eldartford
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| House Amperage vs Stereo Amperage Feedback around an audio amplifier enables it to properly follow the signal input even if the "rail" voltages fluctuate. If the rail voltage diminishes, the transistor (or tube) is just turned on more. I am sure everyone is familiar with the way t... | |
| House Amperage vs Stereo Amperage 15 amps at 115 volts represents 1725 watts...more than your toaster! Think what this would do to the tender voice coil of your speaker. Obviously the average power delivered to the speaker is only a few watts. Speaker sensitivity typically runs ab... | |
| Smaller speaker - bigger Woofer? If you want to put a big woofer in a small box the solution is an isobaric setup (Two woofers, one behind the other...half the box volume). Over to you sean. | |
| Driver efficiency vs. overall speaker efficiency Satch...Efficiency is stated as dB per VOLT (not current). Of course the current will be more with a 4 ohm load, but that's the power amp's problem. | |
| Recommendations discs for SACD/DVD-A trial Swampwalker...I think you need to get a SACD disc that claims to be "pure" DSD. No PCM involved with the master recording, or the mixdown process. On this disc, the redbook layer will have been made from the same original data, but with conversion... | |
| Recommendations discs for SACD/DVD-A trial In the case of SACD, you have a 16 bit (redbook) CD version on the same disc. If you want to have two physically separate discs, rip a copy of the CD layer from the SACD.Whereabouts are you in CT? I am in Stockbridge MA. (Go Red Sox). | |
| Mercury Living Presence SACD's Rcprince...You're right. I am talking about "Living Stereo" not "Living Presence". (Actually they are all dead). I think that some of the confusion (which is not limited to me) comes about because both series involve some 3-channel recordings, new... | |
| Driver efficiency vs. overall speaker efficiency You can't measure the efficiency of a bare driver. It needs to be in some sort of test enclosure. The test enclosure is not the same as the final system enclosure, and may yield a lower efficiency measurement. This is not a problem if your objecti... | |
| Mercury Living Presence SACD's The Tchaikovsky Symphony 6, "Pathetique", Pierre Monteax conducting the BSO (when the BSO was great) is of course a superb and classic performance. Various aspects of the recording technique are also also exceptional, but, as with the Chopin Balla... | |
| Limited budget-spend more money on amp or preamp? Muzikat...Correction. Speakers produce a lot more than what is fed to them. They (like all transducers)superimpose their character on the sound. Source quality-per-dollar goes up a lot faster than speaker quality-per-dollar. And if you consider th... | |
| Limited budget-spend more money on amp or preamp? How about a good Integrated amp. This will make you happy for now. When you win the lottery you can add a low level electronic crossover and a power amp to biamp the speakers.I think it is speakers first, with the proviso that the power amp must b... | |
| "Non Inductive" resistors. Maybe that's why the Maggie MG1.6 sound good. Crossover consists of one inductor and one capacitor for the woofer, and one capacitor (implemented as a parallel group) for the tweeter. And NO RESISTOR unless you choose to insert one. This also made... | |
| "Non Inductive" resistors. Tom...These speakers will never sound great, but they do need all the help they can get:-) | |
| "Non Inductive" resistors. OK. OK. I will try the North Creek resistors.I guess that the supposed superiority of these resistors is based on characteristics other than inductance, which would obviously be of no concern. | |
| "Non Inductive" resistors. Herman...I confess, that was me about the wire twisting. It was indeed an "inane" question, and intended as such, but only a slight extension of some ideas put forth here. (eg: wires on Dixie cups). Let's not take ourselves too seriously.This ques... |