erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| Soundstage disappeared!? Did you by any chance turn off your system for the first time in a while, and then try again? | |
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| Power amps into surge protector/Conditioner or DIRECT to wall? Final verdict? You know gang, I was just thinking about how our location can really affect our perception. Ages ago I heard that the Florida power grid gets hit by 1 lightning striker per minute during the rainy season. Living out in LA, and San Francisco, I don... | |
| Power amps into surge protector/Conditioner or DIRECT to wall? Final verdict? No. And eriks comment is misleading. Its nothing to do with line surges. The current fuses protect against is current draw resulting from a fault in the component itself. So my comment was misleading, but you here assert nothing which contradic... | |
| Power amps into surge protector/Conditioner or DIRECT to wall? Final verdict? a Krell 250wpc stereo amp survived in spite of not being connected to any passive line cond oddly enough.They have those big transformers protecting everything after that, kind of how series mode protection works, unless they have enough capacitan... | |
| Power amps into surge protector/Conditioner or DIRECT to wall? Final verdict? Use a Furman with SMP and LiFT at a minimum. They start around $180. That's where the best noise reduction and surge protection is. They're also very low impedance, and with power factor correction added (Elite series) they can actually be better ... | |
| Center speaker channel indicator light If it's just a signal indicator, it may be you are just getting a little crosstalk. That is, isolation between channels is not perfect. If you play loudly, you'll get more cross channel interference and the amp thinks you have something on the cen... | |
| A Vandersteen trade that makes no sense Sell your Vandys yourself, or find a local vandy dealer. | |
| Conrad Johnson ART amps - Watts at 8 ohms vs 4 ohms The transformer is part of the issue. It boils down to effective output impedance. Think of it as a resistor in series with the speaker. As the speaker impedance drops, more of the amp's voltage appears at the amp output stage, instead of at the s... | |
| I'm having a really hard time with: "Power cable reduced my soundstage"... Shielding, when done properly, can be effective. I say “properly” because most unbalanced audio cables use the shield as a signal-bearing conductor. Exactly, and noise, as well as surges, can be induced from/to the power cables directly. An EMP... | |
| I'm having a really hard time with: "Power cable reduced my soundstage"... Hey @sleepwalker65 : Truthfully, the lightning surge was mitigated by the sacrificial action of MOVs in the power conditioner. The Furman Elite does not use MOV's for electrical surge protection (but may for coax, not sure). It is of a class ca... | |
| Europe / USA There are a lot of Class D amps that can do this readily enough. Sometimes it's best to look at the amp's rear panel pic. | |
| I'm having a really hard time with: "Power cable reduced my soundstage"... I am a little surprised you felt that strike at all, @tom8999 was it very close? If so, I wonder if a shielded power cable would have done better? | |
| Wharfedale Linton Heritage 85th Anniversary I'm sure they will have values. Based on reading others, I recommend Clarity CSA or Mundorf MKP's for the tweets.If you find a big electrolytic, it will be the woofer, and it IS worth changing out for a Mundorf bipolar or Axon or CSA. | |
| Center speaker channel indicator light Can you be more specific? What brand / model amp are you talking about?? |