fiesta75
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| LCR meter Yes I have tested and replaced many capacitors in older equipment. The suspect ones are near sources of high heat generation. The caps replaced range from 20 to 80% low on my cheap tester. I would highly suggest you buy one, mine was less than $30... | |
| Heat in class A equipment It's thermal cycling that kill electronics faster than staying at a constant temperature. Think you did a post awhile back about capacitor life? | |
| Heat in class A equipment 44 years for Phase Linear. | |
| Metrum DAC Burn-in? Yes, 200 hours or more, | |
| TEKTON OWNERS 🙃 | |
| Active vs passive crossover All fuses degrade sound. You never want a fuse in series between the amplifier and speakers, ever. | |
| JBL Everest 6600 + Mark Levinson 585 amp. Those JBL's will work and they can handle a lot of power. I would bi-amp for sure! | |
| Heat in class A equipment All caps need to be 105C rated or higher. | |
| Doesnt resistance mean same as impedance?? +1 Erik | |
| Could You Tell a Tube Integrated from a Solid State Receiver If All Else Were Equal? Yes I can tell the difference, but I did not look at the video.😄🙃 | |
| Active vs passive crossover +1 russ - With passive crossovers, it's much easier to protect the drivers too. I don't use any components between the drivers and the amplifier outputs, just wire. Somewhat risky for the drivers, but worth the risk for the sound improvement to me. | |
| Class A: Accuphase vs Pass Labs house sound? I do like the sound of Accuphase amplifiers, very clean sounding. Between the two I would choose Pass, but I'm a transistor guy. | |
| DAC Question: Delta-Sigma vs R2R R2R dacs can use either discrete resistors or resistors located in a chip. I prefer discrete resistors. | |
| Looking for speaker wire (bi-wired) suggestions for two types of speakers You would notice the biggest difference if you went to horizontal bi-amping instead of bi-wiring. Good wires are similar unless we are talking solid silver wires. | |
| Thorens TD-160MKII Channel Imbalance To me it sounds like you've narrowed it down to the cartridge itself. Am I missing something? |