lowrider57
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| Installing Dedicated Power Lines -- Need Advice hilde45, my comment about learning how the PS Audio works was not directed at you. Clearly, there is no need to double up with a power conditioner plus regenerator.I use a Core Power Equi=Core 1800 which is a balanced power unit. After reading the... | |
| Installing Dedicated Power Lines -- Need Advice As I stated earlier, power conditioning also protects other components and the source from becoming contaminated.No need to be another condescending jerk. | |
| Installing Dedicated Power Lines -- Need Advice I also have a whole house surge protector. It’s purpose is to protect all electrical devices in the house from spikes, fluctuation in the incoming power, and lightning strikes. It doesn’t clean the dirty power coming into the house from the grid.I... | |
| Installing Dedicated Power Lines -- Need Advice Declare looks like a very good power conditioner. They explain exactly how it works using filtering.PS Audio is a power regenerator. I think you should go to their website or a review to understand how it works.I use balanced power. The unit separ... | |
| Installing Dedicated Power Lines -- Need Advice If one goes the regenerator route, do they also need a conditioner? No, you don't need both. A regenerator takes imperfect AC from the mains and generates the signal into a new clean sine-wave without noise and distortion. It's creating a new AC s... | |
| Is EquiCore Deep Core a Great Benefit When Used With Core Power 1800? @artemus_5 Your system is beautiful, it deserves the DeepCore. Tell the wife you got it on sale. | |
| Is EquiCore Deep Core a Great Benefit When Used With Core Power 1800? The EC 1800 alone significantly improved the SQ of my system and adding the DeepCore resulted in improvements in specific areas. Low-end seems to have more extension, I think it's really that there's better quality bass, it's fuller and more defin... | |
| Equalization for vinyl nirvana Good idea to check the loading/setup of the phonostage for your cart.What TT, cart, and phonostage are you using?Records don't sound as bad as you're describing.Before you start spending money on bandaids, use a test record to check the sound of y... | |
| Have I got the wrong amp? or the wrong speakers? Can you listen with headphones? That will reveal if the amp is the culprit. | |
| Speaker styles / sound Two good answers, two ridiculous answers. | |
| Have I got the wrong amp? or the wrong speakers? According to the specs, speakers and amp should be a good match.Akai:50wpc into 8ohms.Speaker load impedance: 4Ω to 16ΩSpeakers:Recommended amplifier power: 25-120 wattsSensitivity: 88 dBNominal impedance: 8 ohms compatibleHas the amp been inspect... | |
| Possible cause of harsh mids? @noromance Yes, sibilance on records is atypical. I bought some classical records from a private seller online, all had distortion. It sounded like he played them on an old Victrola. | |
| Possible cause of harsh mids? Does this Corea album exhibit the effect every time when played. How do other albums sound, any harshness?There’s no mistaking sibilance, It’s a narrow frequency range in the upper mids or highs, the sssss sound. It's sounds different than distort... | |
| Burned Out Andy Bowman is serious about selling quality tubes and customer satisfaction. Every tube I've bought from Andy has been cream of the crop. http://vintagetubeservices.com/laboratory/The downside is the wait time for an order is now a few weeks. | |
| 2 Ohm Tekton Pendragons +1 @mapman and +1 again.I hope atmasphere sees this thread. Ralph often says 8ohm nominal is good and 16ohm is even better for his amps.Eric makes fine speakers from all the comments and reviews I've read. But why 2ohms? 98dB... Let's wait and se... |