marakanetz
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| Tube microphonics in a preamp No phenomenon here.There maybe bad solder joints or poor contact at tube sockets that needs to be cleaned once-a-while. | |
| Remasters: what and why Shortly saying, you can't make a honey out of dump. If the original master tape was done wright, than you can master and if neccessary, remaster with better quality. | |
| How is current measured? You can examine maximum continuous current by looking at specs of output devices and applied collector(or emmitter for emmitter follower) voltages. Measuring the current with Ammetter won't bring you a sufficient information unless you're using an... | |
| Would Audiogoners be interested in this? ...And all you've been saying: "Hey folks, take a break! Listen to music, share your thoughts if you realy listening to one, enjoy the music, save for a new music, buy some new CDs, DVDs, LPs, cassettes, reels etc...! And the folks would reply: "Y... | |
| Dazed and confused VTL output transformer should be rewired for 8 Ohms.I can send the VTL colour code info of the output transformer. | |
| Power cord length and monoblocks ...only approximately... as long as difference in lengths less than 20m... | |
| cd burning speed Don't know about music, but I had to burn .NET at 2x speed. When I burned on 6x i had .ini file blank. Even after filling it out manually I had encountered further data inconsistancy during an application testing.I think that music isn't less comp... | |
| Totem hawk or Gershman Chameleon? My first impression on Gershman speakers was with their flagship Opera-Sulvage on CES.I stepped onto this room just after Totem room and was quite shure of my undisputable likes towards Totems. This huge speaker system couldn't give any bigger and... | |
| Totem hawk or Gershman Chameleon? Totems and Gershwins are indeed having a totally different approach to build the sound and in vast majority of cases if you like one you won't like the other. Just my $.02 | |
| How do I know when my Lyra Helikon is 'worn out' ? I'd estimate near-10 years with average listening 2...3 hours per day.You will recognize its half-life sonically with distorted highs. In this case you simply increase the pressure by quarter-gramm or higher(by-ear) and continue continue listening... | |
| Sim Audio Moon P-5 too dry Seems I wrongly thought of poweramp instead of preamp.This case is quite simplier:You can get passive preamp and compare with P-5. There are lots of them on the market in sub-$500 range. You'll be completely stoned. | |
| Bi-amp a two-way speaker makes sense? Not exactly what Jsawhitlock sais:If you have a two pair of binding posts on each of your speaker and if you will feed each input of amplifier separately i.e. using y-connector that you will have two separate amps amlifying the same signal and so ... | |
| Sim Audio Moon P-5 too dry The most common brightness problems in solid state gear is handling high impedance loads that usually occur above the highest crossover point. I'd start talking of your speakers, if I didn't hear myself the same problem with Merlyns when I heard s... | |
| Mapleshade Cables They don't make things worse but that doesn't mean you should spend 20 or 50x of normal cable price just for those that don't make things worse.If you dig further on their other tweaks and prices you'll understand how much crap they load to the au... | |
| Corroded tube pins - need help There are not too may ways to check the tube without an expencive tube tester but some sympthoms may tell you that the tube may be bad.First, at a glance, usually the bad one has black residue on the glass bulb. Second is to compare with good one ... |