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| Is Monster cable getting better? Monster is a company of shall I say? a Questionable ethic. I wouldn't buy any monster product. First, I'm not convinced and second I can do just as well or better without supporting Noel Lee. Without spending a penny more.After there Heavy-Handed ... | |
| current versus watts My panels have a 4 amp fuse on the mid/tweet. I simply can't see them making use of much more than about 7 or 8 amps continuous...though i may be wrong.As for my ICE amps 45amp rating?Question:Can anyone point me at a fuse time/current chart which... | |
| Why are my mosfet fuses blowing? I like Herman's call. Try other speakers.I'll bet it still gets warm.Re bias makes sense as do output devices breaking down under heat / stress.The temp of the output devices is much hotter than the heatsink and all it would take would be some bad... | |
| Dynamic Headroom Real bench measurements will find these out pretty quickly. It can work against a manufacturer, too, if they rate an amp at 40x2 rms and it will put out say.....80x2 rms. As has been noted, this will also artificially inflate the dynamic range spe... | |
| Need to buy used integrated about 800 dollars OH! One other thing::You could get something like the Onkyo A-9555 'd' integrated NEW and still come in under budget. Good reviews, reasonable build and I think it even has a phono input, not that it sounds like that's an issue. It should run cool... | |
| Need to buy used integrated about 800 dollars The AdCom Triple 5 series is what.....mid/late '80s vintage?While you can argue about sound good/bad/harsh or whatever, fact is, it is getting a little long in the tooth and would have to be priced very attractively to get around the fact it can't... | |
| Best Amp to drive my Apogee Stages? The ICE modules are NOT continuous rated. The very high limits quoted, like the 250 / 550 watt ASP500 are time limited numbers. There FTC power is much lower. The output Zobel will fry. The ASP500 time limit is 60seconds while the ASP1000 is 30sec... | |
| airport express questions Now, can someone tell me why, when running my airport express to a CA 840c using optical, that I periodically have an awful, glassy, fingernail-on-chalkboard sound? Files are either alac or mp3 and with or without error correction when put on the ... | |
| Quick poll: Listening at night, lights ON or OFF ? in the dark.And, I shut off all the lights my equipment will let me turn off. A couple pilot lights aren't that annoying, but sometimes the displays can be a little over the top. | |
| Dynamic Headroom Correct me if I'm wrong. In my case dynamic / headroom and such doesn't matter.If I use 30x2RMS, my ICE are 500x2@4, why would I care if they had 3db or 0.1db headroom? 30x2 is pretty loud. | |
| Aluminum wiring My version of 'the problem with aluminum wiring' is that it was being used with connectors designed for Copper. Than, some of the above referenced problems start to happen. If aluminum was used with connectors and outlets designed for it I still d... | |
| Driving a Thiel It's not the impedance OR sensitivity alone.Many Thiel speakers have some awful phase angle problems, sometimes where the impedance dips. Good amplification, maybe even an ICE based solution? | |
| What is the best RCA interconnect? is everthing, and I mean EVERTHING else in your system and room up to snuff?If not, cable is the rabbit hole to end all rabbit holes. The only bigger hole into which to pour money is BOATS. And you know what they say about boats!I use all Belden /... | |
| Full Range Drivers You may want to consider this article::http://www.passdiy.com/pdf/cs-amps-speakers.pdfThese speakers work BEST with current source amps for which Pass provides a workaround. | |
| Audio Rack Construction If you are going to fill the space between the tube and allthread, I'd use an expanding foam.Lead is toxic and a nightmare to work with. The expanding foam has the advantage, from a physics standpoint, of coupling the rod to the tube which increas... |