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| MARTIN LOGAN TRIPLES THEIR PANEL REPLACEMENT Shouldn't you practice what you preach?Second the motion. It's hypocritical to lecture someone to leave politics out of the discussion and then immediately follow with a tit-for-tat. | |
| 5AR4/GZ34 Rectifier Tubes Just idle curiousity, but what's the technical theory behind an AC-to-DC rectifier tube creating a "sweet, tubey" sound? | |
| The McIntosh MCD1000 and 24/192 Assume you really mean the MDA1000. The MCD1000 (now MCD1100) is a CD player. The McIntosh web site says the unit decodes "PCM, 32 to 96 kHz 16 to 24 bits. All data upsampled to 768 kHz."I'd suggest you call the manufacturer and discuss with them.... | |
| 2-Way 3-Way Debate There are lots of explanations as to which is better -- a speaker with 2 drivers, 3 (or more). As with any engineering question, the answer is ultimately determined by what you're after. There is an old example from World War II. The Mitsubishi Ze... | |
| Headless MacMini Are you logging in to the Mac Mini from another PC? If so, the terminal command "shutdown -h now" for halt or "shutdown -r now" for reboot. These are standard Unix commands. | |
| Noise/distortion coming out of speakers Sounds like your volume potentiometer is dirty. There are spray cleaners that will help, but just to be extra safe, I'd ask the manufacturer if it is OK to use that product. (There are some volume pots that are too well sealed so you can't get the... | |
| Driver/Input tubes Good point about the phase inversion. I believe the more common method is to use the 12AX7 for amplification and the 12AT7 for splitting the signal into the push/pull components. I haven't messed with the insides of Jolidas much so not sure if the... | |
| Driver/Input tubes The idea isn't very complicated. Amplification typically needs to be done in stages. If you try to get too much gain out of a single stage, you end up with inadequate output, distortion, non-linearity, noise and other problems. The music sources (... | |
| Tube mixing ...but it seems to be a way to get the advantages of different tubes ALL AT ONCE!That's one of those ideas that sounds great if you say it fast enough. Rather like deciding your next car should have an 8 cylinder engine with 4 cylinders from a Che... | |
| Tube mixing Here's the problem with different tubes on one side of a push-pull amp. I assume you're familiar that a push-pull circuit divides the signal into two halves (usually shown as a top & bottom referenced by a center line), amplifies each separate... | |
| Cloud Storage for Music There are a lot of other cloud backup services besides Apple's. Regardless of the formats they allow a user to store, there is still the same issues of speed and bandwidth caps (and copyright if you choose to worry about that too). | |
| Cloud Storage for Music There are a couple of considerations that make the cloud storage idea less-than-perfect for many home users. First, how many gigabytes of data are you talking? All of that data needs to be transmitted over your internet connection subject to your ... | |
| General comments on SOTA Matching equipment to your personality is an often overlooked aspect when choosing gear wholly or partially based on the opinions of others. Some people have a healthy does of DIY in their genes or are obsessed with the last ounce of performance s... | |
| How does an... No, changing the winding ratio does not increase "power".If you put 100 watts into a transformer, you will only get 100 watts out (actually slightly less due to efficiency loss). But wattage is voltage times current. If I put in 100 volts at 1 amp... | |
| How does an... So by virtue of the 2 windings is how the isolation occurs? They are not connected and electro magnetics is how electricity is induced in the second winding?Yes. I'd just add that most transformers are wound around a steel core that aids the trans... |