minorl
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| Tube vs SS vs Digital Anything can happen. Output driver tubes can "blow" and place full voltage at the speaker terminals. Same as output drivers on transistor amps blowing and taking out speakers. There are protection circuitry in good equipment that mitigate this so,... | |
| dedicated power line for audio equipment Look at your system. If you have only two channel audio system , then one dedicated line for each amp and another dedicated line for the low level equipment (which should be all plugged into a conditioner/multiple power outlet device). So, for exa... | |
| Best Active Crossovers? You have to be careful purchasing active crossovers for speakers. Some (not all) speakers need some sort of wave shaping circuitry to correct for issues inherent to the specific speakers. Martin Logans for example. So, when thinking about purchasi... | |
| Any good Audio Stores in San Diego Also, I have delt many times with Dan Musquiz when he was with Stereo Design. He is excellent and I highly recommend him. | |
| Locating capacitors Digi-key parts, GTC electronics, Newark Electronics | |
| Any good Audio Stores in San Diego Stereo Design in San Diego. My favorite dealer. Look them up on the internet. I go there when visiting my Friend living in San Diego as often as I can. I have been auditioning equipment or purchasing outright from them for decades. The staff is ve... | |
| What Do You Hear When Your Amp Needs Biasing? What does the manufacturer recommend as to when you are suppose to recheck bias on the amp? That is the criteria I would use.enjoy | |
| Is It Safe To Connect Speakers To Two Amps?? I'll do some looking. I was pretty sure Niles audio had one, but I'll check.enjoy | |
| Is It Safe To Connect Speakers To Two Amps?? Obtain a 2 channel/2 amp speaker switch. That way there is no way both amps are paralled at any time. You can then switch between then amps (both amps being off when you operate the switch). I know there are several companies that offer such a swi... | |
| HasCD sound exceeded expectations since 1983? Well, if the future will be high resolution downloads, that means that they will all be digital. Which means that all original analog recordings will have to be re-mastered into digital. Wow! I hope they re-master them correctly. What bugs me is w... | |
| Stand alone dac vs built in dac what's the better Jitter is reduced or eliminated with a proper clock mechanism. In my opinion, most DACs suffer from something that most of you are aware of for pre-amps but don't apply to DACs and that is the power supply. most internal DACS have a mediocre power... | |
| Audio Research SP-11 MK2 ... Wow! that was really interesting. Before I purchased my REF 3, I retubed my SP-11 MKII with AR supplied tubes and I have to tell you I with several of my friends over about a week compared my borrowed REF 3 (dealer demo) with the retubed SP11 MKII... | |
| Why do I like Class AB better than Class A? also, thanks for the clarification. I didn't know this amp had a switch that altered the internal circuit bias. However, to be clear, all it did was change the bias point from a lower to higher output driver bias. Which is a good circuit design id... | |
| Why do I like Class AB better than Class A? Got it. Still once you turn a transistor on, it is on. It can be turned on at a really low bias point, but, it is still on. Then you can really turn it on at a much higher bias point where you are cooking at full rated output without an input sign... | |
| Why do I like Class AB better than Class A? marketing. I would bet you a lunch that the Plinius is biased class A up to a particular bias point and even within class A/B and when you flick the switch the bias is reset to a higher bias point.enjoy |