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| what to do with my cat on my speaker grills Cats are single minded little beasts. Not really smart, but very clever and willing to take 'risks'. You may want to check at a pet store. They may have a 'repel' odor treatment.My MG-1s were so treated by the original owner and my 2-head of cat N... | |
| The difference between impedance and resistance Arthur has a decent point.I associate many speaker break-in effects to capacitors forming.A 'virgin' cap doesn't know anything about electricity until it is in effect shown.What got me started on this was many years ago buying a high power on-came... | |
| The difference between impedance and resistance Al, Could you please add your take on Power Factor? The Wiki article says that when the phase angle is 90degrees NO power is delivered.My 'pet' idea is that reactive speaker loads are what really defines a 'bad load', not merely low impedance. | |
| Can You Expalin Why Power Cables Do This? That's a good question. Why is break in ALWAYS for the better? Why doesn't it get worse?Or do you only post when something gets better? | |
| New Magnepan 1.7 Owner The tweeters can go inside OR outside.You can even flip 'em backwards, so the mylar is to the back and the magnet assembly is to the front. I have mine that way now, and glad I did.But, don't mess with anything until you have a 'baseline' establis... | |
| Why is high capacitance good? Hi capacitance cables may be used to 'tune' a too bright system. Too bright a system may be fixed in other ways. I think that's a bad approach. I personally try to find low capacitance cables, when such spec's are known. Many cable companies don't... | |
| New Magnepan 1.7 Owner I'd wait until the speakers were run in before making ANY changes. Do your initial setup than wait for maybe 20 or 30 playing hours.readjust. Repeat until 100->200 hours or the urge to readjust passes.Poster above likes 300 hours. Mine were abo... | |
| Dynamics at lower volumes? Agreed with the above poster. At 0-dark 30 (REAL late) when the power is quietest and the neighborhood is quiet, you can hear so far into the music it's like new material.I sometimes rotate my panels to face each other and sit between 'em. Kind of... | |
| Best U.S.A. speakers? How many American Made drivers are there? Besides Magnepan, I mean? | |
| Planar Speaker Placement You mean I've been setting my panels up wrong for about 30 years?I ALWAYS toe them in. More or less. Too much toe and the image collapses while too LITTLE toe and you can get the 'hole in the middle' effectLess toe, crossing well in back of the li... | |
| Fuses amperage question You BET. replace 'em with SAME VALUE or sometimes lower. Not that it matters, but in an effort to protect my panels from my overzealous roomie, I replaced the 1.5 amp fuse with a 1 amp. And Told him to watch the loudness.For USED equipment, I'd be... | |
| Bel Canto Ref 1000 vs. Spectron Musician III Mk 2 IMO, all of the ICE based amps have more similarities than differences.The Spectron, which I've not heard offers the best chance of change....for better or worse TBD.4bsst not enough juice for Maggies? OUCH! at 500x2 into 4ohms, I'd suspect there ... | |
| New Magnepan 3.6r Crossover Three suggestions:1. Call White Bear Lake and ask. 2. Post at Audio Asylum / planar asylum3. Magnepan users Group....MUG for shortMagnepan moves pretty slowly, so don't count on anything but the same design being repackaged. | |
| Are line-out jacks needed to use an ADC? If I understand correctly, the 'passthru' function of my integrated will put out a unity gain signal.This should be maybe? 2v, which would be fine for you ADC.Can't listen at the same time, though....unless you want it real LOUD. | |
| Internet Radio sounds better than ripped CDs. Why Mat,The analogue outs of the AE are only OK.....or worse.A DA converter is a 'must' for this guy. I don't know how inexpensive a good DA can run, but just for example, a CA DacMagic is about 400$ online. Preowned? quite a bit less.Lossless files a... |