carlsbad
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| Why Are We Breaking Our Brains? There are "master" audiophiles too. but just like master sommeliers, master audiophiles don't spend time chatting with random guys on the internet. Imagine a master sommelier's response when @jasonbourne52 responded to his thread that there is... | |
| STREAMER Larger power cables are most important on an amp but I run 12 awg to all my components. cheap insurance. Jerry | |
| Are Cardas Parsec cables Overkill for Zen Stream? No such thing as an overkill on quality....now price, that may be a different matter. | |
| 2000s Home Theater I see you just joined. You'll get answers here but this isn't an HT forum. The focus here is on high end 2 channel sound. Some guys have both. | |
| HT Sound quality - tube versus solid state amplification @2psyop I looked for something in your post that I agreed with but found nothing. If you think tubes can't be dynamic, you should listen to a better system. only very high power tube systems are heat problems. Frankly, they are an aberratio... | |
| HT Sound quality - tube versus solid state amplification I use my tube amp for 2 channel sound AND for the front 2 speakers of my HT system. In the HT system the pre-out for the front 2 speakers on my HT reciever drives an input to my tube amp. So I get almost the same great sound I've cultivated fo... | |
| How hot is hot when moving from class a/b to to a or tubes? A lot of the tube amplifiers mentioned in this thread are much more power than you need. 2 wpc will be enough unless you like concert volumes. A 2 wpc tube amp will be almost no heat. Also, my comments above are made without air conditioning. ... | |
| How hot is hot when moving from class a/b to to a or tubes? Not hot at all for the amp you need to drive those speakers. I have 5 tube amps. The smallest ones, 2 wpc EL84, is about 60 watts. My 300b is 150watts, my push pull KT66 is 180 watts. none of those heat up the room. these are measured numbers whi... | |
| DAC failure? SMSL brags about their dual low noise power supplies. In that small box they are almost certainly supercaps. Did it run warm before it failed? I've got $10 on the power supply. | |
| Snap Crackle shuts down my power amp I think eric means the amp. I agree. Do not call an electrician to work on your amp. Jerry | |
| DAC failure? a DAC shouldn't generally get hot. You didn't tell us what DAC it is. I've seen some of the new supercap LPSs run very hot. Perhaps this manufacturer has incorporated a supercap LPS into the DAC. They fail occasionally or maybe more often tha... | |
| Synergistic Research Master Fuse £565 The other day, on one of my amps, the input selector knob became loose. I noted that the setscrew was grabbing the extreme end of the shaft. the knob was too tall in my opinion anyway so I stepped into my shop, put the knob in a collet, fired up t... | |
| Help replacing 8" woofer on Gershman Avant Garde Rx-20 This failure likely reflects more on your amp than your speaker. You can also check your crossover. the fact that 2 drivers are misbehaving might point to the crossover, which would be much easier to find parts to rebuild. Jerry | |
| How to trigger gear that doesn't have a trigger port (?) Leave streamer and DAC on 24/7. | |
| Fremer's Single-leg panel is absolute tweak bs I agree with your strategy. Not sure about the local step down transformer. Do you have an example of one you think is good quality? thanks. |