greg_f
Responses from greg_f
| Recapping Capacitor degrade badly over the years, on/off cycles, heat, overvoltage all affect the life of a capacitor, the older they get the ESR increase and the capacitance decrease eventually. In addition to the power supply electrolytics replace capacit... | |
| Stacking gear no more rack space does it affect sound quality Does that mean if you operate something below its designed temperature span, it will NOT last longer? What component are you referring to? Silicon devices or passive components? As I am sure you know the fabricating processes of silicon devices ... | |
| How many of you are digital only systems? I only use a digital front end. I sold my analogue one few years back, I do miss it sometimes but not as frequent as I thought I would. | |
| Stacking gear no more rack space does it affect sound quality @fiesta I have calculated MTBF as part of the design cycle in several products admittedly nothing to do with hifi. Your point is? Are you telling me that a device operating well within its specified limits will fail prematurely? Sure its performan... | |
| Stacking gear no more rack space does it affect sound quality And heat does not necessarily kill components as long as you keep the minimum required clearance and / or ventilation around the component. Of course you should not block ventilation slots. There are many components designed to operated at very hi... | |
| Stacking gear no more rack space does it affect sound quality For anyone who is concerned about EMI/RF noise radiating from a component and affecting another one, you should realize how EMI/RF radiates. Unless the component generating the noise is fully sealed, EMI/RF will 'escape'. A good product design wil... | |
| Integrated/Power Amp for Vienna Acoustics Mahler @csarcone Good to hear you are satisfied with the AHB2. So you are running them in bridged mode? Why did you feel the need to add a second one? Yes, I have tried the tweeter attenuation but didn't 'cure' my issue. I am moving to a new house with a... | |
| AVM SA 6.3 Stereo Amplifier - Any thoughts? I will soon be in the market for a amp, final or integrated. From the German final amps AVM, Audionet and Accustic Arts are the ones that interest me. Unfortunately I have not heard any of them yet. | |
| Integrated/Power Amp for Vienna Acoustics Mahler @gosta,please let me know your impressions when and if you try the X250.8 and the H30. | |
| Integrated/Power Amp for Vienna Acoustics Mahler @csarcone,Thank you. That was/is exactly my issue, the treble sometimes is too sharp, that is the reason I would like to try something else than Ncore. Before the Ncore I had the Nuforce Ref9seV3 which exhibited similar behaviour. I have read that... | |
| Class D amps seem poised to take over. Then what? It has been said many many times. The Class of the amplifier is just one of the aspects of its design. Things like power supplies, quality of components, EMC measures, layout of the board, internal structure, internal cabling, etc all matter. I ha... | |
| Different amplifier class for different music genres? @minorl An amplifier is designed to amplify the input signal with expected 100% accuracy. It is designed to operate with a flat frequency response over the stated frequency range into a designed for load. The key word here is ' expected '. I am... | |
| Integrated/Power Amp for Vienna Acoustics Mahler @yage I am using the Weiss Filter A, Daniel promised some more filters but never had the time or felt the need to implement them. I was planning of doing exactly what you are suggesting, passing the BAT.@gosta. That is an impressive list of amps ... | |
| Integrated/Power Amp for Vienna Acoustics Mahler @gregm, first of all are we in the same country? :) Thanks for the suggestions, very interesting that you put the Vitus above the Diablo 120 but below the 300. Is there that much difference between the two Diablos? I thought the ASR emitter II exc... | |
| Integrated/Power Amp for Vienna Acoustics Mahler Thanks! I will PM you soon as I will start looking in the next month or so. |