eldartford
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| Living Stereo SACD's are a comin My selection of these discs arived today, and I just listened to the Chopin performance by Rubinstein. I have most of these recordings in vinyl. The SACD is to my mind a big improvement over the vinyl: I appreciate the center channel, particularly... | |
| "Non Inductive" resistors. Tom...It might take a 10K speaker system, and comparable electronics to hear the difference between resistors! Since I am into the business of installing resistors anyway I just might try an experiment: comparing a 38 cent resistor in one speaker ... | |
| "Non Inductive" resistors. Theaudiotweak...1. I asked because some people (like you) insist that resistor type affects sound. Although it doesn't make sense to me, I am open minded enough to listen to other points of view. So far I am unconvinced. 2. Please you tell me what... | |
| "Non Inductive" resistors. Theaudiotweak...As I said, I have always used "Audiophile" resistors (not necessarily North Creek items). But I don't know why, and I rather doubt that it would make any difference for these little boxes. When I replaced the crossovers of my Maggi... | |
| Equalizers anyone? Sean...Procedures for room EQ (that I have seen) always call for the process to be done with the mic in several locations, and the results averaged. Some automatic EQ systems store the results of several runs and do the average for you. (But I'm s... | |
| "Non Inductive" resistors. Herman...Not really. Since "audiophile quality" non-inductive resistors are quite inexpensive (compared with inductors and capacitors) I have never given much thought to why non-inductive was important. The financial considerations of patching up ... | |
| Capacitor-less amps John_tracy...But it doesn't pass through it. | |
| "Non Inductive" resistors. Herman...Two of those in parallel (for 4 ohms) would have a 40 watt rating! I really was thinking in terms of a simple wirewound 4 ohm 10 watt costing 39 cents each. (Parts Express, but I don't want to pay shipping on this!)I really was expecting ... | |
| "Non Inductive" resistors. Aball...Thanks. That's what I thought. | |
| Speaker w/F.R. 100hz & Receiver Bass crossover Diagonal? I'm not so sure. Doesn't the sound wave bounce back and forth between parallel surfaces? Hence recording studios where nothing is parallel to anything else. | |
| Capacitor-less amps Aball...Yep. I don't know what I was thinking. I guess that the point I was making is that the PS capacitors are such huge values, compared with coupling capacitors, that they would look like a short circuit to an audio signal. | |
| Speaker w/F.R. 100hz & Receiver Bass crossover Didactically...Sorry about that. But you did make yourself such a tempting target. It made my day :-)Feel free to post any damn fool idea that you might have. You will fit right in! | |
| Capacitor-less amps John_tracy...Get real! If power supply capacitors were in the signal path the amp's HF rolloff would be about 0.0001 Hz! | |
| How to match preamp gain to amp sensitivity? If all you want to do is match the preamp gain to the amp sensitivity you don't need a continuous control like a pot (may affect audio quality) or a stepped attenuator (expensive). All you need is a couple of resistors (dividing network). Use some... | |
| Speaker w/F.R. 100hz & Receiver Bass crossover Didactically...I think we are supposed to be talking about the main speakers of a setup using a subwoofer (or two). In this context a spec of 80 Hz vs 100 Hz is not a big deal, especially because the pricing structure of these two speakers from th... |