kijanki
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| Variac or not? I would power it at about 70VAC for one day. Electrolyte in electrolytic capacitors eats up dielectric (aluminum oxide) lowering breakdown voltage. Presence of voltage rebuilds this layer. 10 years is about the time I would start worrying. | |
| S/PDIF-how different than an IC? If you don't match characteristic impedance between source, cable, and destination you might get reflections in the cable on impedance boundaries. These reflections can modify (add to) transition edge. Such modification, can create staircases on... | |
| T6.3AL250v Fuse: Slow or Fast Blow??????? https://www.swe-check.com.au/pages/learn_fuse_markings.php | |
| Would I have enough power? Maggies are less efficient at 86dB, but also are specified for 2.83V and 4 ohm (at 2W). Specification at 8 ohm (or 1W) would be 3dB less resulting in 83dB vs 88dB for A26. 5dB difference is equal to 3.2 times more power required. You would have... | |
| Ethernet vs 5G Streamer Tech Considerations for Sound Quality CD quality stream is 1.4Mbps. 4G is 100Mbps. 5G is 10Gbps. The question is how you plan to feed it into DAC? | |
| Would I have enough power? It depends on the size of the room. In smaller room, when distance to speaker is about 2m (6.6ft), it should be OK. At 15 watt it will be around 100dB - pretty loud. | |
| biamping with 75 watt solid state and 18 watt tube amp.klipsch rp600m...t 75watt and 18watt amps will have different gains. How are you going to adjust for that? | |
| Master Clock questions - cable length etc Signal in the cable reflects on impedance boundaries, so matching characteristic impedance of the cable to output/input impedance of your gear is important and the cheaper cable might be a better match in your system than expensive one. If your m... | |
| "Amplifier Noise Floor" and hum acceptable? My Rowland model 102 (class D) - absolutely perfect silence.My Benchmark AHB2 - absolutely perfect silence.Both are silent even when listening in close proximity. Audible 60Hz is not acceptable IMHO. Since you tried more than one amp it is likel... | |
| Replacing Bel Canto S300 blown ASC200 module It is the same 200ASC module. I still have Rowland model 102 based on the same module. 300W specification, as golfnutz stated, is based on 10% distortion. Rowland rated it only for 200W. As I remember I took very long time (few hundred hours) ... | |
| Help an old man out I had (still have) Rowland 102 - a class D amp based on the same module (200ASC) as your S300. I liked it a lot, but eventually replaced it with Benchmark AHB2. It is wonderful, cool running amp, that sounds better than Rowland 102. Everything ... | |
| BS Node 2i: WiFi or Ethernet..? I don't have Node 2i, but in general you only send data (in packets) over WiFi or Ethernet. As long as data sent is the same - sound quality should be the same. If anything, WiFi should be better, since Ethernet can inject electrical noise (in s... | |
| Why do you need so much power? By the way 80 watts sounds only about 3X louder than 8 watts.Should be only 2x louder. Perceived loudness is equal tok^(1/3.5), where k is ratio of power. For 10x power it is equal to 1.93 10x power is equivalent to 10dB sound level increase equal... | |
| USB cable Audio2design - It makes sense. Thank you. | |
| Why do you need so much power? Perhaps for the size of the room. When listening point is 2m away from the speakers your your speakers will deliver 93dB from just 1W. There will be 6dB drop for double the distance, but 3dB gain from room reflections and another 3dB from the pres... |