eldartford
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| What is the advantage of a balanced interconnect? Rwwear...How do I go about evaluating a device that eliminates inaudible noise? | |
| "Power hungry" speakers Sean...Actually, low level crossovers can be passive, (I think that Marchand sells one) although that is usually not the case. Anyway, active crossovers are implemented with capacitors. | |
| "Power hungry" speakers Sean..So you have your capacitors in line level circuits instead of in the speaker circuit. Can you describe why these capacitors are OK, while others are fraught with problems?I gather that you drive your tweeters directly from full range power a... | |
| What is the advantage of a balanced interconnect? Rwwear...Is 6dB of extra gain a good thing? It will force you to attenuate the signal more by turning your volume control down.If you have hum when single ended RCA cables are used, your equipment and/or cables have a problem. | |
| "Power hungry" speakers Sean...Even as I typed it I knew that you would take issue with my comment about capacitors dissipating no power! OK. An ideal capacitor dissipates no power. Real capacitors are not ideal. But, with regard to power dissipation, they are darned clo... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Psychicanimal...Got it! Frankly, your comments are indistinguishable from those who...whatever. | |
| "Power hungry" speakers First let me state that I have seen improvements in the sound of many speakers through use of more powerful amplifiers. In particular, my MG 1.6 now enjoy 600 watts.However, it is very obvious (a simple voltage measurement will do) that the power ... | |
| What is the advantage of a balanced interconnect? Unless the all the equipment you buy has electrical interfaces for balanced line interconnects, you can't use them anyway, so don't worry about it. For home audio equipment balanced interfaces are a high cost "boutique" feature. In pro sound equip... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Psychicanimal...Sure, but would you have the guts to submit to blind testing conducted by someone who doesn't subscribe to your belief?If not, I do understand. Sometimes it is best not to test articles of faith that have great importance to us. Co... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Psychicanimal...I wish there was a way to test you on this issue. You are so very strong in your belief in cryo that, should you guess wrong, the fall would be spectacular! | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Psychicanimal...No, I wouldn't do that, and I don't think Hdm did it to me. If beliefs require deceit to support them, I am not interested.Two points that ought not to be forgotten.1. I am doing this experiment to satisfy myself, not to convince a... | |
| Dahlquist DQ-10 - did they use Advent woofers? I had a couple of Advents when they first came out. As I remember, one of its features was that the woofer was a 10" cone built on a standard 12" driver frame, so as to leave more room for a compliant suspension. A clever low cost production strat... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Hdm and Stehno...Ok. I will dismount both outlets from the boxes, put the extra screws back into the outlet they came in, and ship the outlets, and the box (empty) on to Stehno. He will not know which outlet is Cryo'd. Of course I do. If I had cla... | |
| Quite Strings? The best chamber music recordings that I have are TACET DVD-A discs available from elusivedisc.com, and others. | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Hdm...Sure. Will ship to Stehno if someone gives me an address.The Cryo'd outlet was in a carboard box, the other was not. I have mounted the two outlets in two electrical boxes, marked "A" and "B". One outlet had all four terminal screws, while t... |