eldartford
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| Tubes to solid state for amplifier path... Go digital. | |
| Balanced vs. unbalanced The additional circuitry is a unity gain stage, which inverts the signal. Unity gain stages are easy to design and build with virtually no distortion or noise, so I wouldn't worry about that. The balanced interface is much more immune to noise pic... | |
| EQ before Preamp? Rodman99999...There are bubbles and there are bubbles. Some say rhodium anything is to be avoided, and black gate capacitors aren't anything special. Burr-Brown has no monopoly on good A/D and D/A converters. But, you are entitled to your personal... | |
| EQ before Preamp? Mordante...I am not familiar with the entire line of Behringer equipment, but the DEQ 2496 is built as well as any audiophile gear, and sounds excellent. Any flaws are more than compensated by its ability to correct room effects.Other pro sound eq... | |
| Difference between today and yesterday. Rodman99999...Needle, ball, and airspeed, and the door open. What avionics? | |
| Difference between today and yesterday. Douglas_schroeder...Old volin vs new violin, Apple to apple. Old speaker to new speaker. Orange to orange. Sometimes all the technology is without benefit (except for marketing). I would take a KLH 9 electrostatic speaker over anything made today,... | |
| Difference between today and yesterday. Rodman99999...You enjoy your old Harley, although a new Honda is probably more practical as a means of travel. I am a pilot. I enjoy flying a Piper J3 Cub, although a new Cirus is more practical as a means of travel. Each has its place. | |
| Difference between today and yesterday. Douglas_schroeder...How so? | |
| Auto-calibration I have found that precise equalization of volume from front and surround speakers using the test signal usually included in multichannel equipment is a waste of time. Relative volume on a multichannel disc is at the discretion of the mix engineer,... | |
| 6L6 or variant The audiophile interest in 6V6 tubes is interesting. Back when I first became interested in audio amps the 6V6 tube was what you got in Stromberg-Carlson console gramaphones, and similar mass market audio equipment. 6V6 tubes were everywhere excep... | |
| Difference between today and yesterday. And modern violins are much better than those old Stradivarius fiddles. | |
| Difference between today and yesterday. It depends on the music. For "big" music, symphonies, organ, loud rock, etc. the old JBL, Altec, and the like with 15" woofers are best. But you can't play such speakers at realistic volume in an apartment, and the speakers probably wouldn't fit a... | |
| What does more power do for Magnepans? Don_s...In a 2-way speaker system of,say, 8 ohms, each of the drivers will be 8 ohms. True, the drivers are in parallel, but because of the crossover the power amp "sees" the woofer alone at low frequency, and the tweeter alone at high frequency, ... | |
| What does more power do for Magnepans? Stilljd...It appears that your voltmeter was the analog kind. Reading this when the signal is fluctuating would be difficult. My meter is digital. It makes a measurement about once a second. All I have to do is remember the highest value that I se... | |
| EQ before Preamp? Mordante...A deep dark secret..."Pro gear" is made with the same circuitry and electronics parts as audiophile gear. It's "cheap" because it is produced in greater volume, and is sold to serious audio people who care more about the sound than a pr... |