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| Do you prefer being "transported' to the event... It depends on the music. Classical chamber music or jazz is great with a multichannel system with one performer in each channel. This puts the performers in your room. However, I really don't want the Boston Symphony Orchestra in my living room. | |
| How to remove a 'press fit' steel ball bearing? Differential expansion coefficients of different materials is often used to assemble things like this. If you were to heat or cool the assembly the ball might just fall out. Sometimes during assembly one part is heated up and the other is cooled. ... | |
| Dust...It's Killing Me Where I worked in aerospace (missile guidance systems) a so-called "clean room" is essential for assembly of the equipment. When it all started in the 1950s the Navy built us a factory with a state of the art clean room. It was a hermetically-seal... | |
| Dust...It's Killing Me Dust is ugly, but with the exception of vinyl playback equipment and, to a lesser extent, the high voltage power supply of a tube amp, it won't affect audio equipment. Dust is the main reason that I rarely use my LPs.There are machines which clean... | |
| 4 or 8 ohm tap - is this a good way to tell The 8 ohm tap produces a higher voltage (for a given input signal level), and will therefore sound louder. Loudness does not imply a better match. However, this higher voltage comes at the cost of reduced current capability, so the maximum power c... | |
| Horns vs Ribbons vs Dyanamic In my experience, Horns can make a dramatic first impression, but become annoying over time. I have often mentioned that they reproduce dixieland jazz with frightening realism. Those trumpets sound so real. But I prefer speakers where violins don'... | |
| 3 way vs. 2 way The comment about playing LOUD is correct. To get a woofer to work up to a tweeter crossover frequency (2000 Hz or higher) its size must be small (6 or 7 inches). Such a driver is not capable of high volume bass.Of course, when you use a subwoofer... | |
| Mono LP's? If you use a stereo cartridge you need to jumper the left and right signals, preferebly right at the cartridge. However, if you also play stereo LPs it is more convenient to do this in the preamp with a switch. DON'T do it at the power amp output!... | |
| Behringer DEQ 2496 help Cwlondon...If price is any consideration, the DEQ2496 certainly ranks high simply as a DAC, and the RTA, the equalizer, and all the other features can be considered a bonus! I am not going to tell you if it sounds as good or better than DAC X, Y, ... | |
| Behringer DEQ 2496 help Cwlondon...You can bypass the A./D input converter, and the D/A output converter if you feed digital in and provide an outboard D/A converter connected to the digital output. Within the Behringer the EQ processing and other processing is done by d... | |
| Behringer DEQ 2496 help Cwlondon...NO!!! If you use a DAC to feed an analog signal into the DEQ2496, it will immediately do an analog to digital conversion. If you want to avoid the A/D and D/A converters of the DEQ2496 (completely unnecessary IMHO) you should feed digit... | |
| Soldering 101 for Audiophiles Herman...Audiophiles can make ANYTHING into a mystical art... even solder. | |
| Soldering 101 for Audiophiles In general one should not rely on solder for mechanical strength. Crimp the wire to the terminal, and then add solder.Plumbing soldering is a bit different, and probably as much a skill as electronic soldering. Of course you don't heat the solder,... | |
| Can an ADCOM GFA-5802 be converted to 220V Ask Adcom if the transformer has a split primary winding (so that it can work on 110 or 220 simply by wiring the windings in parallel or in series). This is very common in modern electronics, and sometimes the connection is changed just by moving ... | |
| Phono stage with gain control? Inpepinnovations,,,That was what we called the extra gain stage that went in front of the preamp when using a MC pickup. Nowadays it is no great feat to provide sufficient gain for MC pickups without additional stages. And I don't think they had a... |