holmz
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| Moving to the UK - Need Transformer @jomonhifi What brings you there?Work, school, etc.?I hope you enjoy it.If the UK is anything like the colonies, then I would suggest practising looking both ways when you cross the street. The leading cause of death for US and Canadian tourists i... | |
| Why so many tubes? Why they have so many tubes and why their prices are (excessively) high?One would think after 117 years of evolution (1904, invention of the vacuum tube) and with only 4 other components involved (R, C, L, transformer) engineers would have reached... | |
| Moving to the UK - Need Transformer Where are you moving to? They sell them there…I am using a 230v to 115v transformer still. And when the Preamp people said $750 for their 230v power supply I politely hung up the phone.There is a small hum from the transformer, but absolutely quie... | |
| Why are there no tube televisions anymore? Probably because we see what we want to see… With audio we may see it more in our heads.Since we cannot see it we are probably prone to making stuff up. | |
| On ''what there is'' What does that have to do with anything? Well I made it a minute in (almost) and it was seeming to be a religious talk.So we in Europe have build 27 km long particle accelerator in Cern to prove or refute the existence of Higgs particle.CERN being... | |
| Combining home theater with two channel Does the Emo/450w have RCAs for the L/R fronts?If so you might try running those into the integrated…It may be the preamp section of the Emo more than the amplifier section. So a way to figure that out could be worthwhile.Confirming that those... | |
| Audio Research and Acme Audio Labs fuse At $20 per fuse, isn't the risk/reward ratio in your favor?Assuming that there is an actual reward.If not, then it is all risk (money, breakage, fire, etc) | |
| Class A into Class AB The meters on home audio gear are almost never calibrated and more often than not mislead rather than informHow coils they be accurate when they often report < 1W ? | |
| My Experience With Tekton "Block out lowest bass and all highs.You only want to know whats going on in the critical midrange, say 300hz-3khz."Seriously? Not saying the midrange isn't incredibly important (when judging a pair of speakers), but it isn't everything either...Y... | |
| Which Room is Best Between These Two The website explains it. Here it is from link I gave you: "The so called "Bolt-area" indicates a accumulation of good room ratios. If the red cross lies within this area you have a good chance of more evenly distributed modes."Put in different dim... | |
| Class A into Class AB I do practically all of my listening in Class A - if you believe those seductive dancing meters :-)I believe you and the others, including myself, that in an RMS sense… it is mostly Class-A.Just the crest factor of a lot of music can be ~13dB. So ... | |
| My Experience With Tekton I try to put all the cards on the table.Nice | |
| My Experience With Tekton “ I realize you measurement folks don’t care about the sound, but what about “measurements”? Your next reply: if there is any measured difference, it’s small, and beyond auditory level of any human. Why even bother “Weak ... Predictably weak !I t... | |
| My Experience With Tekton Your Fezza example is certainly different than a Pinto though.The difference between a Skoda, a Pinto and a Ferrari is that we have measured results for acceleration, cornering/skidpad, braking, etc for all those vehicles.No one I have seen, has e... | |
| Audio Research and Acme Audio Labs fuse But why let a reason to get a nice new tool pass by?On the other hand I would be asking ARC if the fuses make a difference. |