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| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. For the googlth time, source to speakers in a room is a system.Using the same cables as a store demo is no guarantee.For example, if every component on demo is laid back, the cables may be ear-bleeders in another system with still great, but more ... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. There are so many cable brands because it's easy to make money out of itBingo!Reading some of the FAQ, one has to wonder. Claims are made for unaltered transmission, but anyone can calculate the EQ effect of the sundry designs into various loads.S... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Mike, PLEASE read Galen Gareis' articles on PSAudio. These articles are as good a primer as you're likely to find. Although Gareis works for Belden, he's not grinding their axe.https://www.psaudio.com/article/cables-time-is-of-the-essence-part-1/h... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. I use Transparent Audio interconnects and Belden 1311A speaker cable in a self-designed bi-wire. Every few months I replug connectors as IMO, cables don't burn in, connections deteriorate. But hey, I'm a dinosaur engineer from the last century.Tra... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. choosing cables can be a true nightmareIt's only nightmare because people have unreasonable expectations fueled by ridiculous manufacturer claims and utter nonsense from non-technical self-appointed experts.Plain and simple, cables are subtle equa... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Mike, http://ielogical.com/Audio/#PowerConditioning is the link. It’s Linux, so case sensitive.Failing that, http://www.ielogical.com then Passions then HiFi then Audiophilia Redux and scroll down to Power CONditioning about 80% of the way down. [... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. I wonder what they are putting in these wires that cost so much?HypeMike, I hope you don't end up with a pig in a poke. Components need to be synergistic. Assembling a system based on reviews and fan-boy recommendations alone is fraught with dang... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Clearly absolute time alignment isn’t a requirement if Focals do it as well as they do.They do not image at all well.I'm talking about a 3D image with instruments correctly positioned and no wander as they play their range. Instruments should rema... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Meh... Some like to make big mountains out of the mole hill of phase. It doesn’t seem to matter all that much. Except to those who have heard properly phased systems and know how a sound stage should be presented because they created it.I recorded... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Kosst, did you read what I wrote? I said they are colored relative to another design. This applies to all devices, especially loudspeakers. I always read the entire article and comprehend all measurements and graphs. One often has to read between ... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. It's a very good amp that I built and tuned to suit my speakers, which are the best $4000 would buy me in my estimation. Kosst, I'm guessing since you spent $4k and have Focal, probably Aria 936. Stereophile measurements and comments, https://www.... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Kosst_amojan, Class A is hardly 'ideal'. It suffers from very poor efficiency, shortened component life [heat is a killer], enormous size and higher $/w.ALL amplifier classes suffer from intrinsic failings. The key is to forget about theory and co... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Ignore all specific recommendations. They aren't worth the bits to transmit them, little more than fan boy ravings.NEVER forget you are building a system. You could assemble the 'best' of everything and still have the sonic equivalent of the Texas... | |
| Where to put one's best power cords?? Assuming power cords make a difference and a typical system of power conditioner, signal source, pre and power amps there are 16 [2^4] combinations. Double for each additional component TT, CD, DAC, EQ, DSP, etc.Bonne Chance @@ | |
| How to make low end digital sound "not terrible" on higher end systems? I own tube equipment. I should have said "Lossy compression bears no relationship to the original uncompressed signal and the lost information cannot be recovered, therefore tubes will not help."Tubes may soften some of the more egregious artifact... |