eldartford
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| One Monoblock or Two? Biamping would only be an advantage if you use a line level crossover, so that each of the amps only sees part of the frequency range.Furthermore, the principle advantage of biamping is to reduce intermodulation distortion, and today's amps do not... | |
| How do we remember 1970s amplifiers? The DynaKit 120 circuit is a preamp on steroids. Output through a big capacitor: no transformer. Its sound quality was critisized until they come out with the conventional 150, which made the 120 sound good. I had both.The Kenwood L-07M is a direc... | |
| Upgrading Fuses Vhiner... "Measure" the same. As I have pointed out, the human ear, which we all agree is the ultimate judge of how it sounds, can be used to make a measurement of any difference between two audio amps by listening to the null across the hot outpu... | |
| Upgrading Fuses Circuit breakers are appropriate for power amps, where overheating due to prolonged high power operation is not uncommon. Reset the breaker, reduce volume, and resume the concert.In a preamp, fuse blowout is associated with some fault in the circu... | |
| Upgrading Fuses Vhiner... My comments are about fraudulent advertising, not just about fuses. If the market were more than tiny the Feds would be after the charlitans. | |
| Upgrading Fuses If someone thinks that a particular configuration of wire (or fuse) makes audio sound better, that's fine by me, even if I disagree. However, if that person makes (or buys) such wire, brands it, and sells it at a ridiculous price that is not OK by... | |
| Upgrading Fuses Jeff_jones... Traditional "measurements" usually report specific characteristics of the signal. The measured parameter can remain unchanged while other parameters change, and affect the sound. The significant parameter for audio is "how it sounds"... | |
| Upgrading Fuses Vhiner... Just as silly. | |
| Upgrading Fuses There are some things that you don't need to try.I am selling anti-gravity boots. Put them on and you can jump off a tall building without falling. If you don't believe they work buy them and try them out. If they don't work I offer full refund. | |
| Upgrading Fuses To say that fuses make no difference is to say that your system is not "high resolution". No audiophile will admit to that! | |
| Speaker crossover mod. Your advice? Hifisoundguy... By that you mean a single "full range" driver.Sorry to rain on your parade, but full range drivers have a mechanical crossover due to cone breakup. The dust cap and innermost portion of the cone are the tweeter. Such a mechanical f... | |
| RCA Caps A well-designed selector switch of a preamp will short all inputs except the one selected. With the old style rotary selector switch this requires an additional "deck". No doubt this deck has been eliminated to reduce cost. | |
| Magnepan 1.6 active 24db slop better than stock? Mag... I used Hovland. For best bang for the buck, and ease of work, I would recommend leave the Solens alone and put the $$ into a good inductor. | |
| magnepans with a sub??? I use a custom multidriver 3 channel subwoofer system with my MG 1.6. Unlike stock subwoofers mine can easily go up to 400 Hz or so. After years of subwoofer experience I have concluded that the ideal crossover frequency depends on the type of mus... | |
| Magnepan 1.6 active 24db slop better than stock? Magfan... I redid my crossovers using an aircore inductor with lower DCR (don't remember the value). However, if it slightly boosts the woofer output this means that there is less need for a tweeter pading resistor. Overall results are good. The s... |