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| Basic electrical questions. That's exactly how I work it:Sep/exclusive circuit for Amp and Sub. 20amp, PS Audio Soloist outlet. And since I am not wealthy enough to rewire the entire house with yet more new circuits, the rest of plugged into a good power conditioner off an e... | |
| Homemade sound panels Ngjockey, The pegboard could be damped by either its natural internal friction or by a sheet of something laminated or layered with it. If the holes are 1/4", it will pass frequencies above about 50,000hz, clearly in 'Bat' territory. Either way, i... | |
| Small integrated Aren't all Bel Canto components made on a less-than-rackwidth format?They sound good, too. And won't break the bank. | |
| Should an audio system be left on at all times? Complex systems fail more often then simple stuff....like hammers. Failures can be simple or complex. Also, complex systems are LESS fault tolerant than simple systems. Complex, integrated circuits....Pentium is a fine example....are subject to fa... | |
| one shot: KLH 17 or Large Advents? I had MG-1s in a 10x10 room once....and had to swap them L/R to make a weird 'image' go away. It was a very hard room without even a throw rug. It sounded better with the sliding glass door open, too. | |
| Krell cast MMF versus others Zieman, What is your take on Mogami cable? I use some from my CA CDP to integrated. I simply can't afford/rationalize megabuck experiments with cabling. | |
| Should an audio system be left on at all times? KijankiAll 'lectronics is subject to failure. The metal interconnects used in ICs and discrete devices 'moves' under the pressure of the flow of electricity. The break will usually occur when the line goes over an edge, where the metal is thinnest... | |
| Room Acoustics question: Halcro....we're both right. While phi is derived from the fibonacci series, and the further you go, the better the resolution of the number, so it IS a 'ratio'It is also an irrational number.....like pi, which some simplify to 22/7 for ease of cal... | |
| Room Acoustics question: Zargon, I wish I was near my reference materials rite now! I think it was Strabo or Herodotus who mentioned that the ratio of side to area of base was 1/2......I simply can't remember.Bottom line? Phi was used in calculation:Also, Pi=6/5 phi2. Yes... | |
| amp platform suggestions... IF the object is to have an inert stand, the shelves can and maybe even should be made of layers of material which have different resonant signatures. Granite, lead sheet, sorbothane, hockey pucks, golf balls, tennis balls, Maple blocks, Lexan and... | |
| Room Acoustics question: With all due respects to Euclid et.al. the Golden Section goes back....Way Back. Many Egyptian monuments, including the near 5000yr old Great Pyramid use this ratio as a design element.There IS a mathmatical relationship between phi and pi.Phi is ... | |
| Room Acoustics question: Does the Cardas website discuss the origin of 'there' ratio?Hint: the Cardas logo...a nautilus shell, is the clue. | |
| Coupling caps, upgrade, similar values 2x3.3 in parallel would be closer than a 3.3 as a replacement. 2x10uf in SERIES will be 5uf? It is possible that TOO much capacitance would be worse than not enough....even if the 2x3.3 in parallel is closer. Caps have 'tolerance', too. The measur... | |
| Best Inexpensive Subwoofer HSU works for me. It even plays nicely w/magnepan. I went to HSU HQ and even got a discount w/no shipping! | |
| Vintage integrated Amps. What to look for? I owned the KA=6100 a long time ago. It even drove my (new to me) MG-1s until I could afford a power amp...and Than I turned the Kenwood into just a pre with a snip and a solder.The volume control was amazing...huge, repeatable and great channel b... |