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| "Krell" is a buzzword Krell did come from the Forbidden Planet.... I own a Krell KSA200S and love it. I've heard a lot of other amps that sound as good but it depended on the speakers that were matched to them. Krell's have one technical specification (current non-limi... | |
| Can I convert my 4ohm speaker to 8ohms? Don't go messing internally with your speakers. You in effect would be changing the crossover specifications. You'd almost certainly screw up the matching, the phasing of the speakers etc. You're going to have to get new speakers or think about a ... | |
| Can I convert my 4ohm speaker to 8ohms? Yes, but it would be a terrible idea. You can put a big oil bath 4 ohm power resister in series with our speaker but that would be rediculous. Check your speakers impedence curve. The Linns may be nominally 4 ohms but what is their minimum impeden... | |
| SACD - Another year and ... The Dec 00 Stereophile has several articles that really muddly the water. Seems the technical discussions are saying two things. The watermarking of the DVD-audio format sucks and does leave audible artifacts. Second, the DVD-Audio is a better for... | |
| Leaving Class A amp on all the time Try leaving it on if you can afford the electric bill. Class A amp have an idle current for bias that draws much more power then any other class of amp when running silent. | |
| Is the Cassette Recorder Dead? Well no one has talked about the economics and how they have changed. You can purchase CD-Rs for about $0.30 each. Try buying a cassette tape blank for that. These are only good on computer type CD players but can be played back on most audio syst... | |
| Digital RCA vs AES/EBU connections Garfish's explaination is correct but not for digital connects only analog. The AES/EBU looks like a balanced interconnect but the AES/EBU receiver chips have not similarity to the balanced circuitry on the analoge side. AES/EBU shares the common ... | |
| Do CD-R's sound the same as originals I think CDRs sound fine for listening to MP3 sources or in the car. On my home system they are clearly marginal. Why? I think the primary reason is jitter. The CD burners clearly don't have the jitter specification that the original stamping proce... | |
| Audio Research vs Sonic Frontiers Sold a Ref 1 and got a SF line 3. Am very happy with the trade up. Ref 1 and a previous LS2B were both too bright. The SF is totally neutral, cheaper, has better definition, resolution, and base. The one area that just can't be a matter of opinion... | |
| How to measure the power output? This is a very dirty but within 10 percent method. Get a 100 watt light bulb. Set your multi-meter to measure amps. Run your amps power up till you hear clipping on existing speakers. Hook up the bulb and meter in parallel with your amp output. Ru... | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music Sibelius' Swan of Tuanela | |
| Goertz cables- any feedback? Got the Micro Perl and Saphire and the Divinity speaker ribbons. Love them all. Use balanced interconnects and they replaced Wire World 3x more expensive. Improved my system considerably. Can't say they are the best because that depends on your sy... | |
| Signal to Noise Ratio Rockvirgo - you are correct. S/N is the measure of noise below 0db level, whether the music is at that level or not. Typically music rarely plays at 0db. In an analog system such as a tape deck, 0db is already into some distortion. At +3db most ta... | |
| Phono Preamp acting as a Tuner. Help! I don't think its your phone preamp. Rather its your phono cartridge and the cable between it and the pre that are acting like an antenna. Move the cable around and if the distance is short coil the cable. Moving the coil so its not facing the dir... | |
| TUBE or SS? I think the matching of amp and preamp is emphasizing the wrong pairing. I find that matchning the amp with the speakers is more important. Discounting magic solutions like Krell's CAST, the amp preamp interface is not full of hidden problems. The... |