kijanki
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| Leave solid state amps on? Or turn off everytime? Musicnoise - Power-up transients don't do more harm to electrolytic caps than constant ripple current, but increase by merely 10 degrees Celsius of temperature inside will cut capacitors life by half. I addition we won't be able to unplug during t... | |
| Speaker cable length I wonder why nobody mentioned inductance of the straight wire. It runs in order of 0.5uH/ft and for 27feet of cable it is 13.5uH. At the frequency of 20kHz it represent impedance of 1.7 ohm. Use even lengths for the left and right speakers.Resista... | |
| Which power amp to try? According to similar thread some time ago Tine dancers work great wit Bel Canto S300 and Ref1000 - class D Icepower amps. Ref1000 is probably overkill but s300 or Rowland model 102 (same thing as S300) might be right fit. | |
| XLR vs. Phono Cables I second what Shardone wrote - Don't do it. Not only that levels are small but also low frequencies are boosted by phono stage. In addition cable's capacitance my interfere with your cartridge. | |
| Suggestions for "balanced" interconnects? Within $1k you can get Acoustic Zen Absolute (I use 0.5m XLR) - hard to beat according to reviews. | |
| CDP or DAC with DVD player Braudio7 - I have the cheapest Sony DVD player ($69) with Benchmark DAC1. It is connected with 1 ft 75 ohm coax. In addition TV is connected with Toslink and I'm planning to make another connection to my MAC Mini using Toslink and Toslink/XLR adap... | |
| Speaker shock absorbers Musicnoise - hockeypucks might be to hard. Vibrapods are constructed of special rubber specially for that purpose. My speakers are also around 90 lbs and very rigid - (a lot of cross boards inside) but floor is not (basement). Originally I had spi... | |
| Speaker shock absorbers Musicnoise - I use Vibrapods. I placed one under each corner. They cost $5 a piece in weight ranges 1-5. I have 5s at the front (heavier) and 4s under back corners. It was one of the best things I bought. Bass became short well control and very ev... | |
| Who uses what Class 'd' modules? Dram temporary, Flash slow - no hope for me Guidocorona. I couldn't find anything on Mark Levinson page about No 52. Do you know that Mark Levinson is owned by Harman Industries that owns:AKG Acoustics - microphone/headphonesAudio Access - A/V con... | |
| Who uses what Class 'd' modules? Guidocorona - what list?..... | |
| Balanced or Unbalanced? Musicnoise - I use balanced ICs because my power amp has only balanced inputs. Balanced cables have shield grounded on both ends (not very good thing) and are used by professionals (other than noise reduction) because of male/female system and con... | |
| Leave solid state amps on? Or turn off everytime? Tvad - Class A amps consumes about 8x rated output power per channel. Leaving on 100W class A amp will waste 1600W of power. I don't even leave on my class D amp because I don't see any good reason for it. It doesn't take long to warm up the amp -... | |
| Leave solid state amps on? Or turn off everytime? As far as I know the only perishable component inside is electrolytic cap. The most influential factor on the life of electrolytic cap is temperature. Every 10deg Celsius increase in temperature means cutting life of capacitor by half. 10 degrees ... | |
| Sound through Macbook vs DAC Mimberman - I think you're right it was DAC3 and it was more than $2000 (maybe $2500). | |
| Who uses what Class 'd' modules? I think I got this wrong - Linn uses switching mode power supplies but not the output stage. They claimed in 2006 that Class D won't be mature enough for next 10 years. |