holmz
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| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality @audioguy85 Vandersteen power amps have 128 volt DBS for good reason :-) Enjoy your great cables ! Jim I do not think that they are running that 128 or 72V on the power cable side though. | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... @ieales No mention of calibrated microphone or calibration standard. Both are necessary. Not in the context of a relative measurement to set levels for comparing things… And not in the context of understanding that 90dB is 10dB more than the... | |
| Intriguing inquiry, are floor-stand speakers always better than active speakers? If I did not already have an amp(s) etc. I would be considering the active speakers. The Genelecs and Kef are pretty good and it gets better if one can run balanced lines to them. There is a review on the new small Genelecs (8331A) and they are $... | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... Try to understand my point without repeating a common place evidence... A bad electronic design or a corrupted source CANNOT be compensated or repaired by a room acoustic... Who does not know that? Who? 😁😊😎 Ok @mahgister I get the room stu... | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... @mahgister it does not matter how well one treats a room in terms of the direct path sound. If that sound is filled with distortions, then no amount of room treatments can work by going backwards in time to remove the distortions. One would hear ... | |
| How to tell the current from the amp I get the case where you have double the wattage with half the impedance, but such case only show the device is qualified as high current, but now by how high as a quantifiable measurement. It’s only a relative measurement. So there is no one mea... | |
| Primaluna or Octave to drive Dynaudio X34s I am currently running a PrimaLuna Dialogue HP into Vandy 2Cs. (Similar sensitivity) However the subwoofer removing a lot of the low notes likely helps a lot. I would suggest that using a sub would likely be a benefit to freeing up the amplifier.... | |
| How to tell the current from the amp Most amplifiers are voltage devices that provide voltage gain and voltage based feedback. The idea that they shove current out in a massive burst is not going to happen unless the speaker’s impedance is headed towards zero. You may want to provi... | |
| Power Conditioning on the Cheap I think he is saying you cannot fix a non existent problem @carlsbad | |
| Speaker system Headphones? | |
| My likes and Disappointments with the Pro-Ject Record Cleaning Machine Well done sir. | |
| Inexpensive speaker cables: any experience? These CHeLA cables are not cheap, and they remind me of a Kimber 4TC or 8TC. And they have low inductance. https://www.vhaudio.com/speakercables.html Has anyone used these in a DIY setup? Maybe I’ll order them or just try the Kimber 8TC… His... | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... @ieales FWIW, I’ve never measured a tube amp output voltage into a loudspeaker that was anywhere close to what an SS amp delivered into the same load... going back to the 70’s. Admittedly, it’s a small sample, and largely irrelevant as measurem... | |
| length of interconnects for passive preamp they are unshielded and were inexpensive - but were MUCH better than the other 2 - so I may purchase shorter ICs from him or send the 3 meter back and have him make 2 pair of shorter ICs. ^That^ sounds like a wise plan. IMO. | |
| length of interconnects for passive preamp So I guess we agree ! - to some extent 🖕 I guess we are getting the finger onto the pulse ^here^? Back to your twisted wires with the oversized insulators and also the cotton. There is a lot of talk focussing on the materials and the geom... |