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| TRANSFORMER FOR JAPANESE DOMESTIC EQUIPMENT lucidear " ... here is what I know ... if your home has 120v lines and your equipment are 230v the trans then needs to juice up the currents to feed your equipment, so if there are any issues with degradation of sound quality it would be in th... | |
| 15A vs. 20A power cord questions asp307 OP " ... Regarding a twisted pair or standard cable to link the breaker to the outlet, any advantages or is it all about the grounding?"I do not think that twisted pair is code, at least not in the US. | |
| 15A vs. 20A power cord questions gs5556 " ... If your equipment -- like most equipment -- has a 15-amp connector (C-14 receptacle) then you cannot use a listed 20-amp cord because it will not fit."Not necessarily - see the post from jea48. Some manufacturers use 20A cords on 15... | |
| Tonearm recommendation analogluvr" ... And with regards to rauls comments about the ET's bass, if it is set up properly there is no lack of low frequency information. In fact there is hardly any added extra resonances which I know raul is a huge fan of. Sometimes that... | |
| 15A vs. 20A power cord questions jea48 "As for the current handling ability of a NEMA 5-15P 15 amp plug vs. a NEMA 5-20P 20 amp plug there isn’t any. If you look at the size of the hot and neutral blades they look exactly the same ..."Quite so. But the issue is not the safety o... | |
| 15A vs. 20A power cord questions zephyr24069 " ... If you wind up in a situation where you have either a 15 amp or 20 amp cord you need to use and the component takes the opposite, check out Shunyata's high-end C20C15 or C15C20 converter plugs ... definitely can belong to any m... | |
| 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... |