dracule1
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| Whole house surge protection Yes I did. couple of things are holding me back. One is the amount of max surge current it can handle, 12.5 kA. Other surge arresters for residential applications I've seen are 80+ kA. And it has no warranty against damage. | |
| Does the volume control effect sound quality? Hi George, what isn't flawed in audio? From what I understand, even the LDR preamps have issue with impedance matching, drift, and tolerance (ie, difficult to make a balanced preamp using LDRs). LDR preamps do sound excellent, may even surpass the... | |
| Does the volume control effect sound quality? Yes, VC upgrade in M-60 are stepped attenuator using Caddock resistors, I think. | |
| You know you're an audiophile if-- you say out loud stroking your tube amp, "Isn't SHE beautiful! SHE never complains."...in front of your girlfriend. | |
| Whole house surge protection Also, EP doesn't back up their surge protection with any warranty, unlike Eaton CSHP Ultra that comes with $75,000 warranty against damage. | |
| Whole house surge protection Thanks Lifeengineer. I looked into the EP products. Looks very interesting. However, the EP2050 is only rated at 12.5 kA of max surge current. According to my electrician, the higher the max surge current and power rating, the better the protectio... | |
| Any Environment Potentials EP-2050 users out there Hi Rhyno, any way I can contact you for your advice on whole house protection? | |
| Does the volume control effect sound quality? Atmasphere, I am not talking about a preamp. I'm talking about a stepped attenuator or autoformer in the input of a tube amplifier. I have a stepped attenuator in my amplifier, and this configuration sounds better than any preamp I've had in my sy... | |
| Does the volume control effect sound quality? Hi Dave, thanks for clarifying my confusion. I have your autoformer preamp(Bent Audio TapX), which competes with some of the best preamps out there (both active and passive), as long as you keep the interconnects short and impedances appropriately... | |
| Bob Carver 180 Mono-blocks perform superbly Vmhf, I understand your warranty concern. As far as your CDP volume issue is concerned, it depends on the quality of the the volume control circuit of the CDP. If it is high quality, I would set Bobs vol control to max which will almost effectivel... | |
| Whole house surge protection Jea, looks like many home surge protection units use MOVs. I asked a master electrician in my area. He recommended the Eaton CSHP Ultra which uses MOVs. | |
| Does the volume control effect sound quality? Hi Dave, thanks for posting the square waves. Have you ever had any complaints of frequency response loss due to Miller effect (raised by Atmasphere) from using your autoformer volume control at the input of an tube amp? Apologies to the OP if thi... | |
| Does the volume control effect sound quality? I'm sure the signal is not as well preserved as resistor attenuator or LDR units. But music isn't composed of square waves and I don't make a of habit of listening to 20 kHz square waves. I have heard your LDR unit and like it a lot, but you don't... | |
| Does the volume control effect sound quality? Inductive = Autoformer volume control. Example, Slagleformer in the Bent Audio Tap X, one of the best passive preamps around. George, I think you're thinking of the wrong volume control. | |
| Does the volume control effect sound quality? Guess I'll have to install the inductive volume control and see if there's any freq response problems. Some things in audio are just unpredictable. |