herman
Responses from herman
| directional cables? Stanwal, I agree completely. I'm not trying to explain how cables sound by looking at the underlying physics, I'm just pointing out that the explanations offered by Mr, Garch were flawed and therefore could not explain what was happening.. | |
| directional cables? Ns, I know your mind is made up and you are locked into the one dimensional world of current flow, but the true analysis of the situation can only be done if you think in terms of energy i.e. an electromagnetic wave that travels from point A to po... | |
| directional cables? Arrows on all other kinds of cables -- XLR, speaker, power, and data -- are utterly meaningless from an electrical standpoint, since audio signals (and wall voltage) are alternating current and interact with conductors the same way in either direc... | |
| Under $10k budget Preamp suggestion, please. The anti-passive nuts may come out of the woodwork but you have a great setup to try it on. A Placette or one of Jeffrey Jackson's transformer based units would work well. Unless you need the gain you are better off without the coloration of the a... | |
| Placette passive and phono stage The 100 vs. 50 ohm is not an issue. They are both much lower than the 9K input of the placette. One has more "punch" because it is just designed to have a higher output. As long as you have it loud enough even if wide open with the ECD and it soun... | |
| Placette passive and phono stage I'm with Raul, at your price point you are much better off with a higher output cartridge. You need a high output cartridge and a phono stage with a low output impedance to mate with the Placette. I didn't see any specs on the output impedance of ... | |
| Reliability of Cary Audio Products Ok, so the comment is from 5 years ago but it still deserves to be bashed but let's be honest - all chokes suck. A choke is nothing but a coil of wire wrapped around a core. They are one of the basic building blocks of passive electronic circuits.... | |
| Pure Music Question PM uses the output device selected in the Audio Midi Setup program found in your Applications-Utilities folder. If nothing else is attached it will use the built in output which would be the optical or analog jack on the computer. If you have any ... | |
| Pure Music Question Since Pure Music is playing the file instead of iTunes I seriously doubt it will ever play through the speakers you have selected in iTunes. What do you mean by "nothing else works." Are you saying PM somehow blocks you from controlling iTunes?. | |
| iTunes Windows/Mac interoperability issue The LaCie was formatted to FAT32. But it trashed after only 2 years of useNot really all that bad. The basic rule is you have multiple backups and expect any drive can fail at any time.It can indeed share across platforms. I share your pain but it... | |
| iTunes Windows/Mac interoperability issue Windows latest format = NFTSWindows old format = FAT32Windows can read/write/format both but can't read/write/format any mac formatsMac can read but not write or format NFTS, can read/write/format FAT32 so this is the one to choose when sharing be... | |
| iTunes Windows/Mac interoperability issue I'm not sure what you are trying to do. Are you just wanting to be able to play the files from either machine? If so why not maintain the database on one machine and have the other machine share it via the iTunes share function?BTW iTunes can hand... | |
| Phono preamp gain setting I'm going to disagree with HDM. I don't see an extra 4dB in the phono stage doing anything that can't be accomplished by turning up the preamp another 4dB, Gain is gain, it doesn't matter where it comes from.If you are hearing that kind of noise a... | |
| Phono preamp gain setting HmmmmmmA $4,500 preamp that gets noisy around halfway up. That sounds like you have an issue somewhere. Are you sure it is the preamp or is that once you get up to that level you begin to start hearing noise that is coming from the phono stage? Ba... | |
| Phono preamp gain setting I have to turn the volume up quite high on my linestage to get the right volume. Excellent, that is exactly what you want.. In an ideal world as you turn it up you should hit the ideal loudness just as you have it all the way up. There is no such... |