ghostrider45
Responses from ghostrider45
| Is a good Cermic Cartridge an Oxymoron? Mario_bThe Micro Acoustics 830CSA wasn't Ceramic. It used capacitive elements charged by electrets (the electrostatic equivalent of permanent magnets - they hold a permanent charge. As the stylus moved one plate of a capacitor formed using the ele... | |
| Are some of us cultish in our beliefs Cultish? How could you think such a thing!Excuse me while I go sacrifice some virgin........vinyl.... | |
| distortion at the end of record Just to add to an earlier post:The record spins at a constant angular velocity (33 and a third RPM for LPs). The linear velocity of the record at a particular point with respect to the stylus is equal to the effective radius of that point (i.e. th... | |
| Newbee about Ceramic tube socket From an engineering perspective the advantages are better heat resistance and better resistance to high voltages and arcing. This was especially imporatnat with transmitting tubes that could easily have 1000 or more volts on the plates.I can't com... | |
| Pantode and Tetrode What is the difference? Let me put on my 1960's tube hat for a minute....A triode has one grid, called the control grid. This is where signal is applied for amplification, and bias voltage is applied.A tetrode has a second grid called the screen grid, between the control... | |
| Matching pre-amp with Pass Aleph 30 Unless you're using extremely long interconnects or interconnects with unusually high capacitance the difference between 47K and 50K won't be important. Have you considered a Pass preamp (Aleph or X series)? I'm using an X 0.2 with a pair of Aleph... | |
| getting rid of two-way radio interference? Jea48 - as long as the transmitter is operating on legal frequencies, using legal modulation, at legal power limits and from a legal location then the transmitter owner has fulfilled his responsabilities under FCC regs. The ham license typically i... | |
| getting rid of two-way radio interference? I'm a ham (WB5KKO) in addition to an audiophile. Most of the time when gear picks up a radio transmission it's the fault of the gear, not the transmitter. FCC regs say that as long as the transmitter is operating properly (and they usually are), t... | |
| the more bits the merrier? The CD format is 16 bits with a 44.1khz sample rate per channel, period. You cannot get more resolution than this from a CD.In theory, a high quality 16 bit DAC is fully sufficient to extract all information avaialable from the CD. Making a high q... | |
| Is a Audio Alchemy compatible with a Monarchy DIP? If the DIP outputs an 88.2 or 96 khz signal as a result of upsampling then the DDE V1.1 will not be able to decode it. | |
| Reverse Matched Triode Tubes Thor is using dual triode tubes (looks like 12AX7 family tubes). They define "reverse matching" as matching triode 1 of tube 1 with triode 2 of tube 2, and triode 2 of tube 1 with triode 1 of tube 2. I don't understand why they use this topology i... | |
| Have AZ Martrix Ref II's/ Compare to Silver Ref 2 I have a couple of pairs of balanced Matrix Ref II. An ohmmeter check confirms that they are definitely wired correctly for balanced operation, so that wasn't the reason that you heard no difference.I've noticed that the original single ended Matr... | |
| Have AZ Martrix Ref II's/ Compare to Silver Ref 2 I'm currently moving towards all balanced cables in my system and have a number of Matrix cables, which I really like. In going to balanced I have the option to mix in some Silver.I've found that there is less difference between different balanced... | |
| Loudness of TV Commercials It's not just that they're louder - they are also highly compressed and limited so that the average level is almost the same as the maximum volume level. The sponsors want to be sure you hear all about male erectile disfunction while you head to t... | |
| Using balanced xlr cables increase volume?? When properly implemented a balanced connection is 6db stronger than a single ended connection. A balanced cable carries a differential signal consisting of a positive leg and a negative leg (also called hot and cold). The negative leg carries an ... |