millercarbon
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| Help! Cure for transformer hum? You had no hum before simply for the same reason most don't notice, a combination of low level and solid construction. Lots of times there's background noise that can be there sometimes for a very long time, until something happens you notice and ... | |
| So how can a great system solve less than great recordings You're over-generalizing. At this level of analysis anyone can say Edison made lousy recordings on his wire thingy, the gramophone sucks, how can even the best system get fidelity from tin cans and string? Fraid you're gonna have to up your game a... | |
| Owners opinion on Jadis jd1 ,transporter how reliable is it when used on repeat Why? Is there something special about Jadis? Do they not use the same parts as others? Standardization, anyone? Vast majority of all parts manufactured today, and for the last umpteen years, are made to a standard of something like a million cycle... | |
| Help! Cure for transformer hum? The sort of mechanical vibration hum you have is caused by DC offset. Our homes are run off 240V but instead of running everything at 240V like they do in a lot of countries someone here decided that was way too dangerous for us fraidy cat America... | |
| Violin Moves All Over the Sound Stage Does anyone know which version of this performance is the best engineered recording? Depends. The original recording is by definition the best engineered. All anyone can do from that point on is monkey around with that master tape. A really good ... | |
| What’s the relationship between gain (dB) and power (watts)? They're not paying me enough. You could mention that..... | |
| Raven Blackhawk LE... am I going to be disappointed? Pair that Raven up with Moab, you will not believe. Not even. Seriously. Your amp is way better than mine, and if you heard mine you would freak. When I say way better, talking with Dave Thompson it turns out he had my same amp. He said nice littl... | |
| Quality home theatre receiver with quality sound? There is nothing worse than an AVR. So if she doesn't care about surround why would you get her an AVR? Get her a stereo receiver. Spend a couple hundred, because it won't matter if you spend a grand nobody will ever know the diff. Get one that lo... | |
| What’s the relationship between gain (dB) and power (watts)? Power. Seriously. Helps to think things through. What is power? Current? Voltage? Here I'll give you a hint: Watt is power? That's not a typo. | |
| Boy, Oh Boy! Towshend! OMG Rick and F1 cars are only 200 mph, the speed of sound is 761 mph, krikey! you're right they should totally be tethered! | |
| Deja Vu all over again I love streaming. The younger generation I think takes it for granted. Just wait, you too will get old and some day find it sometimes not so easy to get started. Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till its gone? Pave pa... | |
| Arrangement of components on rack I brought some of this up on the Facebook Tekton Owners Group. One guy, he took three pieces of scrap wood each about 3x5x1/4" and put them together in a triangle, like the way you would build a house of cards. He put a rubber band around the two ... | |
| What’s the relationship between gain (dB) and power (watts)? This is where my technical ignorance seems significant. Maybe I’d need a textbook to understand this:Of course, gain only works so long as you don't exceed the output limits, whose absolute limit in a linear amp is by the power supply rails. ... | |
| An Objective Review of the Tekton Double Impact Speakers I can accept that but if you can show me proof of that I'd retract position and apologize to everyone here for my ignorance. Not so much ignorance, more likely it is nothing more than a common lack of logic. And knowledge of the subject. Y... | |
| Violin Moves All Over the Sound Stage Okay so the real question, when things move around like this how to tell if it is the recording or your system setup? We get our sense of imaging from arrival times and also relative volume. When speakers are too close to reflective surfaces the r... |