markphd
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| Brain Teaser: Biamp or biwire w/limited rack space I have gone through bi-wiring, passive bi-amping and active-biamping with my equipment, which was designed to be upgraded in this way. Based on my experience, and on what you said, here are my somewhat rambling thoughts.You state that you want mor... | |
| Voltage fluctuations I don't think that a constant 110v would be too problematic. The more serious concern is the fluctuation. You don't need to have a catastrophic lighting strike. Even little surges of power are very damaging to electronics over time. You may want t... | |
| A question about the logic of interconnect cables I am not technically trained so I can't give an authoritative, scientific answer. However, I too am curious as to the answer. Here are some speculative, albeit uninformed, thoughts.1. Some high end manufacturers do not believe you need any "specia... | |
| How do you clean tube pins? Gold is a good conductor and it doesn't oxidize. That's why it's used. And because it can be spread very thin, in the order of a few angstroms, it's not too expensive.However, even though it doesn't oxidize, it can get grungy with air borne pollut... | |
| Street Talk / July '08.... Your comment about the Beatles and lyrics caught my attention. For many, many years I paid almost no attention to lyrics. I often wonder if the Beatles had something to do with it. I was a child when the British invasion hit. Beatles everywhere. E... | |
| How do you clean tube pins? Boy, you guys sure are meticulous. I thought you could just put tubes in the dishwasher with the other glassware. | |
| How LONG have you been an AUDIOGONER'? I've been here since the site started. Once the flamers took over the site I dropped out for a couple of years though. It was unmoderated at that time. When the site was revamped and the discussion forums started to be moderated, I re-registered, ... | |
| Biwire posts; how to connect? On the other hand, if you have bi-wireable speakers, but you just want to single wire, then you do what the other posters said. Keep the jumpers in place and connect the single speaker cable to the HF posts.As I re-read your post, I'm not quite su... | |
| Biwire posts; how to connect? You're not bi-wiring if the jumpers are connected. You need two two-conductor cables per speaker. The first two-conductor cable goes to the HF posts of speaker number one. The second two-conductor cable goes to the LF posts of speaker number one. ... | |
| They lost my amp I once bought a pair of speakers. They shipped in separate boxes but UPS delivered only one. I asked the delivery guy where the other one was. So the guy says: "Oh yeah, we were wondering about that other box that was the same size. We weren't sur... | |
| Polk Audio Speakers I also have noticed a number of audiophile speaker brands unexpectedly appearing in mass market outlets, although Polk has been doing this for many years. Generally, the lines in the mass market stores do not seem to be the same as the audiophile ... | |
| REVIEW: Oppo DV980H Hey... I liked New Coke. | |
| Bi-wire cable for non-biwire speaker? Sure. A biwire cable is typically just two single cables in the same jacket for convenience. So just use one of the black/red pairs of the cable.Maybe I'm paranoid, but I would also put some electrical tape around the ends of the cable pair not be... | |
| Best and Worst Rock Concert Moments About twenty years at a Tull concert, early on in the concert, somebody threw a shoe on the stage as the band was playing. Ian Anderson picked it up without missing a note in his song and held it up. He was shaking it at the crowd like an irate ol... | |
| Multiple Outlet Units You can always make your own. Just put some quality duplex outlets, like Hubbels, into a double, triple or quad ganged electrical box. |