eldartford
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| One Return or Two for Interconnects? Whoops!!!... I see this is about Interconnects, not speaker wires. However, a similar argument would apply. There would theoretically be some loss of separation, but this would be miniscule because the input impedance is so much higher than the in... | |
| One Return or Two for Interconnects? Actually, it is the return wire that has some theoretical advantage to bi-wiring. (One signal and two returns).If the return wire has any resistance the Low terminal of the woofer will have an attenuated (and probably distorted) woofer voltage on ... | |
| Amp output levels Amandarae...Your way will involve comparing measurements of two relatively large voltages. Even a small percentage measurement error of the large voltage will imply a large difference. If you measure the difference (across the two hot amp output t... | |
| Amp output levels Measuring each amp output and calculating the difference is a poor method. Rather, with a Mono signal, measure across the Left and Right amp outputs. That is a direct measurement of the difference. | |
| Can a Magnepan 1.6 be BI AMPED? Lightminer...The woofer and tweeter sections of the MG1.6 crossover are (to use your words) "totally separate". If you don't want to biwire or biamp you connect the tweeter input using a jumper. | |
| Can a Magnepan 1.6 be BI AMPED? Lightminer...The 1.6 crossover also has separate inputs for woofer and tweeter. In stock form the tweeter input is connected by the jumper. | |
| Can a Magnepan 1.6 be BI AMPED? Lightminer...That capacior is really there. I have seen and touched it. Are you sure your info was from the mouth of the horse?..:-)You can also look at the schematic of the crossover (Maggie owners group) and see the capacitor. | |
| Anyone use the tweeter attenuation on Maggies? I forgot to mention Magnepan's statement that the MG1.6 (and probably other models) measure flat without the resistor. However, it is claimed that recordings often ramp up the high end to compensate for typical speaker roll off, so it may be neces... | |
| Anyone use the tweeter attenuation on Maggies? Tweeters are generally more efficient than woofers, so crossover networks typically include a "tweeter padding resistor" in series with the tweeter. Because Magnepan makes both the woofer and tweeter sections of their speakers the tweeter is somet... | |
| Bose 901...really Here is an update...1...One speaker quit. Open circuit. I contacted Bose. Warantee service was first class.2...Hooked up the repaired speaker. (I don't know what the problem was). Of course I sat down to listen. Again I was astonished to hear how ... | |
| Ribbon tweeters...out of favor these days? It's the line array configuration, to which ribbons are best suited, which accounts for their exceptional performance. Not everyone wants a 6-foot tall speaker. | |
| Are anti-cable interconnects properly shielded? Shielding is a band aid. Sometimes it is necessary.Back in the 1950's I built the Heathkit (Mono) preamp. It had extensive shielding of its internal wires. Still it humed.Next I build the original Dyna Kit (Mono) preamp. Absolutely no shielded wir... | |
| Can a Magnepan 1.6 be BI AMPED? Lightminer...Whoever told you that had never had the X/O apart!Magfan...I used Hovland capacitors. There is considerable opinion that Solons are not bad at all, and, as you say, any improvement would come at high cost. I didn't know what kind of c... | |
| unused inputs/outputs - safe to short? In the good old days preamps would short all the inputs that were not selected. The rotary selector switch had an additional deck to do this. Many preamps, even cheap ones like Heathkit, also had a level adjustment for each input so you could chan... | |
| Can a Magnepan 1.6 be BI AMPED? Based on my experience the only mod worth doing to the MG1.6 is to replace the internal stock iron core inductor with an air core inductor. This won't fit inside and needs to be mounted externally on the back.I also replaced the capacitors, but th... |