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| ampllifier design If you want to use EL84s as output tubes . . . they're a good candidate for traditional Ultralinear loading, operating class-AB1 with cathode bias - you'll get a solid ten watts with very respectable distortion.Choice of driver tubes of course dep... | |
| Of f Topic Short-Wave Radio Maintenance Question Er . . . no offense but the information here is too vague to recommend any course of action . . . there are two issues.First, what is the component being described, and what is the symptom that you're trying to fix? If it's an air-variable capacit... | |
| Looking for some 'grass You might do a search for the thread about Jerry Garcia & David Grisman, there were many great suggestions there . . . including the essential Old & In the Way recording on Acoustic Disc.Another incredible, but often overlooked, bluegrass ... | |
| Reel to Reel Let's see . . . I had a Stellavox TD-9 I used for live recording, and as a mixdown recorder for recording projects in small or home studios. I also had a modified Teac 3300 that I used as a playback deck for Stella's recordings on my home system.B... | |
| xlr vs. rca- volume gain There are no exact standards about the signal levels between components . . . the "IHF 250mV" level and the "Red book 0dBFS=2V" levels are specified, but only very loosely conformed to by manufacturers.This is true of how unbalanced vs. balanced c... | |
| No power A TGS200 that's lasted this long?????? You're very, very lucky indeed.When I worked on these things many, many years ago, common failures were in the HV power supply. But by now it could be anything . . . | |
| FLAC or Windows Lossless for music archive? There is no audible difference between Windows Lossless and FLAC. None. Zip. Zilch. Anyone claiming to hear a difference is making things up.This is absolutely correct -- these codecs are indeed lossless. It may be possible that there are some pro... | |
| B&O Beomaster 2000 on the fritz You will find many on these forums that can only speak ill of Bang & Olufsen . . . pay them absolutely no heed, as their impressions are usually founded on complete ignorance.IIRC there were two models called "Beomaster 2000" . . . the first w... | |
| Best Ortofon? IMO the OM20 (nice nude eliptical stylus) is where the OM series starts to show its potential, it's worlds better than the cheaper ones. The OM30 is a step better, with a fineline stylus.IIRC the compliance also goes up a bit as the stylus profile... | |
| Chime in.What's the Best Cassette Recorder ever ? Let's not forget the peak-reading meters that respond to the post-equalized signal, and a great innovation on the open-reel decks . . . the Cross-Field system, whereby the bias was injected by a separate head on the back side of the tape. The Tand... | |
| Last song on most LP's pressed with compression "Compression" is absolutely the correct term . . . it's dynamic range compression and it's common practice to apply this to the inner tracks during mastering. As others have pointed out, this is done because the linear groove velocity has decrease... | |
| digital eq/room correction trade-offs I think you're hearing so much about it right now mainly because there are a TON of new products out in the past few years, and this is a result of some new directions in the OEM (chip-level) DSP products. It used to be that fast DSPs in general w... | |
| Understanding Mcintosh Meters? Are these accurate, in the sense that raising it from -35db to -32db is actually doubling the power?Yep, pretty much.To be perfectly precise . . . it's actually the voltage gain that you're changing. So assuming that the input signal voltage and l... | |
| What is with B&W these days? soundbars, ipod doc.. Since the late 1980s, B&W Loudspeakers has been owned by Equity International, who also owns Classe and Rotel . . . Equity as a company is a very, very different beast from the original Bowers & Wilkins company, with very different market ... | |
| Understanding Mcintosh Meters? Musicnoise is correct in the sense that McIntosh's Power Guard circuit will essentially keep the amp from clipping to any significant degree . . . and amplifier clipping causes the overwhelming majority of (power-related) speaker failures. And I a... |