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| Nakamichi cassette playback in non-Nak deck? The width of the magnetic gap on a record head has NOTHING to do with the performance of a subsequent playback head. The only compatibility concerns are those of track width, which in a cassette will cause severe crosstalk way before it affects pe... | |
| Help with early SME 3009 counter weight I've set up some pretty old 3009s, and every one had adjustable counterweights . . . I agree with Corby in that something must be modified or missing.Try going to www.vinylengine.com and downloading a 3009 manual; from there you should be able to ... | |
| Turntable speed measurements for speed accuracy? You must not have heard . . . it has been conclusively proven through many exhaustive hours of turntable-watching . . . oops, I mean turntable-listening tests, that there is absolutely NO correlation between the speed at which the platter turns an... | |
| How am I frying all my amps? Oscillating? Help Actually, it sounds like you've made some real progress . . . the volume-control-related noise and the high-pitched squeal are gone. Would it only be that in diagnosis of an electrical system, solving one part of the problem always solved all of i... | |
| Great systems in butt-ugly rooms There are many home built these days with "open" floorplans - which sometimes translates into one huge room in the back of the house, two stories high, with the kitchen, dining, and 'family-room' area all in one. Add that to a design style that in... | |
| How am I frying all my amps? Oscillating? Help Your plan sounds good to me. | |
| How am I frying all my amps? Oscillating? Help 0.2V into 8 ohms is 0.005 watts, FWIWAnd this is a TON of juice, for noise voltage. Similar to the amount of average audio power required to play speech at normal conversation levels, with an average bookshelf speaker. The AC reading was even high... | |
| Small RCA ended Ic search The entry-level Transparent interconnects (The Link & MusicLink) have small connectors that are still high quality and grip the connectors well. They sound good too. | |
| How am I frying all my amps? Oscillating? Help My vote is that there's a problem with your preamp, and it's putting out some kind of inaudible energy that's giving your amplifier(s) fits. It could be DC, or ultrasonic AC (oscillation). There are all sorts of things inside it that could fail an... | |
| How am I frying all my amps? Oscillating? Help There is one thing I can tell you for sure . . . when problems defy repeated attempts at diagnosis, there is a fundamental assumption being made that is untrue. In this case, it's definately possible that there is/was more than one completely unre... | |
| XLR cables are picking up radio/TV hash... This is a classic symptom of interference from an AM radio transmitter. For FM and television (which uses FM for the sound), RF interference won't actually de-modulate the audio from the station.The most likely cause of what you describe would be ... | |
| Old tube amp? I am also a big fan of the Dyna ST70, but I prefer it stock. It definately has its flaws, and many of the popular mods improve some of these flaws quite a bit. But none of them really transform it into a super-amplifier, and the original design is... | |
| How do autotransformers affect sound? Wow, really interesting thread.Atmasphere, I get the impression that what you're describing is simply the tendency of certiain topologies to present non-linear loads to their preceeding stages. If this is the case, then how is this substantially d... | |
| How do autotransformers affect sound? Arthur, just a couple of minor clarifications . . . bifilar winding refers to the process of placing multiple transformer windings side-by-side as they are wound around the bobbin. Since an autoformer has only one winding, it technically can't be ... | |
| How do autotransformers affect sound? Eldartford, the impedance relationship between the output stage and the autoformer on McIntosh solid-state amps has changed somewhat over the decades . . . and it directly parallels the changes in what good power semiconductors have been available... |