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Responses from cleeds
| Basic Interconnect Question "Is it possible to buy an interconnect that would be unbalanced on one end and balanced on the other end so that I could connect to the balanced inputs on my Coda CS amp? "In a word, no. What Al wrote is correct.A signal is either balanced, or not... | |
| Headphone question mapman "Why not just record with no EQ and have a recording that is same as original? If source is Ortofon cart recording should be no brighter or different than otherwise, right?Or if the cart is too bright to start, maybe something can be done... | |
| Is there advantage to balanced phono-preamp czarivey "The signal from phono cartridge actually comes BALANCED. Each channel has +, - and ground.all you need to do is separate ground between 2 XLR connectors."There's nothing magical about XLR connectors. You can maintain balanced operation... | |
| Is there advantage to balanced phono-preamp lewm "CLeeds, Please note that I used the word "usually" when describing the cable needed. You've pointed out the cases where one would do other than the usual."Oh yes, duly noted. Fair enough." The user should beware of using an RCA-terminate... | |
| Is there advantage to balanced phono-preamp lewm " ... You get a bit more gain in balanced mode ..." If you’re using truly balanced, differential amplifiers, you can pick up 6 dB of gain going with balanced connections. That’s a lot of "free gain" when we’re talking about a phono-level sign... | |
| Has anyone heard the new North American products preamp and amp? roger_paul " ... I was mostly trying to separate the phase based errors that are found in crossovers and the phase characteristics of IC's with regard to affecting overall tonal balance of a presentation. Like the highs traveling on the outsid... | |
| Has anyone heard the new North American products preamp and amp? tbg O " ... Cleeds, you are like the audience on Hyde Park Corner in London. You get your kicks out of shouting nonsense about any topic ..."If you're going to accuse me of "shouting nonsense," please provide some examples - on more than one top... | |
| Vibration Control for Lightweight Tube Components It sounds like a microphonic tube. No preamp should be so sensitive to vibration that merely touching its shelf generates sound through the speakers. | |
| Is there advantage to balanced phono-preamp There seems to be some confusion here.A phono cartridge is inherently balanced. That is, it has separate hot and neutrals for left and right, and one shield. There are no better places to run balanced connections than from your phono cartridge int... | |
| Has anyone heard the new North American products preamp and amp? roger_paul " I know how difficult it is to see what I'm talking about believe me - this is why it took years to figure out ..."I think you are still trying to figure it out. That's why you haven't been able to explain it so that anyone here other ... | |
| Power Re Generator capacity questions Amplifiers have varying degrees of efficiency; there's no strict correlation between current draw and output power. You'll need to add up the current draw of each device that you plan to plug into the power regenerator to ensure you're not overloa... | |
| Synergy with matching cables? This is a thorny question. Some will agree that there is synergy in brand consistency. Others will contend that the cables will make no difference at all, unless one is defective.With cables especially, there's no reason to purchase without a mone... | |
| Tonearm recommendation rauliruegas " ...cleeds: fabricated?. That's why some of you can understand or just are against my opinions: because I had and have experiences you don't live yet."Sorry, Raul. You don't know what you're talking about. First, I'm not against y... | |
| Tonearm recommendation fleib " ... Raul, Nice story, but it's a little hard to believe. You and your scientist friend are in a lab playing records and watching the stylus with an electron microscope? This was at normal speed and slow motion..." It's obviously a fab... | |
| Phono pre "Break-In" process? Necessary? roger_paul " ... in order to have speed variations on the turntable the are like those found in amplifier, your TT speed (33 rpm) would have to speed up to 66 rpm in order to produce a harmonic of what ever is in the groove. Amplifiers that ... |