fiesta75
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| Need some advise please on a 30 year old system You said these were in storage for 8 years, was the system operated before then? If off for 8 years, that's not too long for an SS amp. The Spectral preamp has a separate power supply, so you can power up the power supply without connecting it to ... | |
| Is this normal? No pictures, no buy. I don't care much about feedback, he NEEDS to show what he's selling. I agree, move on. | |
| So how can a great system solve less than great recordings Everything starts with the source material. Anything after the source material is just masking shortcomings in the original material. While some equipment will help with the overall sound, I think you know how important the source material is. I h... | |
| testing a crossover Okay so MC said bi-wire and not bi-amp, big deal, I knew what he meant. At this point we know there's a short somewhere. Could be shorted caps, but we need more info. | |
| Replacement capacitors exploding I concur with rodman, half, I was mistaken about the same value in my previous post. Sorry for the confusion... | |
| Rotel Mich P5 vs McInstosh C49 Mac's SS stuff is also excellent. Not many SS amps hold their value, especially if they are more than 2 channels. | |
| SONY Power Amp question: I guess that depends how loud you want to listen. They are 88dB @ 1watt, so that's 108dB at 100 watts. Since the Sony you say is 120 watts, I'm assuming that is into 8 ohms and the M5's are 6 ohms, for me, I would get more power. I think the bigge... | |
| testing a crossover I agree with MC's dead short analysis. Are you b-amping using the passive crossovers inside the speakers, or are you using an active crossover at the inputs of each amplifier? If you are using the passive crossovers in the speakers, then there cou... | |
| Class A DEscrete opamps new design I checked these out, but I'm not going to consider them for my application. Looks too klugey for me, but thanks. | |
| Class A DEscrete opamps new design Interesting, I will check it out. Didn't know they made class A JFET opamps. I'm going to upgrade my CD player soon and these sound like the way to go providing the specs are close to the original opamps in the player now. Are the item #'s listed ... | |
| Need some advise please on a 30 year old system By all means keep it and use it, all of the equipment listed is high quality! I would invest in a variac transformer to use when first powering each piece. This will reduce the chance of electrical damage after not being powered for so long. The t... | |
| Rotel Mich P5 vs McInstosh C49 For me, McIntosh all the way. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Dada - El Subliminoso | |
| Replacement capacitors exploding Only true about higher voltage in some applications, like this one. Not true for DC supply voltage filtering! | |
| Replacement capacitors exploding rodman99999 - Thanks for the link to Madisound, good info to have around. itsjustme - Not so good... |