carlsbad2
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| Leave it on? You don't want to leave a class A amp on. heat kills. Many amps now have a standby feature that keeps the circuit warmed up to the point that the designer thinks is appropriate and ready to go, Jerry | |
| SoCal 2025 @coronado2 I’d be glad to but don’t know how to contact you. | |
| Seeking horn array loudspeakers with a maximum price of $17,500.00 per pair. Not sure why you want horns with your powerful amp. In your price range, horns can be difficult. Jerry | |
| SoCal 2025 Well at shows the music gets played louder to compete with the room next door. Even if you want to play it quieter in your room, patrons come in with their ears blown out from the previous room and ask for it to go higher. Many of us wish we cou... | |
| Best way to dampen a micro-vibrating Printed Circuit Board inside an amp? Thanks! As a debate about whether these vibrations exist at all seems to be brewing, I’ll throw out my solution: avoid amps with printed circuit boards. | |
| Best way to dampen a micro-vibrating Printed Circuit Board inside an amp? Thanks! How did you identify a problem with microvibrations? | |
| Upgrade from Innuos - Endgame server The problem with any endgame is that things keep improving. It's a journey. I replaced my innuous zenith mk3 with Grimm mu1 and never looked back. the next step is the Taiko XDMS which is IMHO a new level, not just the evolustion of the cur... | |
| Sellers Beware Sorry you were disappointed. Hope you feel better after posting this. | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? crossovers are the dirty little secret of most if not all speaker manufacturers. Even expensive speakers often have low quality components in the crossovers. The crossover is invisible inside the speaker, seldom discussed by buyers, and not gene... | |
| Is quadamping possible? solution in search of a problem. | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes Realize that all of these problems you describe are non-problems for business/banking/national defense who use bitperfect algorithms to confirm the file recieved is exactly, to the bit, identical to the file sent. Now on streaming, we can't use s... | |
| Speakers sound too bright. So you are getting a lot of advice that your speakers shouldn't be too bright. I have a couple of thought. 1. I have seen silver or silver plated speaker cables make the sound bright. 2. You should confirm all the bass drivers are working. p... | |
| Suggestions for Preamp Tubes That is an excellent tube for rolling. Do some reading and try a lot of different tubes. there ae lost of options, all with a different sound. | |
| How remove odor from interconnect? Is it the aging elastomer smell that is soetimes sour almost like vomit that I have sometimes found on aging camping gear pulled out of storage? If so, good luck. My guess is they will likely end up in the trash. I would try afternoon sunshine (o... | |
| The new dCS Varese DAC...it is so good that all others are now relegated to history?? I’m not prone to the hyperbole of a reviewer, or even an enthusiastic forum member. I recently read a review of a pink fuse on another forum that made it sound like THE most imporant piece of his system. Speakers, amps and source no longer matter.... |