eldartford
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| Preamp output voltage...affect on volume??? 50 vrms from a preamp? Absurd! The industry standard for a CD player (line level signal capable of driving most power amps to near max volume) is 2 vrms. Most preamps can put out about 10 vrms, which is overkill. | |
| Will SACD Formats Play through a Standard DAC? There is a mod shop in Switzerland who will sell you a modified multichannel player (SACD and DVDA) with digital outputs, probably PCM that the standard DAC can handle, for all six channels. They will also sell you the circuit boards if you want t... | |
| MTM vs TM ... advantages/disadvantages ? Shadorne...The off axis "lobing" which you cite is, in my experience, not a real world problem. Perhaps this is because the drivers flanking the tweeter are usually as close together as possible, (1 foot for the 7 inch drivers of my Madisound Odin... | |
| Balanced in phono stages preamp? Ashly pro audio equipment uses what some would call "pseudo balanced" outputs. (Inputs are true differential balanced circuits). In the "pseudo" configuration, the wire that would normally (in a single ended interface) be ground is isolated from g... | |
| Where did tracking error go? Zaike...I didn't mean to say that azimuth angle (also solved by linear tracking) is unimportant. The importance of skating force became evident to me when my Shure V15mr got through the Shure tracking test at 1/2 gram. It took 1 gram to do that wi... | |
| Where did tracking error go? Dan_ed...I don't claim to be an expert on adjustment of antiskating force...in fact the futility of getting this right across the diameter of the LP, along with several other angles and forces, is what led me to seek out linear tracking. With line... | |
| MTM vs TM ... advantages/disadvantages ? The sound projection axis of a MTM goes straight out, whereas a two-driver system axis tilts up or down depending on whether the tweeter is above or below the woofer. Thus the listener's distance from the speaker has less effect on how it sounds. ... | |
| Where did tracking error go? Audiotomb...My system is quite low altitude, but the linear tracking arm benefits are real. I think that elimination of skating force is the most important benefit...much more than the azimuth angle issue. | |
| Balanced in phono stages preamp? A balanced electrical interface is almost immune to spurious signal pickup: eg: hum. When using single ended interconnects I have never had a problem with noise pickup, but I have had a phono cartridge circuit pretend it's a radio. Balanced config... | |
| Where did tracking error go? The term "tracking error" relates to the change of azimuth angle which occurs as a pivoting arm goes from the outside grooves to the inner ones because the record was cut with a linear tracking arm. I believe that azimuth error has more to do with... | |
| Great Speakers - More is More? I have three MG1.6 in the front, so I guess that is half-stacked Maggies. It would be practical to vertically stack MMGs. I thought about this in context of creating high and low left and right front speakers as required for the 2+2+2 multichannel... | |
| why are most new releases going to four sides? Back in the dark ages when vinyl was all I had there was an issue of "sides" that was a real nuisance. An opera or a classical symphony, will not fit on one side and sometimes it was put on several discs. Rather than flip the record you had to rem... | |
| Can you imagine a world without vinyl? Sic transit gloria | |
| if Sony had been around earlier - format wars Avguygeorge...For all its faults the vinyl media does have longevity. The very first LP I ever bought, the show "Wonderful Town" vintage 1949, I can still play on my modern equipment. And of course there are much older ones that I could play if my... | |
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