newbee
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| Placement of components in audio rack I prefer to keep the pre-amp nearer to the turntable and further from the amp. The former's phono pre-amp could be more sensitive to interference from the amp. Could be. So in your stack I'd just switch the pre-amp and CDP. I've never experienced ... | |
| My system's high frequencies hurt my ears FWIW, I think you most often have two choices when setting up bipolar, or a lot of panel speakers. You can emphasize an atmospheric (huge) soundstage or a very detailed or precise type of imaging which might loose a bit of the huge but pick up som... | |
| Hamilton I'll list a few of my favorites, all on Concord Jazz. The first three are upbeat as opposed to laid back romantic late evening sax. I like them most but these seven are all quality Hamilton IMHO.Radio CityRace PointGroovin HighMajor LeagueNo Bass ... | |
| Not ENOUGH GAIN I think the best gain control on an amp is no gain control. It is convienient perhaps when your pre-amp is noisy or has too much gain to give you full use of the VC on your pre-amp, but you don't really need the minor degredation its use can creat... | |
| Not ENOUGH GAIN Clio, I'm sure you are right, but I don't understand the value of such an arrangement unless you are using an attenuator with fixed impedance values so the impedance value seen by the amp is constant. Is that not why most amplifying sections come ... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Since you ask :-)First, that is a really nice looking set of speakers!Second, I suspect that you would greatly improve your sound stage IF you could shift all of the stuff, especially the speakers, 2 to3 feet further into the room and hang some he... | |
| Not ENOUGH GAIN Yep, Onhwy61 and others are right on. I think you might look at in a different manner though. A pre-amplifier's amplifying section comes after the volume control an is always seen by the amp at its full output (gain). The volume control is an atte... | |
| How much can be measured -- and how much cannot? Sabai, More than anything else I was laughing at my self for allowing myself to be drawn into a discussion of magazine reviews/reviewers. I truly am an agnostic when it comes to most anything they publish. I haven't subscribed to any in years. Tha... | |
| Hum from both speakers...This is New Please read. When you solve this one let me know. I have an identical problem with one of my amps. And it is the amp! And it has something to do with the amps grounding scheme. This came up a few years ago when I was trying to use it and I researched it. I bel... | |
| Granite stands for speakers experiment Moving the speakers upward not only changes the interface of the woofer with the floor, ergo the frequency response, it changes how the high frequencies reach your ears and reflections off the walls and ceiling of your room.You didn't mention why ... | |
| Benchmark DAC 1 as preamplifier?? Consider the Grace unit if you haven't already done so. As I recall some of the original reviewers who gave the Benchmarks high marks sort of recanted them when faced with comments of the inconsistency of them after they reviewed very favorable th... | |
| Subwoofer with Thiel 2.4s? These speakers have a -3db FR bottom at 33 hz. That is pretty low. That presents a couple of problems for using a sub. You would have to (I would anyway) drive the Thiels full range so balance wasn't screwed up (let alone signal degradation) by pu... | |
| How much can be measured -- and how much cannot? LOL, while your choices are correct I do not think they are the only ones available. You might choose to think that not only Atkinson's valuation of the results of the component's deficiencies might be wrong, but so could the reviewers conclusions... | |
| Tube Preamps? Licoricepizza2, Re impedance matching I mentioned earlier, 24.3K and a pre-amp with 3500 output impedance might integrate well especially if the 'tightest' bass is not an objective, nor a bit of bass bloom at times is objectionable to you. That is... | |
| Most forgiving high end speaker 10k-20k? Jeffkad, I consider the presence region to be between 1000 and 3000 hz. Broadly increasing or decreasing the presence region, without touching the highs or low mids/bass can make a large difference in prospective without touching the bass or highs... |