davehrab
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| Doubling a Set of Speaker Cables I will plead guilty to using a double run or shot gun style speaker cable set up ... I started with a single run of Ridge Street Audio Poiema !!!'s and then added a second set for all the reasons Al mentioned ... lower resistance lower inductance ... | |
| CARY SACD Pro CD skipping Issues Your Cary's skipping problem is most likely being caused by the laser sled ... which is trying to read the spinning disc ... running into a spot of dried up factory lubricant on the laser rails that the laser assembly is traveling on The factor... | |
| Any concerns about using a XLR to RCA adapter at my amplifier RCA input? Looks like the VAC Preamp has a 8 volt output and the Audio Space AS 6M has an input sensitivity of 300 to 600mv ... seems the Pre my over drive the AS6M with it's 8 volt output or you won't be able to use much of the volume control on the VAC Thi... | |
| NHT Placement Help I think the most critical distance or measurement is that the 2.5's .. 2.9's and 3.3's ( which I have ) must be placed at 3 inches from the back wall In this placement the side firing woofers on those models create a corner with the back wall and... | |
| ok im opening pandoras box here.(treatment vs framed wall art) Brightness is a condition that exists in a system when there is excessive treble energy relative to the rest of the audio spectrum ... it is an out of balanced condition that can be caused by either your equipment or generated from your room Digi... | |
| ok im opening pandoras box here.(treatment vs framed wall art) The pictures on your wall are vibrating in response and sympathy to your room's 3 primary resonate frequencies being excited or over pressurized Every room has 3 primary resonate frequencies based on the room's physical dimensions between the para... | |
| What is DC offset on the AC power line? I've seen schematics on the Bryston web site of their big amps and they definitely implement a DC off set circuit ... it's two electrolytic caps in series by passed by a diode bridge ... the caps center the wave and the diodes prevent damage from... | |
| What is DC offset on the AC power line? DC off set is a much bigger problem than most audiophile's realize ... the humming transformers are merely the symptom ... the real deliberating disease is the loss of transformer efficiency DC off set is caused by the half wave bridge rectifiers ... | |
| Cary audio cd303t problems Jake ... If your CD player is skipping intermittently on all types of CD media (regular and SACD) it is most likely due to the laser sled hitting a dried up patch of the factory lubricant on the guide rail that the laser sled travels along The las... | |
| Marantz Pre-Pro Glitch It is most likely what they call a "handshake" issue ... try turning the power on the processor on first and then turn the power on the OPPO on second after the processor is already turned on With the processor turned on first when you turn the OP... | |
| Looking for repair tech in NJ / Meitner This may be the guy you are looking for in NJ it's is a long shot ...Email Bigkidz (Peter) a member here who I believe lives in NJ and builds or repairs preamps Just a long shot | |
| Power Re Generator capacity questions It's very unlikely you will find a 2500w regenerator unless it is a commercial or industrial unit which will be very big .. have a noisy fan and be rather expensive It's very unlikely you will need anywhere near 2500w as all that equipment will no... | |
| Power Cables for Class D Amplifiers Correct me if I am wrong but I believe that class D amps do not have power supply caps used for storage ... so it may behoove users of this class of amp to go to a larger gauge power cord to act as a temporary reservoir on high current demand pas... | |
| Suggest a digital cable- One of the bigger improvements you can make in a Transport/Dac combo is to break the ground plane between the two components so the transport doesn't pollute the dac Here's is a cable designed to do just that ... I think this cable will yield more... | |
| Would you be more likely to buy new gear out of state if there was no sales tax Al has used the correct word ... it's a Use Tax and is due the state Here in CT this is the way the law reads From the CT State Revenue Dept. "The Customer’s Responsibility""In cases where the online retailer does not have to collect sales tax, it... |