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| Organ CDs with really deep bass It won't shake your house, but a Multichannel SACD, Sony SS87983, E Power Biggs playing Bach Toccatas and Fugues is interesting, because he is playing four organs located in various places in the Cathedral of Freiburg. His interpretation of these ... | |
| Why are some cables 'directional'? Sometimes, as in the shielded 300 ohm leadin from my FM antenna, the shield is left unterminated at both ends. What's best may depend on your particular equipment, and the environment it operates in. Try it both ways. One may be better, or there m... | |
| Why are some cables 'directional'? The shield is terminated only at one end. This may or may not have any effect, depending on the noise environment of the system. | |
| Warped records, can they be somewhat dewarped? Whenever I tried it just made the warp worse. I have a Sony turntable with "Biotracer" (servo controlled) arm. It does handle badly warped records that I could not play on other turntables. | |
| attenuating maggie 3.6's I believe the Magnepan literature, which says that many recordings are made with overbright highs to compensate for speakers that roll off. They suggest that you insert a resistor in series with the tweeter so as to match the Maggie response to wh... | |
| Gilmore Audio planars revealed Gregm...If I remember correctly from Bob Carver's explanations of his speaker, the small (weak) magnets in the LF drivers are deliberate and necessary to produce dynamic characteristics needed for free air operation. (I have no idea why). So cost ... | |
| Can any multi-channel amp be bridged? Audiobomber...Of course the required center speaker signal is L+R, but there is more than one way to make this happen. One way is to mix the low level L and R signals, and drive a separate amp. Another way is to make a Y connection of the three fr... | |
| What does Flat Earth mean in audio circles? For most practical purposes, the earth is flat. | |
| Gilmore Audio planars revealed These speaker may sound great, but they should not be called "planar". | |
| Can any multi-channel amp be bridged? Audiobomber...Also called the Dynaco matrix multichannel setup, and they sold hardware to facilitate its setup. They derived a center front channel by using a Y connection of the front Left and Right with the return through the center. What I did ... | |
| someone please explain direct coupled amps Clueless got it right...we are talking about interstage coupling capacitors being eliminated. A Direct coupled amp has response down to DC: which means that if you put a constant 1 volt on the input you will get a constant 25 volts (or so) at the ... | |
| Do cd's store a more exact copy of sound than LP's One violin or a hundred violins, there is only one signal (voltage variation over time) per channel. The fidelity with which this analog signal can be represented by a series of numbers (voltages at times) which is the digital method, is precisely... | |
| Can any multi-channel amp be bridged? When you bridge a stereo amp, you drive each individual amp with the same signal, but one signal has inverted phase. Note that this makes for a more steady draw from the plus and minus power supplies. Some amps (like the Dynaco ST120 of long ago) ... | |
| DYI Speakers. How good can they be? Rkeman...I agree that Madisound Kits are great. I have three Dynaudio Gemini from Madisound, which are very good (for a box). However, I don't consider assembly of a Madisound kit as true DIY. | |
| Recommendation for multi-ch pre/pro Rotel 1066. Mine works great. Few $. |