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| How good is the McIntosh MC-2300 vs modern SS amplifiers? You must a another Mac on the way as your "nesting" again!http://www.theloop.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/emoji-4.jpgCheers George | |
| B&W 803D crossover caps Phasey??? WTF is that? You have no idea, if you don't know what we're talking about, then continue to bypass your signal caps and you'll never know because you obviously can't hear it.Cheers George | |
| How good is the McIntosh MC-2300 vs modern SS amplifiers? +1 Cleeds, you can see it a mile off, just Mac owners protection mode bias coming into it. He's done it before, with anyone saying anything slightly negative on Mac's.Cheers George | |
| B&W 803D crossover caps I avoid doing this most of the time in crossovers. There are some proven combos, but in general they can sound phasey and strange. "Phasey" An even better description than my "smearing", an overlap of two different cap sounds and time constants d... | |
| B&W 803D crossover caps George:You miss the point. Sorry no you confused the discussion, you said amp (see below) and I said amp and then you bought preamps into it. Most of us with the knowledge know that many sources and pre’s have much smaller coupling caps than what... | |
| B&W 803D crossover caps Not as rare as you think. Did you know the Bryston BDA-1/2/3 all have Al electrolytic (surface mount) coupling caps in their outputs? I said amps, they are preamps, and yes many preamps and sources are cap coupled, but they don't need anywhere ... | |
| How good is the McIntosh MC-2300 vs modern SS amplifiers? I think the Grateful Dead liked HDCD as nearly every album they did was HDCD.https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=Grateful+Dead+HDCD&_sacat=0&_ipg=200Cheers George | |
| B&W 803D crossover caps For example, when an Al electrolytic is used as a coupling cap at the output of an amplifier driving low impedance loads. This kind of amp cap coupled output is very rare to have. I take it it’s tube with no output transformer, but with capacitor... | |
| B&W 803D crossover caps (there are two MKP 100 uFd in PARALLEL with the four drivers) Two cap of the same paralleled in series in the signal path is fine, as both are identical as both have the same time constants. It only becomes a problem when the two are different va... | |
| B&W 803D crossover caps There's no cheap caps on the mid xover I just linked to, Mundorf and M-Cap!!! and no 47nF there is a very good quality 47uF. One good cap of the correct value that B&W worked out that's it, if you look at the 802D MkII photo I linked to of the... | |
| B&W 803D crossover caps dhl93449 There is nothing wrong with this xover in the quality of it’s parts, look elsewhere for your upper midrange brightness. As for the suggestion of by-pass caps, don’t! The only time to use by-pass caps is with power supply caps (decoupli... | |
| Acoustat x value My opinion.If all is working 100% and in very good condition $3-5k for a collector. If not working at all and in poor condition $3-500. for a restorer.Cheers George | |
| How good is the McIntosh MC-2300 vs modern SS amplifiers? Did it really sound that bad? Yeah, to give a visual comparison, it was like looking through frosted glass.I remember sound from that era well, SS either tore your head off with sibilance usually from the US, or so truncated the opposite, usually... | |
| How good is the McIntosh MC-2300 vs modern SS amplifiers? John Curl gave a most informative talk on the Wall Of Sound used by the Gratefful Dead. He had a lot to do with the speaker end of things but had not much to say about the amplifiers which left me curious about them. I think JC was being diplo... | |
| Preamp Advice for my System Georgehifi - My sources are Marantz SA-15S1 SACD player and Music Hall MMf-7 turntable. Your SA-15S1 won't be 3 or more volts, more like 2v, and your phono stage probably won't give out 3 or more volts more like below 2v. So passives and unity ... |