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| Speaker ports and impedance Yes, if you mean a speaker driver. A driver's impedance, by definition, is a change in resistance at different frequencies at constant voltage. While impedance depends on electrical factors, the driver's surrounding also affects the impedance.A dr... | |
| what is dynamic headroom? Don't worry about the dynamic head room spec - a lot of ss amps have a value less than 1.0, including the big ticket ones. This value can be relatively meaningless if the duration of the extra power is not specified.As far as damping factor is con... | |
| How to stop upgrading and aviod going bankrupt???? ... one of us, one of us, gooble-gobble, one of us... | |
| Which Beethoven's symphony do you like the best? The Fifth. Makes me simultaneously angry and happy. Not too many other pieces do that. | |
| Mos-fets or Bipolars Bipolars provide a higher current delivery than MOS-FET's, an important "bass control" factor. | |
| I have a lack of depth in "soundstage". Distance to the back wall is part of the solution. You should also experiment - first start out by:- Place the left and right speaker the same distance from the side walls- Place the speakers from each other the same distance as your listening pos... | |
| Capacitors: Who is Right? What ages them faster? I have seen data sheets that give operational life as much as 300,000 hours (34 years), with a shelf life as high as 10 to 15 years "...without deterioration of quality". What will affect the life span is the ambient temperature (if too high, the ... | |
| What seperates "hi-fi" from "mid-fi" in cdp's? It's the same thing that seperates every other component from great to not-so-great: the power supply and output stages. The better cdp's are usually more expensive because they use premium parts for power supply, filter caps, voltage and current ... | |
| Paper Cones in HiFi? Not true at all. "Paper" tends to denote taking the cheap way out but is in fact a complicated mess of fibers, polymers, resins etc., engineered for light weight (has to react quickly), high rigidity (prevents deformation) and longevity. Paper's b... | |
| OT home wiring What you describe is not strange at all. In fact, it's common practice to wire the neutral and ground wires to the same bar. Take a look at panels with romex wiring - the greens and whites terminate on the same bar in most cases. The reason is tha... | |
| I have dedicated lines, but why is this happening? Two things you can check:The central ac unit may have a problem such as a faulty compressor (overheats?), pull-in contacts, loose wiring on the motor, loose wiring in the circuit (wire nuts, j-boxes, etc), loose fan belt on the blower, or a bad lo... | |
| Could the transformer be eliminated? The big problem is the surface area and the thickness of the ESL drivers - the bigger they are, the higher the voltage. A typical ESL has voltages in the thousands. This presents the problem of having to supply a very very low amperage; even the c... | |
| Hyperbole Watchdog Forum I agree. It will lift a haze layer from these forums presenting a clearer window into our thoughts. | |
| Isolation/coupling: basics? Take a high powered telescope. Look through it first on a tripod and then while holding it in your (trembling) hands - that's basically analogous to what vibrations do to an electronic signal. | |
| Will dedicated power lines eliminate ground loops The short answer is: not necessarily. Try to minimize the number of dedicated circuits. Ground loop hum probability increases with each grounded power cord you plug into different outlets on different circuits. Sounds counter-intuitive, but one ci... |