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| How do you tell how dirty your power is? One of the worst culprits, and very easy to assess, is fluctuating line voltage. It's a serious problem if you use a tube amp with manual bias. Just stick the probes of a simple volt/ohm meter into your wall outlet at different times of the day an... | |
| Leaving DAC on all the time OK? Imin2u -- I know we're not talking about power tubes (in DAC's) but I thought generally tubes were like cars -- "It's not the years, it's the mileage" So that every hour powered up is an hour of useful life gone. Not so you say?. | |
| Acoustic doors? Albert: the language "Adding loosely packed fiberglass insulation in the wall cavities of interior walls further reduces the energy passing through, in effect making the air between the walls more lossy." is utterly wrong, and contributes to that ... | |
| Acoustic doors? If Albert constructs his "air spaces" with concrete or lead, great! But the only thing that affects (reduces) sound transmission from one space to another is MASS and STIFFNESS, but primarily MASS, not xtra air spaces. I just love the myth that st... | |
| Leaving DAC on all the time OK? As long as we're not including tube DAC's I agree w/ the previous statments. With transports, it's fine to leave them on too. Just remember to take the CD out of the player to insure that the laser and/or any clamping mechanism are not left in a p... | |
| Transfiguration Temper W vs. V-sound differences ? Thomas, did you actually A-B them in your system, all else being equal? I have the W, and never made a head-to-head comparison, so I was just curious.There's really no physical difference between the two except the 1:2 ratio of the coil windings.T... | |
| Two sources, one sub - can I use Y-cable You could probably do that as long as you can remember to only have one pre at a time turned on. A better solution, would be to use a sub equipped with both kinds of inputs: one set for L/R 2 channel line inputs (from your MF) and another LFE (low... | |
| Is my amp "High Current"? Bob, so far, no one has explained just what it is that's "reversed" about my description(s). I am just using Ohm's Law as it exists for all circuit design. And although I'm still confused as to the point you're making, my point is simply that if y... | |
| Is my amp "High Current"? Inpep, you still appear to misunderstand the the terms voltage, power and current, and more important, how they relate to each other. If you will spend some time with this site:http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_1/index.htmluntil these relationsh... | |
| Is my amp "High Current"? Inpep, it's OK to think of it this way I suppose:it is the speaker that 'decides' what it needs to produce sound, not the amplifier.so long as it's understood that what is meant by "decides" is whether the speaker presents an electromagnetic load ... | |
| Is my amp "High Current"? Inpep, voltage is defined as the POTENTIAL to do WORK by MOVING electrons from one point to another. In an electrostatic speaker, electrons do not move across the gap between the membrane and the stator(s) unless of course the two happen to touch,... | |
| Is my amp "High Current"? Adman227, your quote (from Montytx) is why I said I thought there was some confusion over power vs. current. Again, I recommend this site:http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_1/index.html. | |
| Is my amp "High Current"? Inpep, you state:Electrostatics do not demand high current, but are voltage driven. Is that your opinion, or do you have a reference for that 'fact'?Electroststics are essentially voltage driven devices, i.e. the membrane responds to the varying v... | |
| Is my amp "High Current"? Jeffreybehr, please explain what's reversed. I'll fix it if it's wrong. | |
| Is my amp "High Current"? I think y'all are confusing power with current.1. Watts are a product of volts times current2. So 200 watts could equal (A) 1V x 200A or (B) 200V x 1A3. When impedance (ohms) drops, and the speaker wants lots of watts, you could give it A or B, bu... |