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| How do you high pass your main speakers? If you have preamp outputs and amp inputs, you can use this inexpensive device to act as a very configurable electronic crossover: Dayton Audio DSP-408. Get the Bluetooth dongle with it. I hear it’s sound can be improved by using a 15V power br... | |
| Why are these called 5 way binding posts? I count four! Great little conversation you got here. My 2 cents is the alligator clip is a red herring. The double banana is the 5th way, or was until the EU got involved. | |
| Suggestions for Phono Preamp I just got a Pro-Ject PhonoBox DS3. It has balanced and unbalanced I/O, front panel switches for Gain, fixed or continuously variable R, and C. Totally convenient for all parameters. I’m using it balanced in from a new Thorens TD1600 with a new ... | |
| SPDIF splitter Bbag20, I am old, that’s your coot. In my career in audio I had the reputation of being a bit of a stickler for facts and unsympathetic to bs. That’s your crusty! | |
| Digital And Analogue Cables My Audio education taught me that a “digital coaxial” cable was just another name for the once commonly used “composite video” cable. Both operated in the same frequency spectrum and both were 75 Ohms. The chief Monster marketed the exact same cab... | |
| SPDIF splitter Gefen, Atlona, Binary are brands considered to be reliable. Fiio is a cheaper version also well regarded. | |
| SPDIF splitter You don’t want a splitter, you want a switch. Or you want a coax to optical converter. Whether either device will degrade the signal…that’s up to your ears to decide. The “everything matters” crowd will say it inevitably does. I would try the co... | |
| Shure Bulletin (written in 1954) Shure later realized that their position of dominance in the US market gave them the standing to propound that “trackability” at minimum tracking force was the goal of high quality record playback. This notion was not universally accepted by peer ... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... I frequently attend concerts at Boston Symphony Hall given by our outstanding second tier orchestra, the Boston Philharmonic. My series tickets are in the second row behind the mid-hall aisle just off the center. Superb seats for a mix of hall amb... | |
| What record cleaner is the most bang for the buck?? I use an Allsop Orbitrac for dirty records, and an Audioquest conductive carbon fiber for light dust. Last stylus cleaner and Stylast applied with an old Discwasher SC-1 for the tip. The whole kit for well under a century note. No electricity an... | |
| Magnepan Upgrades, Silver and New Crossovers! Even though Magnepan emerged from the primordial soup of early 70s HiFi virtually joined at the hip with Audio Research Corp., Wendell Diller, who helped guide the company from the getgo, is a man of the people. His world view is closer to Hubert ... | |
| If I wanted to make my own speaker cables, is this a good choice for wire? As interconnects, why would you opt for side-by-side 16 ga. wire? Are you unaware that opens up a world of RFI/EMI pickup? The Jupiter wire is twisted…a better choice for unbalanced ICs. For speaker wire, the Dueland might be fine at lengths up... | |
| The best part about MQA bankruptcy.. This legal proceeding may render MQA moot…while we are at the pun fest. | |
| Amp Warranty Repair - What's an acceptable timescale for turnaround? There’s an awful lot of generalization going on here, and not a lot of facts to work with. What product for example? We had a situation recently with an internationally respected speaker brand that was unable to supply parts for a speaker model s... | |
| Noise inside speaker cabinet when moving ? I don’t know these speakers, but on many speakers using PCB xovers, nylon zip ties are used to moor the heavy inductors, and hot glue is added to further damp potential movement. If these have point to point wiring and no PCB, then hot glue may be... |