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| music drop out--new router In my case Microwave Oven was operating on one of the frequencies. I changed the channel and it helped. Eventually I got 5GHz router (since my Airport Express receives both 2.4/5GHz)and set it to 5GHz. Now it is perfect. 5GHz is not very popular, ... | |
| New level of ridiculousness Two oil businessman discussed new cars drinking beer at the local bar. They decided to go and buy newest Cadillacs. When it came to paying for cars, one reached for the wallet while the other stopped him and said:"Put it back John, you paid for th... | |
| Replace volume pot Marakanetz, I can attempt to help but have to see schematics - at least of this section. I built my first amp (100W tube 2xEL34) when I was about 15. Later when electronics became my profession I lost interest and now prefer buying instead of buil... | |
| Why do audiophiles shun feedback in amplifiers? Atmasphere, It depends how tight is tight. Acoustic bass is the tightest type because of the very longest scale. On the other side of the spectrum is Paul McCartney's Hofner Violin bass that has very short scale and horrible definition. I believe ... | |
| I'd probably lose this bet.... Speakers are pretty benign with nominal 6 ohm dropping to 3.8ohm worst case but have no idea what happens with phase. Part of crossover is in epoxy - cannot tell what values or even what kind it is. Cable on the other hand is pretty strange. It ha... | |
| Replace volume pot Marakanetz, It looks like it is not straightforward but rather some convoluted combination of Volume and Balance with addition of Phono. I wouldn't touch it with a stick. As for technicians - it is different (from designer) set of skills. Technici... | |
| Why do audiophiles shun feedback in amplifiers? Atmasphere, Now I got it. Thanks! | |
| Why do audiophiles shun feedback in amplifiers? Dracule1, Read this:http://www.stereophile.com/reference/70/index.html | |
| I'd probably lose this bet.... Atmasphere, First speaker cable I had was thick stranded Monster cable (clear insulation). I found later that it is possibly the worst type of cable because skin effect starts in copper at 20kHz at gauge 18 causing smearing but also because same s... | |
| Devices, desktop player, formats, etc BannonB, one sentence appears to be missing in my post. MAX is a free utility program for Mac that allows to rip CDs (better than I tunes) and batch-convert any format to any format.Ideal program should rip CD as data (I set MAX in that mode) forc... | |
| Why do audiophiles shun feedback in amplifiers? since IM will occur at the feedback nodes of the amplifier, resulting in a harmonic noise floor (rather than a natural hiss noise floor caused by component noise).Atmasphere, I'm not sure I understand it. IM is caused by the presence of two freque... | |
| Devices, desktop player, formats, etc BannonB, I batch converted about 250GB of ALAC files into 50GB of 128kbit VBR AAC and put it on 64GB microSD card. I use it in my Samsung Galaxy S3 phone. MAX is for Mac but there are similar programs for Windows. | |
| Why do audiophiles shun feedback in amplifiers? Can an amplifier with no or minimal negative feedback in play make a CD recording that might be irritating otherwise normally not irritating?Mapman, you basically asking if it is possible to make amplifier bad other way than NFB. I'm sure it can b... | |
| New level of ridiculousness And how do we know that if a careful and genuinely open-minded comparison was performed in a $300K system between that power strip and a variety of $500 strips, that one of those relatively inexpensive strips would not provide sonic results that a... | |
| Why do audiophiles shun feedback in amplifiers? Charles1dad, It is possible but perhaps not very common. Everything depends on definition since even single unbypassed cathode resistor is NFB. |