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| Skeptic or just plain hard headed Some items are more given to burn in improvement than others. Case in point; cartridges and speakers have always sounded better after > 60 to 100 hours in my systems.Those are mechanical systems, like shoes, and take time to loosen up.Cables, O... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. We abandoned switchers as they were always audible. So rather than A-B, we had C-D or C-C. We were pretty meticulous in keeping paths as identical and as clean as possible having only the relay contacts as the additional connector.One thing we nev... | |
| Skeptic or just plain hard headed ALL cables affect the sound and how a particular cable does is totally system dependent. see http://ielogical.com/Audio/CableSnakeOil.php Connectors outgas and oxidize and usually result in a worsening of the sound.Cable cooking is nothing more th... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Jim B did Dynaco 400, SAE, GAS and SUMO products. Brilliant guy. | |
| Any meaningful differences... Pots wear and log pots don't track particularly well.The problem with stepped pots in passive preamps is they need to be mated to the driven device. When the input impedance changes, so does the taper. If the R values are adjusted to provide accur... | |
| Anyone compared GoldenEar Triton 7 with Triton Reference? Would you additionally be willing to give your thoughts on the technical description of the Spatial M3 Triode Masters?They would not be my choice as they rear radiate from 800Hz [700Hz in the spec?]. I prize imaging, not sonic wall paper.800Hz is ... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. π² != 6.282π = 6.28 | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. The solder joints just fall apart from vibration. Interesting. My Force is still going strong after 15 years. Pre ROHS.Two good questions for sub makers :)Another is "Why provide such useless controls?" Many subs are clearly not designed to be int... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. I would like to hear how each of you figured out how much power you needed to buy in watts?Never bought by power. Always purchased by sound.Currently have 100 and 150w SS and 40w tube84db 1w / 1m. min 3.2Ω, max 16Ω, mean 7ΩLoud level is 90db C wei... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. @cakyolI predict that these capacitors will be in a vicinity with a temperature of about 60 - 65 C most of the timeDefinitely use 105°C parts.Cap ESR goes up with age, so while the C may still be good with old parts, the increased ESR will play ha... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. If a system is not broken and has serious deficiencies cables will likely not correct the problem. How can they?I'm not suggesting cables can cure a serious deficiencies. However, since cables interact with the amplifier and the loudspeaker, they ... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. The whole idea of tuning a system with cables seems rather weak to me.The missus once said "Those wires are the only ones where the clarinet sounds like a clarinet." [She had perfect pitch and played the clarinet.] We had decent amp and speakers, ... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. And, with regard to the great interconnect debate: do you know of any testing done that approaches that of scientific blind testing that shows that any given wire, if made out of a certain material, and wound in a certain way, and shielded in a ce... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Keep in mind just because a unit has a XLR input that is no assurance that the input is balanced.A balanced input is no guarantee of better sonics. The devil is in the details.Every audiophile should read Bill Whitlock's AES paper"An Overview of A... | |
| Anyone compared GoldenEar Triton 7 with Triton Reference? Nola - NOT!They will be a phase nightmare with an incoherent image.Their product sheet is laughable buzzword bingo: These drivers employ advanced technical features such as edge-wound Kapton voice coilsKapton is an insulator, so a voice coil made ... |