holmz
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| Why do I need power management if I have a great power cord? Yup, caught that. Shorted or driving Acoustats 😁 Talk about a vicious load for an amp. They were the reason for Ampzillas and Crown DC300 amps! The DC 300 would drive a cast iron pipe or a welder! 🤣 I have a 300A welder. However I do not use it... | |
| Class A or Class D solid-state amplifiers (modern designs) What is AGD? | |
| Power Cable Break In - Such a Change! That video is not an explanation of complex physics, it’s pseudoscientific baloney. The soft voice and accent makes it sound credible though. | |
| When a speaker does not sound right, how do you know which part is wrong? REW and a UMIK microphone would be an objective way to start. Sniffing the cross over parts with the nostrils will likely need to happen at some point. But it be a driver. One could swap the crossover between left and right. If the problem moves... | |
| Solid State Phono Stages I would suggest the transimpedance jobs are likely worth a listen to if you use MC. (Sutherland makes one) | |
| Which tube spots for which affects? Everything is important to the sound. It would make a cute jingle if it were true. | |
| Why do I need power management if I have a great power cord? Other contributors to this forum also seem to assume that the capacitor banks are there to help the amplifier deliver transients to the speakers outside the range of their normal current demands. Capacitors are the are the only source of pow... | |
| Class A or Class D solid-state amplifiers (modern designs) But..no. Typical corporate systems, is what most innovators will run into. A given boardroom of ass-wipes who are paid for how aggressively they can steal from and malign any innovator who is foolish enough to get close to them. For Purifi and ... | |
| Warm but holographic & forward vocals. IMO a drive to Sacramento to listen to the 2C and the Sub would be worthwhile. They want $1200, for that second hand set. Current RRP for the 2Ce is $5650 for the speakers, and that sub was at least 2k back in the day. And that was considered a g... | |
| Current Questions Yo Holmz, I appreciate the effort but you lost me in the first line. Rails? Volts? In the the equation V = I R, I assume that V is volts but what is the other stuff? V = Volts I = Amps R = Resistance Still, there may be some gold in the ... | |
| Speakers for string Quartets I had a pair of Totem Arros that worked very well within those constraints, in a small to mid-sized room. The speakers disappeared, the center image was very clear, the mid range was beautiful. The price was under $2K. Chief say, “totem pole... | |
| Current Questions Take a typical amplifier with a set of 28V rails, V = I R So I =V/R A speaker with an 8-ohm impedance would need a maximum of 3-1/2 Amps A speaker with a 1 ohm impedance would need 28A 4-ohm = 7A 2-Ohm = 14A Which is why those impedance p... | |
| DIY TT There was a host of posts appear about the perception of improved SQ within systems be noticed. The period was known as the unprecedented period for using modern HiFi, as the Grid Power Supply was not being drawn on in a capacity that is usual, ... | |
| Why do I need power management if I have a great power cord? I’m a power supply guy and it occurred at a show in a discussion with Nelson, who is also a power supply guy. But whatever the minimum impedance is for your speakers, then divide the 50V rail by that impedance… and whoo-la… we get the maximu... | |
| Speakers for string Quartets This comes up often and the answer is always the same: Any well designed speaker will reproduce any music sent to it as a "music specific" speaker is simply silly. ^Agree^ Piano and vocals are the hardest to fake as we are pretty evolutiona... |