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| What is the most overlooked consideration? @phusis I'm actually of two minds. I believe the "external" route is actually easier to implement, gives better flexibility, and is likely to yield better sound quality. On the other hand, I think there is a certain elegance to a high-end syste... | |
| I replaced the volume pot on my tube preamplifier. @bolong This VC should fit quite nicely and give you a substantial improvement in sound quality. https://www.hificollective.co.uk/catalog/potentiometer/100k-tkd-2dp-2511-mc.html TKD is a little hard to get in the US. Michael Percy is normally t... | |
| What is the most overlooked consideration? This way (i.e.: both getting rid of the passive crossover on the output side of the amp and having each amp channel drive a limited frequency span) the individual amp channels will see a significantly easier load presented to them, thereby making... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @richardbrand - being old enough to remember the launch of CD doesn't make you that old... Yeah, I was gonna say | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes On that general subject, here is an interview of Uncle Paul in which he reminisces about the early days of digital audio. Interesting https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/paul-mcgowan-and-the-history-of-digital-audio/ | |
| repair restore classe ca300 @kennymacc Maybe the particular CA-series you owned was a lemon? By now these amps are 25+ years old, and those that made it this far are probably neither more nor less reliable than their peers. As you correctly point out: The old Classe CA... | |
| repair restore classe ca300 My suggestion is to move on and forget about it. @ozzy62 Right now, OP has a nonfunctioning amp that he could put on craigslist and get maybe $100 as-is. Is that your advice? | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes (Apologies to @devinplombier for this temporary high jack) @mdalton Not at all, in fact I'm curious about the super tweeters after reading @lalitk 's eloquent description in his virtual system page. Something I would have assumed was not for... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes But I do firmly believe that our pursuit for a good sounding system benefits most when curiosity is anchored in reason and when we leave enough room for both exploration and skepticism to coexist. @lalitk I could not agree more, and in fact t... | |
| repair restore classe ca300 The problem can either be (a) the protection circuit is detecting excessive DC offset on the output and shutting it down to protect the speakers, in which case the amp developed a fault and the protection circuit is working and doing its job, or (... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @lalitk After perusing your virtual system following @mdalton ’s compliment of same, I would say that if my own system were anywhere near the state of evolution yours is in, I would likely be more open to evaluating components I currently consid... | |
| repair restore classe ca300 That's a good thread. Does it go into protection mode right away every time you turn it on, or is it intermittent? I have the monoblocks version of this amp. It's a great amp that will drive most hard to drive speakers and it is definitely wort... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @lalitk Thank you for your post. In principle, I 100% agree with you. That’s why I was careful to write that pre-streamer digital components should make no difference in sound quality. I was also careful to insert a qualifier about "all power s... | |
| I replaced the volume pot on my tube preamplifier. I replaced the damaged OE pot in my Krell pre with a TKD 2CP-2511. I originally wanted a resistor ladder attenuator, but couldn't find one that physically fit in the limited space. So I settled on the TKD 2CP-2511 and, as @mulveling shared, it is... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes @richardbrand A person relies extensively on cut-and-pasting at the risk of appearing lazy and unintelligent. Some highly knowledgeable folks contributed their expertise to this thread, but rather than learning from their expertise you chose to... |