jeffreybehr
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| Which is better, gain in phono stage or pre amp? My opinion is that if you're running the level control of your line stage only a little open, you're risking overloading its input stage with the HIGH output of the phono stage. I'd use the phono stage's low-gain setting.PS. It's a 'moderate-OUTPU... | |
| center ch. as LCR ? Your trio of centerchannel speakers will do just fine as L/Rs but will have the correct hi-frequency-dispersion pattern only if they're arranged horizontally. Ever notice that some 'center-channel' speakers have their tweeters (and MR drivers, too... | |
| which power tube sounds better: EL34 or 6550 My understanding is that the best of the EL34-based amps might have a more tonally rich* midrange, but a less-defined bass. The 6550/KT88-based amps will sound a little-more balanced throughout the 10 octaves--that is, tighter bass, more-detailed ... | |
| DVD-A vs. music or concert DVD in DTS Generally, I prefer the sound quality of hi-res DVD-A, but I find DTS-equipped DVD-videos to be quite listenable. | |
| Tubed-amp power-supply question Awesome indeed. TYVM. | |
| How to add a high pass crossover at the amp inputs Good idea for what? If it's to add a single-order to 'block' low frequencies from the subsequent speakers, it'll work.A Search for 'filter formula' turned up this thread. http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?htech&1090637736&read&ke... | |
| Power amp for a 98 DB speakers from 60Hz up Try a c-j MV60 in triode--25wpc if I remember correctly. This current version of their long-lived, stereo, 2-pairs-of-EL34s poweramps* is so good c-j discontinued the Premier Eleven. About $3000 new, $1600 used, I think.* that started with the MV45 | |
| Newbie question on 6.1 speakers - rear As I understand it, 6.1 has 3 surrounds, left, right, and center. If one parks the L/R surrounds at the c. 4-o'clock and 8-o'clock positions as the ITU standard recommends, a surround-rear would serve to fill a hole in the (rear) middle. | |
| Moving to Tucson, AZ http://www.azaudioclub.com/home/index.html | |
| Trade-off between soundstage vs. PRAT What's PRAT, besides an undefined acronym? | |
| DVD-A recording titles to die for I agree with Eldarford--I push Play and they all play in multichannel mode.I think that's selected in the player's initial setup. | |
| Monoblock Suggestion? If you haven't already chosen amps, consider using a pair of tubed stereo amps in mono. With a tubed amp, one merely runs the 2 channels in parallel and ends up with the combined power into half the indicated output impedance. For instance, an ine... | |
| Large Can Power Caps Compatibility Question They look OK to me. The real rating you have to be careful about in Power-Supply (= electrolytic) caps is the max-voltage rating. You NEVER should use an electrolytic cap with a voltage rating LOWER than what was there. (Audiofile-grade film caps ... | |
| DVD-A recording titles to die for First, my principle criterion for great-sounding classical recordings is naturalness--I want to be transported to the concert hall. With that in mind, all of the several Naxos clasical DVD-As ( http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/default.asp?label=Naxos... | |
| What is "slope"??? "Ezmeralda, Jeffrey -- thanks for the the clarification on the slope values. My memory doesn't seem to work quite as well as it once did ;-) Next time I'll confirm before I post."You're welcome. Happens to us all. I had a poor memory when I was yo... |