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| Help Me Explain Power Cables to my Guitar Friends Changing power cords might actually hurt the performance of a guitar amp, Unlike hifi, guitar amps are all about coloring the signal, and they are prized for the ways in which they distort. Many classic sounds are based on undersized power and out... | |
| is it just me, new Steely Dan cd's too brite snare One other thing - Becker and Fagan love tight rhythms and are big fans of drum machines (often augmented by human drummers). 2AN uses drum machines on almost every cut. Gaucho, Nightfly, and Kamakiriad also use them extensively. I need to listen t... | |
| Leave cassette tape deck ON using ANY source The problem is that when unpowered the input circuits of the deck can load down line level signal in the preamp, often resulting in a loss of highs. Whether or not this is an issue depends on the architecture of the preamp. If the preamp has buffe... | |
| Buy DVDR now or let standards/technology settle? You can also get a combination DVD/ hard disk recorder with a built in tuner that will record off-the-air. You can record your weekly shows to disk and set them to overwrite each each week. If there's something you want to keep, just dump it to DV... | |
| Second Chance offer Scams on ebay? I got one like this on an eBay item a couple of days ago. The first tip-off was that it came from the individual, not eBay. The second clue was that it didn't include my actual final bid amount. The third clue was that it directed me to contact th... | |
| Aleph 5 - buzzing sound when hot? Send a note to Pass and ask (check the Pass website for contact info). I don't think the Aleph series has adjustable biasing. Is this a mechanical buzz or some thing you hear through the speakers? | |
| Pass Labs x350.5 & Classe ca-m400 class a power? Cdma, my recollection is that pure class A amps pull twice rated power, but I'll look it up. In any event, as true single ended amps the Alephs (except the 1.0, which has an auxilliary pull stage) cannot leave class A and remain linear.They do sou... | |
| Pass Labs x350.5 & Classe ca-m400 class a power? Single ended means that a single active device(or paralleled set of active devices) handles the signal. The active device could be either a tube or a transistor. The alternative to single ended operation is push-pull, where one active device (or p... | |
| I lost my remote for my Teac/Esoteric 700 tranport Teac/Esoteric makes its own transports which are also used in most Wadia gear. I've noticed that Teac seems to use the same remote codes across transport models. If you can borrow a remote from a Wadia product using a Teac transport (WT2000, 7, 86... | |
| is it just me, new Steely Dan cd's too brite snare They all sound fine to me, though in the case of Morph the Cat I've only listened to the DVD-A and not the CD.Do you notice treble anomolies in any other recordings? | |
| Let's add a Spell Check to Audiogon Amen! | |
| Boring but still needed: which VHS VCR? I've always been a fan of JVC VCRs. If you look around you can find a JVC DVHS 3000U or DVHS 4000U inexpensively. These decks do VHS and SVHS as well as digital VHS (480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i). They are built like the older recorders and are probabl... | |
| 2 stereo amps in a mono-block config = 2 x power? It's not psuedo-science - it's electrical engineering. Hook up the two channels of an amp with a common ground in parallel and watch what happens - Hope you don't need the amp afterwards. | |
| 2 stereo amps in a mono-block config = 2 x power? Bridging is one thing, but paralleling is another. You certainly won't get an increase in power by paralleling since the voltage applied to the load will be the same (assuming each output stage has infinite internal impedance), and power is voltag... | |
| 2 stereo amps in a mono-block config = 2 x power? Now, now - the crime wasn't that bad!! Bose is the audiophile death penalty. |