eldartford
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| MMGs flat with Complex Music For massive sounds, like symphony orchestra or theatre organ, I don't think that the MMG can give you really satisfactory volume. I have three MG1.6, augmented by a six-driver subwoofer system, and I only claim to come close. | |
| HDCD'S HDCD is a very clever way of getting 20 bit program resolution out of a 16 bit recording media (CD). Before true, 24 bit, high resolution media became practical HDCD made sense. Today it is the world's best audio buggy whip.The basic concepts of H... | |
| Un-WARP your records I have a few warped recoreds, but I nebver had much luck flattening them using various methods. Then, I got a Sony PS-X800 TT with "Biotracer" (servo controlled) linear tracking arm and, low and behold, even the warped records played fine. The mes... | |
| battling the pops and clicks Surface noise if a fact of life with vinyl, although you can minimize it by various expensive and labor-intensive methods. At some point you must learn to "listen through" the surface noise. Some people have no problem doing this, while others can... | |
| A Good Classical SACD / DVD-A The very best multichannel DVDA are the Tacet discs. Try the Mozart flute concertos for a start. | |
| What's a Triode configuration? Of course as Jeffreybehr points out all low level signal amplification is done with triodes, often the ubiqutous 12AX7, and its clones. The alternative to a triode is the pentode, which is used in power amps that have transformers. The extra grid ... | |
| Can you have too many tubes? "Too many" can apply to transistors as well as tubes. I think the issue is the number of gain stages in the signal path, and this is quite different from the eternal argument about tubes vs transistors. With either technology I think that most agr... | |
| First Order Crossovers: Pros and Cons Biomimetic...The polarity of the driver wiring is determined by how the speaker system is connected internally. If it has biwire terminals you could mess with this by reversing the cable at one terminal. | |
| Checking cable impedance You can only measure dc resistance with a multimeter. It will be near infinity from conductor to shield, and near zero from one end to the other. This is of no significance. | |
| Does sound travel better at night? The wine helps. | |
| DVD-A player, coaxial, optical, or 6 analog inputs For DVDA (and SACD) you MUST use analog, because there is no digital. Connect the digital also for use with sources that do have digital output, so that only the processor does D/A conversion. | |
| Why is it so much more civil over here on Agon? Knowledge is stored in three formats.1... Genetic...For example: A bird knows exactly how to build it's species nest, without ever seeing one. It is hard coded in the brain.2... Remembered from the animal's life experience. For example: Bears know... | |
| Reversing Polarity -- Voodoo or Easy Tweak? Unlike most audiophile tweeks, the absolute polarity effect, at least superficially, seems to make scientific sense. Also, unlike most tweeks, it is easy and cheap. However, I do suspect that the science might fall apart on closer examination, and... | |
| Reversing Polarity -- Voodoo or Easy Tweak? I wish I had access to a storage scope and a mic. It would be very interesting to examine the shape of transient waveforms (like the drum) both close mic'd and distant. Of course, once the signal is played back through a loudspeaker and rerecorded... | |
| Reversing Polarity -- Voodoo or Easy Tweak? Herman...Both Hi and Lo signals are shifted 45 degrees at X/O, so the woofer/tweeter discrepancy is 90 degrees (for first order). In fact the discrepancy is constant at 90 degrees for all frequencies, but causes most problems around the X/O freque... |