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| Dedicated AC Power Line vs. Power Conditioner? The key factor is do you have the power line wire drop from a transformer only to your house, or is it shared with any neighbor, regardless of the distance between houses.You don't need a metal outlet box with BX, but to continue the shielding eff... | |
| What speaker cables to buy for my Krell s300i amp? The general theory is the heavier the gauge the better. It's simple Ohm's law in effect in this case. The less resistance from the cable, the more power goes to the speakers.There is no magic between the $1,000/ft. cable vs. the $3/ft. cable. Ther... | |
| Dedicated AC Power Line vs. Power Conditioner? Md8232: Your electrician won't have any options. It's the local code that dictates what you can use inside the walls. I personally like BX (http://www.seatekco.com/bx.htm) because it has a flexible steel shielding around it and if your local code ... | |
| When was the last time you listened to live music? I agree with most all of your analysis'. Then we can safely ask: "What is live music and what do we use as a standard of comparison for our home system?"It seems that there is no basis of comparison. It's what you think it should sound like, not w... | |
| Best speaker on used market around 10,000.00 In my humble opinion, there's no way anyone can answer that question.Since the speakers are last in the chain from source to your ears, every component in this chain affect the outcome of the perceived sound from the speakers.I heard Wilson's WAMM... | |
| Speaker sharing between Home Theater & Tube amp I have the Dynaco PAS-3x for the vinyl preamp going direct to the ST-70's.Running the HT through the Dynaco is a good idea. The Yamaha does have a pre-out I can feed into the pre-amp. I have to give it a shot.The only concern I have is that I want... | |
| Speaker sharing between Home Theater & Tube amp I have two Dynaco ST-70's (L & R), each has the 8 ohm outputs and the two inputs in parallel to give me an almost 60 watts/channel output and a Yamaha RX-A3010 home theater receiver driving a pair of Martin Logan Quest hybrid electrostatic spe... | |
| Need at least 900wpc in 4ohm Why do we need a car with 350 horsepower? Why do we need a 5 bedroom 3 bath 2 story house for a family of 3?Because the "bigger must be better" theory of life!Most people have no clue that an average living room needs only about 2-3 watts of actua... | |
| McIntosh C2300 Power Cord Recommendation As I mentioned before, all tube and some solid state amps have a power transformer which literally isolates the power line from the rest of the electronics.Unless somehow this new fangled power cord overcomes the laws of physics, there's no way it... | |
| McIntosh C2300 Power Cord Recommendation If you recall Monster Cable made millions $ on the perceived notion that heavier and thicker "custom" interconnects and speaker cables improve the sound of your system.The only difference is that the shielded interconnects present a different reac... | |
| McIntosh C2300 Power Cord Recommendation Gentlemen: One fact I neglected to mention is that 99% of all tube gear has a power transformer which the power cord is attached to. This transformer totally isolates the A/C line from the rest of the audio link inside the amp. Inside the amp, you... | |
| Rabco SL-8E Vs Top Quality Pivoted Tonearms If anyone is interested, here is a link to a detailed history of linear tracking arm designs and manufaturers, including the Rabco:http://www.soundfountain.com/amb/ttrabco.html..... | |
| Do you leave your platter spinning while switching I never turn off the TT when changing LP's.I also never shut off my belt driven turntable. It runs 24/7 and my theory is that it won't develop a spot on the belt if left in the off position for a day or two.When I used to shut off the TT, I had a ... | |
| Rabco SL-8E Vs Top Quality Pivoted Tonearms I owned one in the early seventies running on a Techniques SP10 turntable. It was a fun toy, but the mechanism made so much noise that even at 15ft. from the arm, I could her the chain drive motor when it was activated to move the arm and the bead... | |
| McIntosh C2300 Power Cord Recommendation Most all homes have a 12AWG (American Wire Gauge) Romex wires inside the walls with a 15Amp circuit breaker (some have 20Amp). There's roughly a 50ft. run between the 15A circuit breaker and the wall plug of this 12 gauge wire. To test the misguid... |