jeff_jones
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| Your fav online resource for high end gear is.... Audio asylum is a good source for leads, this forum can be too but you've got to have a well developed Troll filter and remember that some criticism won't get posted on a sales website forum. Trusted peers are the best source for leads. After read... | |
| Hi-Fi Power Conditioner ? Richard Gray makes a good technically sound pc for a fair price, assuming that what you need is an ac grunge eater. An industrial priced isolation transformer on the upstream side like the one Krell man noted (Sola makes a good one too), follwed b... | |
| High Mass Tonearms and Cartridge Matching Axelwahl - "If a manufacturer quotes 'dynamic' compliance at 10Hz or as the Japanese mostly do at 100Hz, I dare say it is something other than 'static' compliance, yes?"Yes. Would be interesting to find details of their measurement methods & a... | |
| High Mass Tonearms and Cartridge Matching Compliance matching is one of those audiophile things that gets blown way out of proportion (in my opinion). The compliance number you get from a cart supplier is typically just static sag in the vertical plane so it tells nothing about cartridge ... | |
| Step Up/Down Transformers - Good or Bad? Gregadd - I'm giving up at this point. Regards. | |
| Step Up/Down Transformers - Good or Bad? Gregadd - "tube designs can sound quite neutral." Agreed, but would they still sound neutral without signal distortion? I think that the electrical distortion which creates the illusion of natural acoustic distortion, or tends to fill in the signa... | |
| Step Up/Down Transformers - Good or Bad? Hmm. 1. We all like specific types of disortion in our audio. My personal favorite is the high magnitude even order harmonic distortion that you get with vaccum tubes.2. It seems reasonably well established that distortion in the upper frequency r... | |
| Step Up/Down Transformers - Good or Bad? Me - "twice the volts gets you twice the amps". In context of electrocution hazard. Ngjockey - "BTW,twice the volts is half the amps". In context of transformer characteristics. Alberporter & Detlof - Thanks for the feedback. 'Damage dynamics'... | |
| Step Up/Down Transformers - Good or Bad? Detlof - Thanks for the feedback, am trying to understand. I assume you are specifically refering to power transformers and not transformers in the audio signal path? | |
| Step Up/Down Transformers - Good or Bad? Gregadd - I think your buddy would tell you that twice the volts gets you twice the amps, when other factors are equal. He is right though when conditions are right it doesn't take high voltage to drive enough current to hurt or kill. Glrtrgi - I ... | |
| Step Up/Down Transformers - Good or Bad? It is an improvement rather than a problem from an incoming power quality perspective, as long as it is not undersized. Some of the audio power conditioners sold for significant $'s are not much more than a 1-1 transformer in a fancy enclosure (fw... | |
| Ac cords or power conditioning first? On all applications I know about outside of audio (where instruments are used to verify effect), it is dedicated lines & power conditioning, period. That is the way I went for noise control on a wide variety of industrial equipment and for my ... | |
| TUBE AMP REPAIR If you talk with Rogue they might be ok with sending you a schematic, I don't know their policy but it doesn't hurt to ask. This would give you the option of using a good local electronics shop. If you are interested in a little tinkering sometime... | |
| VPI phono cables. Is there better synergy? I suspect that finding a cable that likes your cartridge, or better yet is likely to work well with a variety of cartridges, is closer to the mark than buying a cable based on which table you have. For what it is worth I like cardas neutral refere... | |
| And the "Best" Dynaudio monitor is...? C3's perhaps. Price point was too high for a monitor to sell well & C5 was probably the better overall speaker choice for most, but C3's were pretty special. |