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| Cary SLI-80 with one blown rectifier tube, BUT STILL WORKS just fine. How? See if the tube is cold (carefully!). If it's cold and no glow, tube is dead and will not work. The only explanation is there has to be a diode in series with the rectifier. | |
| What’s your favorite recording of Mahler’s 8th Symphony? Horenstein (London Symphony Orchestra 1959). One of the best, performance-wise in my opinion, and with Pristineclassical.com remaster it in 24-bit stereo makes it that much better than the BBC Legends release. | |
| A better lamp cord for my stereo equipment? If that older equipment is Class II double insulated then no service tech is going to play around with changing power cords unless the new cord fits into the existing grommet and the cord has no grounding conductor. So if that lamp cord on your un... | |
| Loud popping sounds after warm-up If the popping is just as loud with the volume down and is in one channel, I would suspect a bad solder joint on or near an output transistor. | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions The Yggy is plain awful for the first couple of weeks -- too bright and a condensed front to back soundstage.Wait after a month of being continually powered on and you will hear a profound difference -- especially on red book CD's. | |
| Psychological effects of volume control Sounds like the old DAC had a higher output voltage. Generally, preamps see 2VAC (single ended) from sources but some CD players and DACs put out as much as 8 volts. | |
| The longest you have owned any gear? My whole system practically. Twenty five years ago I stopped with Mark Levinson 20.6's and the 23.5, the CAT SL-1 preamp and the Theil 3.6's all wired up with MIT Reference cables. The only thing new is the digital front end (Aurender N100H and Sc... | |
| What formats does the Yggdrasil DAC support? gdahl:The Yggy with the Gen 3 plays everything. After the 5 card was installed it did not play 24-bit wav or aiff. It does play all flac files and 16-bit .wav and .aiff.The Aurender reads and plays the 24-bit wave and aiff but for some reason the ... | |
| What formats does the Yggdrasil DAC support? All PCM formats are supported. (No SACD or DSD).But I am curious about one thing: since I got the Gen 5 update the Yggy no longer plays 24-bit .wav or .aiff files from an Aurender N100H. Both companies point the finger at each other so I converted... | |
| Odyssey Stratos- need schematic Are there rail fuses visible to do a continuity check? | |
| McIntosh C50 USB Input Not Working It could be the C50 is demanding too much power from the Mac. You can try an external USB 2.0 powered hub. As always, you first have to see if the problem can be replicated on another MacBook and another cable before you blame the C50. | |
| Why don't amplifier Companies use high end fuses? Two reasons: one is that a $100 component is a big cost with respect to the rest of the electronics. That costs more than all the output transistors in a high end high power amplifier.The second reason (I’m guessing): the fuse makers cannot or wil... | |
| DC leakage from power amps If this happens on both speakers, then I agree with Herman it's volume setting/listening levels. The chances of both monoblocks passing through excessive DC on startup is minimal, especially before this happened you didn't hear any thumps on ampli... | |
| DC leakage from power amps Does this happen on that one left speaker only and is that speaker always connected to the same monoblock? | |
| Design a $60,000 Speaker - Start here Where I would first start is to look at the market and ask what is this $60k speaker going to offer that other $60k speakers do not? |