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| pure silver speaker wire I can only guess you are going to use it for a power cable? Is that right?Mechans (Threads | Answers | This Thread)I wouldn't trust it for a power cable myself. Silver is stiff and breaks easily, including stranded. Wire in that size may be more e... | |
| MM Phono Input impedance change 47k to 100k ohms With no disrespect to Raul, you just can't always go by what he says. He uses ADS speakers, that have always been lacking in the midrange, to somewhere where they blend with the treble. I've tried those speakers a short time in their day. A friend... | |
| Fuses that matter. Tbg, my comment was meant for Vinw. I know at least a half dozen audiophiles in my area. We go years back. When any of us get something new, we listen to it at the owners house, and then pass it around, if possible. I can't imagine anyone in this ... | |
| Fuses that matter. If you are suggesting blind listening test, then none of the other audio tweaks mentioned will pass the test either. Vinw (Answers | This Thread)Vinw, the other tweaks like coupling caps may not work that way in your world, but they do in my world... | |
| Fuses that matter. Do you believe that two amplifiers with identical specs but different topologies and components would sound the same?Would one amp using cheap caps, transformers and wire and another using upgraded caps, silver wound transformers and silver wire s... | |
| Fuses that matter. CD players have a sonic signature.Turntables have a sonic signature.Phono cartridges have a sonic signature.Amps, preamps have a sonic signature.This list can get fairly long, and go on and on. And all of these components, and parts, could be meas... | |
| a solid state amp that is recessed in the treble Sorry, I bought the MC2300 in the mid 1970s. It was new, and not out of spec. | |
| a solid state amp that is recessed in the treble I wonder if the newer transformer coupled solid state Mcintosh amps still have the mellow highs, like the old ones did? I bought a MC2300 in the mid 1990s, and sold it shortly after due to the mellow highs. Back then, I wanted the opposite. | |
| bookshelf for classical music under $2000 I definitely agree with staying away from the metal, and other hard dome tweeters. Stay with soft dome tweeters. Possibly, Spender, and Dynaudio, and others without the metal dome. I've seen this problem brought up a lot of times. A lot of metal d... | |
| Amp & Speaker matching If you run a 16 ohm speaker on an 8 ohm tap, you may get around a 3 decibel loss in volume. On some amps, this can be a risk. It depends how they wound their transformers, and to what impedance they're loading the tubes to, plus other design chara... | |
| Sota sapphire question-power supply fuse rating? If it is actually a .25 amp, a 250ma would be the same amperage. Make sure you use the same voltage. Sounds like it's a 250 volt. | |
| Can my amp drive the Paradigm Studio 100s With some A/V receivers, they're OK running two channels. If you start playing action movies that runs several channels at the same time, then their power drops a lot lower. Here is an example of an another Denon rated at 140 watts. | |
| Nasty slap echo Picture #1 link here.Picture #2 link here.I don't know if trying one channel at a time would make it easier to find or not. But anyway, see if you could have someone walk around holding up a large bath towel (stretched out of course), to try and b... | |
| Stylus Drag 06-04-12: HalcroNewton's First Law of Motion:-The velocity of a body remains constant unless the body is acted upon by an external force.'Friction' is an 'external force'. Why do you think a motor is required to keep a platter spinning?Step into t... | |
| Stylus Drag I personally can't imagine a platter that only weights even 5-10 pounds being slowed down enough by a short complex passage, to be bothersome. These turntables weight over 150 pounds, so, a good portion of that must be platter weight. If a record ... |