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| L-Pads. Speakers Awful Without Them, New Ones Ordered I don't feel put upon. Elliot was actually quite patient with me despite my unwanted advice. Thanks.Ralph and I go way back. He is one of the best guys in the audio business. | |
| L-Pads. Speakers Awful Without Them, New Ones Ordered OK, but I was more responding to Elliot saying that the sound was too tipped up in the treble, when he tried removing the L-pad entirely. Yes, the mechanism is different, but I thought he might ameliorate the problem with his treble control. Anyw... | |
| L-Pads. Speakers Awful Without Them, New Ones Ordered If you have a treble control on your preamplifier, which I might guess you do have on the Mac MX110, then you can achieve much the same effect as with an L-pad. But far be it from me to rain on your parade; I admit to my own set of eccentricities... | |
| L-Pads. Speakers Awful Without Them, New Ones Ordered Oops! I see you reject the notion of using a single resistance. That’s your prerogative. Have fun. But please don’t conclude that using an Lpad is superior to replacing an Lpad with a resistor. | |
| L-Pads. Speakers Awful Without Them, New Ones Ordered Like I said, Elliot. Best to set the L pads where you like the sound. Then measure the resistance across the L pads. Then substitute the L pad with a high quality resistor of the value you determined by measurement across the L pad. The best L... | |
| Any Fatboy Unipivot Users? If you think about it, the phrase “I could care less” actually means that you care and that there is some amount of caring that you feel that could be reduced. Better to say simply, “I don’t care”. But we all do care, or we would not be here to ge... | |
| If you had a dozen pairs of classic vintage ubes in your closet You do realize that all tubes are aging during every minute that you are using them, do you not? So, you can pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for tubes that may sound wonderful on day one. That is a best case scenario, because in many cases in... | |
| What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen. Mijo, you are a man full of convictions. | |
| Classe Six Preamp MC Output not Working +1 for Dover. | |
| If you had a dozen pairs of classic vintage ubes in your closet Most often, these days, the vendor himself did not own the tube from "new", meaning he did not buy it from one of the old time businesses like Radio Shack or Heathkit that once had brick and mortar stores and sold truly new tubes over the counter.... | |
| Classe Six Preamp MC Output not Working I don't know how any of us could hope to give you advice that is as informed as, let alone better than, that of the person who actually did the mod and apparently has your unit in his possession. There are any number of shots in the dark that any... | |
| What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen. I liked that Youtube video for the music, not so much for the dancing. I'm gonna get me some Zappa LPs. | |
| Phono pre amp I often run my MC cartridges wide open (47K) if the phono stage permits. Otherwise choose any load R that is at least 10X the internal resistance of the cartridge. In this case 100ohms or any value greater would suffice. Use your ears. The negativ... | |
| If you had a dozen pairs of classic vintage ubes in your closet Are you talking about tubes as investments or tubes as electronic devices that are needed for music amplification?As one who has been doing this for more than 45 years, I disagree that a tube tester is a requirement. Second, I especially disagree ... | |
| Effects of cables on phono volume Cables should make no difference as far as perceived SPLs. Capacitance or inductance of a cable might affect tonal balance, but the reactance would have to be very extreme even to do that. I think the verdict is unanimous and will remain so. |