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| HT, WHAT'S BETTER 2 CHANNEL + 3 OR ONE 5 CH Five monoblocks are less likely to cause you a hernia. | |
| FM antenna amplifier Tedkurtz...The best setup would be an amplifier on the antenna and one long downlead to the amp power supply which is located inside, and sends low voltage DC up the wire to the amp. Then coming out of the amp power supply (indoors) use a splitter... | |
| Chinese Loudspeakers ARE GOOD I remember when the only good American speakers were made in Boston! Things change. | |
| Convert rca cable into xlr cable. If the equipment having an XLR connector is capable of using a single ended electrical signal (and many are) you can change from RCA to XLR. However the electrical interface will still be single ended. I have some cables with RCA on one end and XL... | |
| Chinese Loudspeakers ARE GOOD The low cost of manufacture in China is not due only to low wages. Their factories are all new, and equipped with the latest automated tools, such as the machines that "stuff" circuit boards with all the resistors, capacitors, and ICs, and wave so... | |
| Seeking hot running amps About 25 years ago at work we had a Lab/Test Berth which had a big old computer in it. The air conditioning was badly set up and when the lab was unoccupied overnight and weekends is got uncomfortably cold when the lab technician came to work in t... | |
| FM antenna amplifier They are all pretty much the same. Be sure you get one that is (or can be adjusted for) the FM band. I have a Winegard. The other big name is Channel Master. Radio Shack sells the same stuff rebranded. In the old days a mast mount RF amplifier did... | |
| How Do I Build a Faraday Cage? As Bgrazman points out the cage does not need to be a solid sheet of conductive material. A wire mesh with quite wide wire spacing works fine. Indeed, your metal car provides good protection from lightning strikes even though it has large openings... | |
| How Do I Build a Faraday Cage? To see if you really want to do this, wrap the thing in Reynolds Wrap (Aluminum foil) and ground the foil. If this makes no difference spend the money you save on good recordings. | |
| Listening at very low volume Warrenh...The low distortion and complete lack of compression possible with very low power amplification that is acceptable for a headset reminds me of the kind of sonic character that I hear with your high efficiency single driver speakers. An ad... | |
| Listening at very low volume Why not go all the way and get a good headset? | |
| What happened to the loudness control? Spatialking...If your volume control is always at the same setting, whether that is 100% or 60%, a Loudness control has no relevance. In this situation, if you don't like your sound, what you need is some kind of fixed equalization. Loudness contr... | |
| What happened to the loudness control? Spatialking...Turning the volume all the way up is not using 100%of the range. In practice 50% of the range (eg: from 40% to 90% would be typical) and with a two knob loudness circuit tracking Fletcher-Munson very accurately over such a range is n... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Drubin...So let's turn this question over to the psychologists. Electrical engineering has no explanation. | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? A digital waveform can be very badly distorted, as viewed by the eye, but a well designed line receiver will still properly distinguish ones from zeros. Furthermore, if an error is made, or even a group of errors, perhaps due to some unrelated pow... |