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| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? .I'm dumbfounded you would continue to defend what is clearly just plain wrong. You are evidently just making stuff up as you go along this time.That is absolutely not the correct use of the term. It means something has half it's life left, not th... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? .Marakanetz. capacitance could be OK but ESR and/or leakage too high. It is doubtful a 50 year old electrolytic is still in spec.Rrog, half life is the time it takes for something to decay or decline by 50%, it is not the time it takes for 50% of ... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? .Ralph, can you back that up with some references?Curious where you got 1/2 fail in 20 years. Even if true, given that the lifetime of a particular cap is inversely proportional to operating voltage and temperature I fail to see how this is useful... | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters .I agree you have more power and gain than you need but that is not causing your problem. In any case I think everyone is over thinking this. Now that we know you did not have an issue with your previous preamp isn't the problem obvious?......Befo... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? .You will get opinions from electrolytics last forever to they need to be replaced every 10 years. The truth is they do wear out but the the variables are too great to make an accurate prediction of when. The 10 year people may be overly cautious,... | |
| Itunes ? .That might work but iTunes finds files by storing the path to it in the library. The backup would have to be an exact duplicate having the same name and same file structure as the original which is doubtful. If you renamed it to match the old one... | |
| Active crossovers .I am triamping and Pure Music has a built in crossover that works seamlessly with the RME. Crossover points and slopes are adjustable along with polarity and gain. Very flexible. You can add whatever plugins you want if you want EQ or whatever. I... | |
| Airport Extreme to DAC .Most people advocate an SSD drive and maximum memory of the newest versions. Older Minis were limited to I think 3 GB but newer ones go to 8. You can order it that way from Apple but it is cheaper to get the extra stuff elsewhere and install it y... | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters ,Since you asked......An SET amp is in my opinion the only amp to pair with them. Bottlehead is a great value if you can solder and follow directions, and you can easily learn to solder. There is a used pair of monoblocks for sale here now (no aff... | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters .Yes sir, pay as you go. It wasn't a criticism, it was a suggestions. Sorry if it came off any other way.. | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters .What Dtc saidIMHO your amps are not an ideal match for your speakers. You have way too much gain and even though price does not always indicate quality you have a $3,500 preamp with $300 amplifiers. I think you need to pony up for an amp that is ... | |
| Airport Extreme to DAC .What Sfar said, but you could use a Mac Mini in the rack and if you wish run it without a monitor or keyboard once you get it set up. You can control it from another computer, iPad, iPhone, etc. You can store your music files on a drive to the ex... | |
| Itunes ? .that sucksI assume you can see that drive otherwise?You could restore a time machine backup from before you updated.You could load an older version of iTunes http://www.oldapps.com/itunes.php but the new version may have altered your library so i... | |
| Active crossovers .I used a Behringer before I switched to this set up. It was highly modified and did sound pretty good. The output opamps were bypassed and I used Dave Slagle (Intact Audio) transformers, the clock was replaced, and a linear power supply used. I'm... | |
| Active crossovers .You don't mention a budget but you could go the computer route like I did. Take a look at my system.The Behringer is amazing for what it costs but you'll get a LOT better performance with a pro audio interface like RME and others.. |