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| Speaker wire... Diy? Audiogon...where experience means nothing. Happy delusional trails!!Dave, you may like a particular cable in your system in your room on your program. Fair enough. But I could come over with my program and be underwhelmed. Ditto you here.I have b... | |
| Speaker wire... Diy? Helix Cables are utter nonsense, as is the verbiage on the web page.The same current flows in all parts of a circuit. The -ve terminal may remain @ 0v relative to earth ground, but it is positive relative to the +ve terminal over ½ cycle and thus ... | |
| Speaker wire... Diy? Just get some Duelund 12gaTalk about overpriced low tech. Little different than THHN 12ga @ 50¢/m.It may sound a little different, but unlikely better. | |
| Speaker wire... Diy? Cables interact with the system. There is no guaranteed better. All the various geometries are tone controls. They may sound well in one system/room, no different in another and terrible in a third.A large reason for the lunacy of the audiophile w... | |
| Ahhh--Problem solved. Adding a REL sub-bass unit... I said "I like 1st order high pass on the main amplifier" - that means that you roll the low end out of the mains.A single capacitor in series with the amp input works beautifully. | |
| Ahhh--Problem solved. Adding a REL sub-bass unit... RELs don't do it this way, they are designed to pick up where the mains drop off.That, my friend, is nonsense.If the sub has controls, the user chooses where to integrate. No two rooms or systems are identical. Move a complete system from one room... | |
| Ahhh--Problem solved. Adding a REL sub-bass unit... I was a recording engineer. I produce live concerts. I’ve taken RTAs to venues for decades.There is very, very little sound below 60Hz. A double bass is ≈41Hz on open E. A bass drum after ring can have some 20Hz-ish sound, but only in some halls. ... | |
| Recommendation for higher power tube amp +1 on VTA M-125.I've owned several KT-88 amps since Citation II way back. These are gorgeous sounding. Drive 4Ω Spica TC-50 with ease.If you are at all handy, buy the kit and assemble yourself. I'm an engineer, could have easily done, but couldn't... | |
| PRIMA LUNA AMPLIFIERS EVO Balanced I/O are transformer balanced. This is neither good nor bad, but raises costs and may change sonics with some gear.IMO, PrimaLuna is losing the plot and just making amps more gimmicky. | |
| Blue Jeans Cable Sound Good??? @ teo_audioMost recording studios are wired as I explained. Isolated ground receptacles with earth home run to central star.Grounds are never connected to shield - nor should they ever be.Screen will do nothing for hum - except introduce it by cre... | |
| Blue Jeans Cable Sound Good??? CAT cables are balanced end to end. The patch panel is grounded, but the cable shield is not connected at the source / destination equipment end.When the screen is connected at one end only in twin or star-quad, it functions as an electrostatic sh... | |
| PRIMA LUNA AMPLIFIERS I rolled the supplied el34’s to KT 120’s to power sonus faber’s that needed more to drive them.Installing KT-120s would not change the power appreciably as B+ does not change. Sound and life could change. | |
| PRIMA LUNA AMPLIFIERS Love my Prologue 5. Beautifully built. Zero problems.Any competent tube amp tech could fix one in the unlikely event that something went wrong.They have a 'gorgeous, romantic' sound. | |
| Bias adjustment on solid state amplifiers Depending on where the feedback device is located, there may be a considerable time lag to the thermal compensation device. Consequently, many designs are under biased to preclude thermal runaway.Transistors with on-die bias diode offer better per... | |
| Caps for crossover upgrade for Opera Grand Callas Loudspeakers Or not.Model up all the LC & ESR and thing can get ugly fast.This is not to say that adding a bypass won't alter the sound. It's just that all might not agree that it is an improvement. |