cfaille
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| Mcintosh with Ayre pre-amp Al, I have currently disconnected my XLR cables and am using my Audioquest Emerald RCAs for now. I have found that this reduces the hiss to tolerable levels. When using XLR cables the gain increases from 4db to 10db using the Ayre preamp, which ma... | |
| Mcintosh with Ayre pre-amp Thanks for the replies. The impedance ratio is the main thing I want to make sure I get right as it seems to be crucial when matching components. Is there an easy way to compute the impedance ratio? I tried searching it but was unsuccessful. The A... | |
| Mcintosh with Ayre pre-amp I would settle with an Ayre V-5xe if I could find a black one for the right price (my preamp is black). However, I think I would rather go with a Mcintosh amp. I've been around Mcintosh equipment pretty much my whole life and love the way their am... | |
| Mcintosh with Ayre pre-amp I meant 200wpc, not 250. | |
| Mcintosh with Ayre pre-amp Klipsch RF7II. Yea they are highly sensitive, but the amps I'm using now are 250wpc and these speakers like power, believe me. 70wpc doesn't cut it. | |
| Mcintosh with Ayre pre-amp I guess it would help if i told you what Mcintosh power amps I'm interested in. That would be the Mc 252 and Mc 302. | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters Dtc, I ended up not going into the dealer. I got lazy and didn't feel like driving up to Seattle in the traffic. I'm probably going to end up buying a Mcintosh MC252 or Ayre V-5xe and sell the Emotivas. Before I dish out the big dollars, I might t... | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters I'm taking the Ayre in to the hifi store on Saturday and will try hooking it up to some of their gear just to make sure there is nothing wrong with my preamp. While I'm there, I might as well demo it with some other power amps to get an idea of ho... | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters Just tried it with the Klipsch KG4 and it the tweeters hissed just as much. I never had this problem before using my Marantz 2270 as a preamp with the Emotivas. Why is this Ayre preamp brining on the hiss? >_ | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters You're a smart guy Al. It's been a while since I have worked with that kind of math. It seems like there must be more to it than the gain on these amps that's causing the hiss. There are plenty of people out there running Klipsch with Emotivas/Mci... | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters I can hear the hiss 7 ft away from the speakers :( Anyone want to buy my amps? | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters Id rather have too much power than not enough. The specs for my speakers indicate that the power handling is 250W RMS. I don't want my equipment to have to work too hard to get some serious sound out of them. Al, how do you calculate the reduction... | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters Well it looks like I'm stuck with the hiss for now. It won't cause any damage to my equipment right? I'm going to keep my eyes out for another power amp though. Considering the Mcintosh MC252 if I can find one for the right price. | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters The RCA cables were actually emitting a humming noise when I connected them in place of the XLR's. They have never done that before. I don't have any other amps to put in place of the monos. I know somone with McIntosh MC-501's mono blocks that ar... | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters When hitting the mute button the hiss doesn't change. Neither does selecting a different input or increasing/decreasing the volume. I tried plugging the Ayre in directly into the wall instead of being connected to the Panamax surge protector, but ... |