eldartford
Responses from eldartford
| What Equipment Remains In Your System Long Term? Luxman T14 FM tuner. Really beautiful slim design, ergonomic controls and indicators, with top notch performance. | |
| Carver Power Amps It's hard to imagine that any audio power amp would have problems in the LF range. That's the easy part. Making it work well at high audio frequencies (above 10KHz) is harder. | |
| Calling all analog experts Jasonic...These threads do tend to evolve into discussions related to, but not directly answering the original question. Frankly, we often answer one of the prior posters, rather than the original thread author. In this case Dougdeacon's mention o... | |
| Calling all analog experts A general comment from an engineer with long experience in the design and testing of precision servo loops..If you want to maintain precise uniformity of mechanical motion (such as RPM of a turntable) in spite of variable drag and/or motor torque,... | |
| Gilmore Audio planars revealed I really don't blame Sellerwith... for taking a break. I am beginning to feel sorry for him, like the poor bank loan officer in the Ditech TV ads. | |
| What are the most under-appreciated products? Eico tube amp kits. Comparable to Dyna Kits (later Dynaco) for less money. Ah for the good old days when matched KT 88's went for $25. | |
| Inactive speakers in the room...any effect? Linn is the "certain British manufacturer" who tried to pressure dealers into having a dedicated Linn room. The extra speaker thing was part of it. | |
| Marchand Audio The original Bose idea (before they went commercial) was to make a speaker with deliberate roll-off beginning at a very high frequency (I seem to remember 200 Hz) and correct it electronically. As sean says, GOBS or SUPERGOBS of power were necessa... | |
| Question about SQ "Good" is a subjective term. They will sound different. There is a significant amount of out-of-phase signal (between the two channels) so there will be increased ambience and sense of space. I play some SQ LPs through Dolby multichannel matrix lo... | |
| Inactive speakers in the room...any effect? Sean...Your point about subtractive differences is very well-taken. The best known example of this is that a performance hall has very different acoustic characteristics when it is full of people vs when it is empty.Of course speakers function as ... | |
| Balanced connection/amplification for phono? Hagtech...A balanced line can be implemented with a two terminal source by leaving both the source wires ungrounded and providing a ground reference through a pair of resistors at the destination input. This configuration was used for powering AC ... | |
| FM/AM versus Analog versus Digital The Stereo FM signal is transmitted, not as Left and Right, but as Sum and Difference. The Sum signal is the Mono signal that can be received by an old FM set that is not stereo. The difference signal is carried above a 19KHz marker tone that acti... | |
| Inactive speakers in the room...any effect? Sidssp...Yes I agree that in close proximity to the active speakers they would function much like passive radiators (which, by the way, some people think are a bad idea).I can't do that particular experiment because the walls behind my three MG1.6... | |
| Inactive speakers in the room...any effect? I would be delighted to participate in such an experiment if there is anyone near western Mass who is interested. An audio club perhaps? | |
| Questions about Toslink's FYI....The "typical" loss for a fiber optic termination/connection is on the order of 2dB. Two of them, so as to insert a switch means 4dB. When you factor in the loss of the switch itself you will end up near the 6dB to be expected from a splitte... |