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| Equipment Break-in: Fact or Fiction From my experience, after about 20 to 30 hours what you hear is what you are (stuck?) left with. I agree with Marakanetz - the sound does not magically improve after a "break-in". What I noticed, whether source, amp or speaker, is only the imaging... | |
| Why would 1 SS monoblock run hotter than other? The KMA-100 operate in class A, meaning they're always pushing the same bias currrent throught the transistors whether at full power or idle. The continuous current flow generates steady temp heat which is ejected from those huge heat sinks on the... | |
| How much for two 20A lines? About $100 an outlet plus material markup. This is assuming you have space in the panel for two more breakers. If not, then it's up in the air since the only option you'll have is a subpanel. You'll need to have the feed-thru lugs freed up in orde... | |
| A Little Hypocrisy? If you spend $50k on a car, should you then not be upset if the price of gas goes up by a nickel? The difference, I think, is that with gas, cd's etc, are items which have to be purchased in order for your toys to work. Therefore you feel that you... | |
| Diodes vs. Triodes To simplify: a diode, aka rectifier in tube terms, has two pins - one lets in the positive and negative ac voltage and the other lets out only the positive (or negative). This sort of creates a DC current and is the first step in the power supply ... | |
| Re-wired to 30 amps? Speakerdude, I disagree; probably many insurance adjusters will also. It is not a good idea to run a 30-amp circuit regardless of any potential sonic improvements. It goes against electrical codes and for good reason. The limiting factor here is t... | |
| OT: Windows XP Update Service Pack 1 Me too. More problems created than solved. Uninstalled it and never looked back. | |
| Re-wired to 30 amps? Mitch, check your local codes. Typical residential circuits are 15 and 20-amp for general power and lighting. Almost everywhere I know of you are not permitted to have more than one receptacle on a circuit rated greater than 20-amps. Not only that... | |
| Output filter Caps Sean: no disrespect taken whatsoever...my mistake - I did not make it clear that my off-the-back-of-the-matchbook calcs were for EACH channel; not the total. Again, I make no claim that I can "re-design" the power supply better than the designers,... | |
| Output filter Caps Lincoln: In response to your email about replacing the stock 22,000MF caps with 27,000MF caps... From what I remember, the DH500 is rated at 250wpc/8ohms. Which means that it is probably a stable voltage source down to 2 ohms (250wpc/8ohms 500wpc/... | |
| What's wrong with Thiel? I also agree - nothing wrong with Thiel's. I have owned Thiels for quite some time. There is a downside - a sort of a Catch 22 - they will sound their best with SOTA electronics. Not only sound their best, but actually compete with speakers that c... | |
| Output filter Caps Yes and no. Yes the "rewards" are a higher reserve peak current that gives better low frequency extension and control, frequency dynamic range etc as stated by Sean above. But...By increasing the supply capacitance, you are forcing the transformer... | |
| Help. Dead Levinson 23.5 Go with Madrigal's suggestion - the service is not as expensive as you might fear it to be. What you have, as far as I can read, is a blown AP-5 circuit board. They'll replace the board, not just the damaged part(s). Call them for a shipping carto... | |
| Help for power conditioning of changing current A power-conditioning isolation transformer will help - especially with a 10% voltage swing. Try http://www.sola-hevi-duty.com/products/powerconditioning/Index.htmOr http://www.mcmaster-carr.comLook under "transformers" "power-conditioning". I know... | |
| Do tubes last longer in Preamps than Amps? I would suggest the CAT preamp for Krells. Performs perfectly with my Levinson 20.6 mono's. Only uses single-ended cabling, though. The line and phono stage tube compliment costs around $120.00 to $200.00. If you don't leave it on all day and nigh... |