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| Point to point wiring. Circuit boards (if intelegently designed) enable optimum placement of components with minimal wire runs between them. And, it avoids the need for wire "dressing", which always was something of an art. Depending on how many of the circuits you will... | |
| Magnepan MMG's just arrived Of course 100 watts is "enough". They will sound great. But...in my experience, each increase in power has made an improvement. I can drive my MG1.6 with 100, 200, 350, 450, or 600 watt amps (4 ohms). Clearly the best results are the with the 600 ... | |
| To Hot to Handle? What generates the heat in a tube amp? I know that the tube filiaments, turned on all the time even with no signal, generate a lot of heat. That is their purpose...to "boil off" electrons. The power transformer heat will vary somewhat with signal,... | |
| Digital potentiometers versus mechanical? The best "pots" are actually stepped attenuators: a ladder network of fixed resistors selected by a multiposition switch. A digital attenuator can be mechanized with the same ladder network of resistors, but with the switch contacts replaced by di... | |
| To Hot to Handle? If heat generation is a major factor to consider, the obvious solution is a digital amp, which are said to exhibit sonic characteristics similar to tube circuits. My CarverPro ZR1600 (good for 600 wpc into 4 ohms) draws about 45 watts with no sign... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test The "ice-brewed beer" method of increasing alcohol content is an age old method, best known for Jersey Lightning. This is fermented apple cider which you put out the window in the fall so that the water freezes. Then you pour off the liquid residu... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Zaikesman...Further comment"? I think you pretty much put the lower resistance argument to bed in the posting above. I might only add that citing lowered resistance as an advantage of Cryo is, in general, the kind of misapplied science that, once ... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Stehno...As I said in an earlier post, there is a 50 percent chance of guessing right, or wrong, so one guy's test doesn't prove much, one way or the other. What I take away from this is:(a)...(as I said before) I made a serious effort to see if I... | |
| Best Digital Amps Muralman1...Long ago Rolls Royce could truthfully say "The Best Car in the World". Although other vehicles made the Rolls obsolete, and quality went to pot, people who had invested their money and reputation in owning a Rolls refused to admit that... | |
| Best Digital Amps Muralman1...I think that we call an amplifier "digital" if its output stage is pulse-width-modulated (high speed switching transistors ON or OFF) rather than a proportional conduction device (transistor or tube). The control module, ICE, Tripath, ... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Stehno...Don't you think it's more fun not to know which one is Cryo'd? Make your best guess, and then open the envelope! But don't get too excited...your odds are 50/50. We would need to get a couple of dozen more folk to play the game before the... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Hdm and Stehno....Some facts...There is zero chance that I mixed up the outlets which I received (although I have no way, except trust, to know what I was given). I was, of course, aware of the risk of mixup, and took suitable precautions. The scr... | |
| What does mono "bridged" Not quite. Don't connect both amps up to the same speaker (in parallel) as Newbee's comment suggests! Damage will result.The term "Bridged" refers to use of a stereo amp as a differential amplifier, where one stereo channel is driven with an inver... | |
| Can we have an "Ask Sean" catagory? About the fears of lawsuits...the words "I think that..." pretty much protect you. You can express any opinions. If you represent them as fact (and you have credentials that suggest you are competent to judge these facts) you can be sued. Thus, in... | |
| Can we have an "Ask Sean" catagory? Somehow I missed the "integrity debate" about audio salesmen. Sounds like amusing reading.Like used car and vinyl siding salesmen, on up (down?) the range to congressmen and even presidents, integrity is a quality that an individual can exhibit, n... |