp repair cost — is this right? Large caps are expensive. I would guess the cost of the components alone would be 300-400 bucks.Changing caps is a very labor intensive task. Every board must be disconnected, unscrewed and the old caps must be de-soldered and new ones soldered ... | |
| Still confused about clipping after reading all the articles. Clipping happens when you drive a transistor to a point where it wants to swing to a voltage higher than what your power supply can provide. It happens when you drive the amp with too much input signal.It has NOTHING to do with how many watts your... | |
| Cartridge recommendation please... Nagaoka MP110 or MP200 | |
| Can I use 24 gauge speaker cable? It is a little too thin. Probably not suitable for an amp with more than 10 watts/channel output.When the wire is too thin, its resistance will be relatively higher and its stray capacitance tends also to be higher. This would limit the current fl... | |
| Filter capacitance-how does it relate to amplifier performance? First, I STRONGLY recommend you read this:https://sound-au.com/power-supplies.htmHere is the summary:Filter capacitance has roughly 2 functions:- It smooths the waveform from a jagged form to a smoother one. This is called the ripple voltage. Th... | |
| Problem with phono stage I hope you are not connecting your MP110 to the MC gain settings....It is an MM cartridge and should be connected to the MM setting.Try reducing the gain one step at a time. | |
| Dynamic range - effect on different speaker cables - even very high quality ones Now here is some REAL reading, which is written without violating the rules of physics. Audiofools.... sorry audiophiles, please read:https://sound-au.com/cables.htm | |
| Best 40 to 50k used speakers Bowers & Wilkins Nautilus. | |
| Any electronic geniuses here? Would it not be wiser (and maybe even cheaper) to buy an MC phono preamp that you can directly connect to, instead of going thru a transformer ? | |
| Dynamic range - effect on different speaker cables - even very high quality ones What the heck does "cable saturation" mean ?Hocus pocus again LOL | |
| Phono preamp worth it with MM cartridges? Unless your amplifier already has an in built phono stage, you MUST get a phono preamp in order to be able to listen to anything off a phono cartridge, regardless of whether it is MM or MC.So it is not a matter of whether it improves the sound, it... | |
| During this isolation, I would be interested in suggestions of great movies you like. Killing of a sacred deer. |