cakyol
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| Speakers Nominal Power handling/Amplifier When you are playing with maximum limits, here are the rough over engineered rules:1) Use PEAK power handling value of a speaker and the RMS value of your amplifier. 2) An amplifier should typically be rated at an RMS power value at least about 1.... | |
| Phono preamp worth it with MM cartridges? MC cartridges are extremely low signal output (less than 1 mv) cartridges and therefore need very expensive front end phono preamplifiers. Inherently, their signal to noise ratios are usually worse than MM (3 - 6mv) cartridges due to this reason (... | |
| Which integrated amplifier . First, very sorry to hear about your fight with cancer. Wish you all the best.Secondly, what is your price range ?Third, if you are thinking about $10k - $12k there is an unbeatable amp, no other amp will even remotely come close. It is the Pass L... | |
| Replacing Amp Caps Here are the MOST important factors:0- Do NOT skimp on price, buy the BEST if you want to use them forever (relative).1- The higher the voltage the rating, the safer the bet. This also increases the ripple current rating which makes it more resili... | |
| Subwoofers down-firing or side-firing? Why? In my case (Martin Logan), I did not notice any sound difference so I opted for safety and I use them down firing to reduce any cleaning and/or small children accidents which may happen and destroy the woofer. | |
| A Couple Little Things I'm Wondering About @unreceiveddogma +1LOL | |
| Power Conditioners @dannad,All large electrolytics are usually supplanted on their side with smaller hi grade mica capacitors around 0.1 -> 1uF to short out the hi frequency noise.By rectification, I meant to say the peak value of any variation on the txformer o... | |
| Power Conditioners @rixthetrickTake a look at a PROPER power supply for an amplifier here:https://www.ti.com/lit/an/snaa057c/snaa057c.pdf?ts=1601059701990&ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww...And another one:https://elektrotanya.com/bryston_4b_sst_amplifier_schemat... | |
| A Couple Little Things I'm Wondering About cable lifters: snake oilRCA shorting plugs: will protect against noise interference that may possibly occur at the unused rca terminals. Shorting them guarantees no signal, noise or otherwise will feed into your device. | |
| Better Power Supply for a Router? Here is a good table that gives all the typical cable limits (towards the end of the page):https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/connectivity/ethernet-ieee-802-3/cables-types-pinout-cat-...I am not exactly sure what "stock cable" for your rou... | |
| Power Conditioners again. Snake oil. 99% of electronics will already rectify/filter 99% of the noise out of the PSU dc lines reducing down to a miniscule ripple. You will not hear any difference. İf you are hearing a difference, you must live somewhere where your po... | |
| Power Conditioners You do NOT need them, unless you live somewhere with a lot of lightning strikes. Other than that, there is no need. The filtering in the PSU of your devices are more than adequate. The rest is mostly snake oil or the improvement is so insignifican... | |
| Better Power Supply for a Router? I work in the networking industry (Cisco 17 years, Broadcom 3 years), it is ALL snake oil. The power supply it came with is adequate. | |
| I blew up my receiver. Now what? You pretty much destroyed it.You need a step down transformer next time, unless the device supports multi voltages. | |
| Best options for active speakers $4k or below? GoldenEar Triton 2+, with 1200 (probably peak, which is approx 600W RMS) watt internal amplifier.brand new at 4k/pair:https://www.audioadvice.com/goldenear-triton-two-plus-floorstanding-tower-speaker.html?gclid=CjwKCAj... |