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| Jazz Recommendations Pat Martino: "Live at Yoshi's" with Joey DeFrancesco and Billy Hart. One of the best Jazz recordings.Charlie Haden & Chris Anderson: "None But The Lonely Hart" - beautiful bass and piano duo just before Anderson's death. Much better than Keith... | |
| What value cap to bypass power supply cap? Dracule1, Take into consideration that bypassing large inductive electrolytic caps with small non-inductive cap crates parallel resonance circuit that will ring in response to rapid current changes. Designer did not put them for a reason. I would ... | |
| Preamps waste of money? Dracule1, Hyperions are really sad story. Company had absolutely great innovative product with many awards to practically fold the business down. They had poor dealership base, poor customer support, no marketing etc. I was lucky to still get it. ... | |
| Preamps waste of money? Brighter sound of SS amps is related to Transient Intermodulation distortion (TIM) caused by negative feedback used to linearize output transistors especially in class AB amplifiers. Product of TIM is overshoot of transitions (in time domain) equi... | |
| Interconnects and shielding and what it does. Shield has to drain induced current to ground but we don't know the best, least inductive path without trying. In your case it is thru source. When path is less effective shielding becomes less effective. Induced interference affects purity of the... | |
| Preamps waste of money? Preamp has many functions other than volume control- input selector- balance control (some have tone control)- impedance matching- allows use of balanced cables- breaks ground loops on balanced connections (transformers)- absolute phase inversion-... | |
| DIY Speaker wire Gauge 10 has resistance of 0.001ohm per foot making 10' typical cable (both ways) 20x0.001= 0.020ohm while at the same time inductor in series with the woofer is likely to have 0.1ohm | |
| Tosslink/Optical 1.5m is better for coax, not Toslink. | |
| When to go solid state vs. vacuum? This was posted by Atmasphere on 4/19/12 :"Matching amps and speakers is important!Take a look at this link:http://www.atma-sphere.com/Resources/Paradigms_in_Amplifier_Design.phpThe B&W 802 is designed to work on an amplifier that can double i... | |
| Another cheater plug thread I would think that some return to ground is necessary otherwise system noise would travel from box to box. For instance noise induced in the shield has to find return to ground and it is far better to find direct path instead of currents traveling... | |
| Don't read you'll be sorry Tycobb, Everybody says stock jumpers (plates) are horrible. I use biwired (shotgun) cables but still need jumpers between tweeter and midrange in my 3 way speakers. I use Audioquest jumpers. They come silver or gold plated. http://www.amazon.com/S... | |
| EL34 tube monoblocks that doubles power at 4 ohms 2x power is only 1.2x louder. | |
| "Brand New"...I don't think so I bought once "Brand New in a Box" GPS on Ebay. Box was torn in many places and scotch-taped. Receiver was dead. Seller told me that it is in fact new and it is in the box. He never claimed that it works (he has no way of knowing) or that box is n... | |
| Optimum compressed file for ipod/iphone? You most likely need lossy compression to limit file size. Aple AAC 256kbps (stereo) with variable bit rate (VBR) would give you results very close to original and much better than MP3 of the same size. You can use many programs to convert - I use... | |
| The color of audio and ambassadorship It is not what you need to enjoy particular type of music but rather person's state of mind. My late relative loved classical music and had a lot of LPs but his system was equivalent to very bad transistor radio. He couldn't hear 50% of instrument... |