kijanki
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| What could I expect to hear from a Class A amp? Spatine - why do you call it waiting period? Your gear most likely plays at 99% of quality and you can still enjoy music.On my system it takes short time probably half an hour and it might be related to tweeters warming up.If I can toss monkey wre... | |
| What could I expect to hear from a Class A amp? "It seems I have to continue putting up with listen to music late at night after giving the system most of the evening to warm up."Spatine - Can you hear it improving over time. Would you know if amplifier was ON for one or three hours? If you can... | |
| What could I expect to hear from a Class A amp? "On separate issue, would all that heat for 24/7 at full power take toll on the circuit board? Of course the counter arguments would be the on/off as you said, and the expansion/contraction fatigue cycle due to the hot/cold."Spatine - the only per... | |
| Best cable for short monoblock runs? Interlochen - Most of AQ stuff is 99.9999% pure and some is 99.9999999% pure copper. Some manufacturers like Acoustic Zen in addition forge copper into hot forms (continuous cast) to prevent crystal formation (impurities reside between crystals). ... | |
| What could I expect to hear from a Class A amp? "Bearotti, class AB amps usually operate in class A up to some power level"Yes, but won't give class A performance. Much higher signal gain and deeper feedback were already applied in order to remove THD and IMD and you already paid the price. At ... | |
| Who's your guitar daddy now? Sfar - "Dreams of a World" is one of the Grammys and I was planning to buy it next but I am always afraid of Bach. Many excellent guitarists like David Russell are not the best Bach players. I enjoy Stephen Schmidt - Bach "Lute works" played in or... | |
| What could I expect to hear from a Class A amp? Once system becomes linear (by negative feedback or otherwise) it doesn't produce IMD - just look at IMD specifications of class AB amplifiers. Because amplifier has limited bandwidth it introduces delay to signal and negative feedback cannot comp... | |
| What could I expect to hear from a Class A amp? Bearotti - class D is very good at low levels (lows, highs, definition, dynamics, clarity etc) | |
| What could I expect to hear from a Class A amp? Well designed class AB doesn't have crossover distortions because it is removed by negative feedback. There is no THD or IMD but instead hidden TIM distortion. TIM causes odd harmonics (sharp sound) and fatigue (brain fills moments of silence caus... | |
| Who's your guitar daddy now? Newbee - Thank you for Sharon Isbin. I'm just listening to "Romances Latines". The energy is incredible. She has two Grammys but I've never heard of her. It's probably because Grammys presentation turned into hip-hop show. | |
| Preamp Out-Amp In RCA Jumpers for Integrated Dhel - I think my brother's was less than 12" - more like 6" but it was less than $40. Cardass for $80 seems excessive. | |
| Preamp Out-Amp In RCA Jumpers for Integrated My brother replaced U shaped bars between pre and power section in his NAD integrated with Audioquest Python 12" RCA-RCA jumpers. It opened top end and improved clarity. | |
| Strange ground loop...? "Anyone? What is a cable that has a return through the shield?" - That's cable with only one wire (signal) inside and shield serving as second wire (ground/return). Coax cable is an example (BlueJeans cable is made of coax cable). | |
| Strange ground loop...? Djembeplay - I'm still not sure that cable was the problem. In general using shield as return is a bad thing but in case of hum or interference we enter the area of "black magic". Bob is right about your problem originating in unit being plugged i... | |
| Strange ground loop...? "I just hooked up a long run of crappy RCA cable from the analogue outs of my PC." - quality of the cable is probably not important but this crappy cable probably doesn't use shield as return. Try the same cable from the DAC. |