ngjockey
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| Driving my Kappa 8's Correct.Don't have any suggestions for preamps other than finding one with XLR to, at least, allow you to explore that option. | |
| Driving my Kappa 8's I've owned K8's and wouldn't trust their 2 ohm dip and phase angles to tubes. Sloppy bass. In your budget, look at an old Aragon 8008 (BB being slightly better than ST) or McCormack DNA series.I know that Infinity used an ARC tube amp for referenc... | |
| Balanced vs standard power ... limited TO 0.5mA ... | |
| Balanced vs standard power Sorry, misled again.UL101 and IEC 60335/60990 are more consistent than I was told. IEC is specific about class and such but generally leakage limited from 0.5mA. Difference is that IEC specifies true RMS reading.Still, that's per appliance. | |
| Balanced vs standard power Nothing about the Equitech article implies any kind of panacea. In fact, if it's a ground issue, even separately isolating each amp might not help. Perhaps Jim or Al can comment on the issue of UL/CSA standards and shunting/grounding as compared t... | |
| Balanced vs standard power Interesting question about the harmonics. Personally have doubts about any kind of harmonic filtration below 1 KHz for any passive technology, not including regeneration, but I'm not an expert and ferroresonance has it's mysteries. Don't have an o... | |
| Recommendations on a power regenerator? Two out of Three.http://www.tsipower.com/PDFs/ILc-2000-VRp-Dual-Range-2007-02-15.pdf | |
| Balanced vs standard power Wish it were that simple but there's more to those than just a transformer. As part of the ferroresonant design, they are partially saturated at all times. Along the same lines, in regulating voltage, amperage can suffer. So... with a dynamic load... | |
| Balanced vs standard power Used both balanced and isolation with general purpose step-downs and various others. http://mysite.verizon.net/vze22yzp/id10.htmlFor amps in general, never found much benefit for balanced AC. In fact, my Plinius amps are completely indifferent, ot... | |
| Need to use my 220v preamp in 240v. The preamp is fine at 50 Hz or 60 Hz. A transformer has to be rated for that.Another detail ...http://www.hammondmfg.com/dwg14d.htmAnd if you want to get creative and be the first on the block ...http://www.geocities.ws/jonrisch/catch2.htm | |
| Speakers and system for compressed recordings? Remember playing a Van Halen disc and frantically checking if something was broken. Solution was keeping that disc in the car. | |
| Need to use my 220v preamp in 240v. How DIY do you feel? For sizing, double the current draw of the preamp.http://www.signaltransformer.com/sites/all/pdf/DU-SU.pdfDon't know of any encapsulated transformers for this application. | |
| Ever tried putting a cap inline with RCA for XOVER I think you can still get an NHT X2 for $300 new. Relatively transparent. | |
| Simultaneous XLR & RCA outputs = bad? Canadian Mouse Mutant Repository? | |
| Simultaneous XLR & RCA outputs = bad? Or is that CMRR? |