eldartford
Responses from eldartford
| To tone control or not to tone control Because of their bad reputation, and to satisfy purists, tone controls of many preamps can be bypassed. So it is no harm to have them, (and when no one is looking, you might like to use them). | |
| Tandberg sounds bright. Edle and Tomryan...Your playback equipment may be tubes, but think about how many transitorized circuits the signal went through before it got onto the CD or LP. | |
| Order to Shut out or Light on a System? I used to have a big problem remembering to do this right, but I solved it by buying an inexpensive Adcom ACE-515, which, in addition to providing a bunch of 115VAC outlets, also sequences them properly. The ACE-515 keeps high current switching ou... | |
| SACD vs DVD-A speaker set-up geometry Kr4 is correct as to what is recommended. However, few people can arrange their rooms exactly as specified. Also, bipole/dipole speakers work fine. As always, speaker type and placement makes a difference, but IMHO there is no hard and fast "right... | |
| Crossovers If I remember correctly there is a 90 degree phase shift (between woofer and tweeter) for each 6 dB filter section. So, 6 dB is 90 degrees, 12 dB is 180 degrees, 18 dB is 270 degrees, and 24 dB is 360 degrees. Note that the 24 dB filter restores i... | |
| There's a sucker born every minute People who live in glass houses... | |
| Shure V15VxMR to be discontinued No doubt resonance of the arm/pickup is an issue. Conventional wisdom is to arrange for the resonant frequency to be in some particular range that is thought to be best.In thinking about WHY my servo controlled "Biotracer" arm in the Sony turntrab... | |
| Multichannel amps that can drive low impedances? Correct Sogood51...Three CarverPro ZR1600 will give you six channels for less than three grand.I had an experience where I screwed up the wiring in some speaker cables so that a short of about one ohm existed. Paralleled with this was the 4 ohm Ma... | |
| hospital grade or commercial grade receptacles ? Tbg....An example of "impure science" is...1. Resistance in speaker wires is bad. (true).2. Therefore, a resistance of 0.01 ohm will sound better than 0.02 ohm. (absurd). | |
| hospital grade or commercial grade receptacles ? Hdm...I don't think that it is valid to compare a 115 vac wiring change with the Underwood mod to the Denon player. The mod involves replacement of a lot of active circuitry, and it is entirely to be expected (on a purely scientific basis) that th... | |
| hospital grade or commercial grade receptacles ? Irvrobinson...My dog says "woof, woof". Make what you want of this. | |
| Maggy MG12 over the 1.6? If you will use a subwoofer the smaller Maggies will be fine. Even the MMG. | |
| hospital grade or commercial grade receptacles ? Albertporter...When the dog barks the guy hears something else, because he wants to. He is happy. So am I with my dog who doesn't need human speach to communicate.Let's move on :-) | |
| hospital grade or commercial grade receptacles ? I know a guy who claims that his dog can talk. He has all the nitty gritty details...the dog speaks Spanish, and with a Cuban accent, and often quotes poetry. The damn dog just barks at me, but the guy swears it's true. Should I believe him? | |
| Quit vinyl? It's hard to pull the plug. Goes to show how much emotion is involved with our audio systems, as opposed to practical usefulness. |