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Need advice: Biamping vs. dual bridged monos
You can still use the passive crossover that came with your speakers to biamp. You will need an extra set of interconnect cables and speaker cables to go from the amps to the crossover and from the crossover to the speakers. The speaker's owner's ... 
Need advice: Biamping vs. dual bridged monos
are your speakers set up whereby you can biamp them easily? In other words, does the input connectors have two separate connectors for high and low that are jumpered? If yes, then disconnect the connectors and simply connect the amps accordingly. ... 
Best Record You Have Ever heard
Keith Jarrett Koln concert 4 album set.Wow! 
Why does Cary Audio keep discontinuing good amps?
I agree with the first responder. When companies continually to discontinue products, that means that they want their products continually reviewed by magazines and they want it to seem as if they are coming up with something new and better. Serio... 
Rawson Amps
There are people out there that download music illegally and think nothing of it. Just as in this case there are people that will reverse engineer products of simply take someone else's diy designs and market them for themselves against the expres... 
What happens to an amp below 2 ohms?
Depends on the amp and how it was designed. When designing amplifiers, one design criteria is the load that it must be able to drive in a stable manner. This is one of many extensive equations that help determine the values of components in the ci... 
Why Are You Waiting???
Elizabeth; Do you run your power amps through the power conditioners? Is all that plugged into the same outlet?ThanksMinorl 
Buying used or sight unseen speakers a bad idea?
Do your homework!! Luck is not an option. Research the speaker you are interested in. find out the repair recommendations. For example, (just an example folks). Martin Logan Speakers are excellent speakers. However, how old are the panels? Do they... 
What's your favorite lyric from a song?
Marilyn Scott's verion of Here's to Life where the lyric says "may all your storms be weathered and all that's good get better" Wonderful blessing.Absolutely the best version of this song I've heard. Other songs on the cd are okay, but she knocked... 
Your ONE all time favorite love song?
A song for you, written by Leon Russel and recorded/sung by the Temptations. Absolutely wonderful song. 
Class A amplifiers - which are considered the best
Mark Levinson 20.6 amps. Absolutely one of the best ever made and will blow away most of the amps made today. When going away from Mark Levinson the person, I guess the new company had to move forward with different (non Mark Levinson designs). Bu... 
MSB M202 compared to Pass XA.5
It is fun and natural to go and listen to other systems. However, if you don't hear anything missing from your system and you are happy. Then enjoy. A good system and sound is one that I find I don't want to get up from. If hours later you are sti... 
Details for bi-amping
Either way, passive or active, you have to decide if you want seams or holes in your system response or whether you want it "tunable" with an active crossover. As mentioned previously, if you can remove the passive built-in crossover easily from y... 
Details for bi-amping
If you are planning on passive crossovers, then unless the amps are identical, you will have gaps or mismatch is high/low output of the amp/speaker setup. Some speakers (Martin Logan's for instance) have switches that allow you to adjust the input... 
What will raising the Va of atransformers provide?
Atmasphere is correct. I was describing transformers whereby you want the same rail voltages and are just swapping transformers with one with higher VA ratings, but the voltage in/out (turns ratio) is the same. If you change the turns ratio from t...