holmz
Responses from holmz
| Occasional Sound Imbalance Issue Buy a cheap PC scope. When the problem happens, disconnect the speakers at the speakers and connect 8Ω dummy loads Measure a 1kHz square wave on the speaker cables simultaneously on both channels. If the waveforms are identical, it's the spea... | |
| Occasional Sound Imbalance Issue The amp at the end of my last post I touched on oscillation. The specific speaker cables, if they are high capacitance, can sometimes cause an amp to go into oscillation. it seems like you are making progress, but it would not be unthinkable to ... | |
| Occasional Sound Imbalance Issue @holmz I’d agree it is likely a connection issue if not for the fact that I can move any component in my system and the problem materializes instantly! Very frustrating. Also of note is that it is not related to restarting my digital devices, ... | |
| Occasional Sound Imbalance Issue Is it: a dodgy cable termination? or… a dodgy connection on a piece of gear? | |
| Ultimate stereo nightmare OP. Start by evaluating your preamp by doing this. Switch the input interconnects AND the output interconnects SIMULTANEOUSLY. Play some music. If the RIGHT channel is still not working then the problem is in your pre. If instead the LEFT channe... | |
| Synergistic Orange and purple fuses popping The hot end is the forward end of the fuse which as you say goes straight in to the power supply. How does that work with it being AC? | |
| Ultimate stereo nightmare I live in the New York area (Long Island.) The Johnny Rutan of AudioConnection in NJ is pretty well respected. | |
| the question of changing ethernet cables What is the problem that is being solved? How does it manifest itself in the sound? | |
| Your suggestions: Headphone + DAC/Amp combo? My point is that measurements only matter regarding what we can hear. If we can’t hear already low THD levels, what’s the point of making them even lower? Also some good points in other places of your last post. The claim is that a tone captur... | |
| Cheapest but good cables…. I usually use Mogami too, but I lashed out on some of this: Of course you need to dress the ends yourself… exactly the same as using Mogami. I think that the Benchmark has SpeakOn connectors?? If so Neutrik SpeakOn is easy, and their stuf... | |
| Impedance and Sensitivity Mostly loudness. More than a few modern amps can be set for 20 or 26 dB of gain. My preamp has a switch to add in +10 of gain for driving say a 20dB gain amp. It is always nice when the low level volume is around 9 o’clock and we never hit full ... | |
| Your suggestions: Headphone + DAC/Amp combo? What was your handle on ASR? (I did attract a 2 week ban a while ago, and their use of banning and suspension, can be a bit intolerant.) I got an RME, but most DACS are also about features… and I am not really a DAC guy. I suppose if you use t... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused Isn't the bulk of amp/driver "match" really about coordinating [the same] dynamic range of each section of a complete system? I mean an active system cannot be considered high end if it clips its HF amp on the tweeter before the LF amp clips o... | |
| amplifiers tube vs. solid state @hershey2010 I have been wondering the same thing about my system. Currently running both SS pre and amp but was wondering in going with a tube amp. I really like the idea having best of both worlds I would think to start of that route is to go ... | |
| amplifiers tube vs. solid state As @mulveling mentioned… check the input impedance of the existing SS amp, and the output impedance of the candidate tube amp. I run a tube pre now (one from 98 to 2022, and a different one since last year.) Sonically they are similar. I have ru... |