oldhvymec
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| Unsure how to set levels to use tubes and power amp together By turning the volume to 100% on the Parasound, you are reducing the number of resistors in the path of the signal from the preamp to the amp's input stage. I wasn't thinking about it, but that is a great point. Less crap the better.Might be a ... | |
| Set-up with two subs and an integrated amp What ever you buy you need speaker high level inputs.The REL has a high level input. From your integrated speakers output, to the high level REL inputs via a SpeakOn cable with one end bare. The bare wire goes to you speaker terminals on the amp,... | |
| I have a weird buzz issue; can you help me solve the problem? Again, you took it to a repair man, they hooked it up, and there was NO NOISE. You brought home a whole different system, WITH speakers.The noise was even louder. Shorting plugs, la - te - da. IT WENT AWAY.....It was gone... It was fixed.at the re... | |
| Are integrated amps technically better than separates? Very unlikely you’d reach the same power levels at the equivalent cost in an integrated amp. Power wise, maybe not. Sound Quality I know it can be BETTER. I had an Accuphase.. Integrated can have it all.. That unit bested many a Krell, Mcintosh,... | |
| Are integrated amps technically better than separates? New: the biggest bang for the buck, integrated.Used: I gotta say separates. For some reason, stereo bunnies, leave some really GOOD deals around. Not to say the there’s not deals on integrated, just not as many. I Wonder why? Happy with what they ... | |
| Brand new tubes MB-450 and bias adjustment What are you using to check the bias? Is it a DMM or a stick (analog)A stick meter could be bad or lost calibration.DMM could need batteries. or be set in the wrong position, (usually just the wrong data, scale).1. Turn the unit off, pull the valv... | |
| Shunyata now uses silver ???... I believe it's live and learn, and not be to proud to admit it. That's progress.Second, somebody's got to try the stuff...Why not you?Well not you, you don't seem to happy about new productdesign, and progress, and, and , and. What are you upset a... | |
| Possible Silver IC's to accompany my Skogrand Marrkarian 421 sp cables? I'm just trying to help, ok. But what is the question? What is it hooked to?Are they just laying there, and you want to spend money, to change the look? You know, red to green or cool boxes and bumps in the cables.I'm just wondering, I'm such a n... | |
| Unsure how to set levels to use tubes and power amp together Same here, 100%, I owned an HCA 1000, too. Great amp..Parasound is good stuff...Regards | |
| Just confused geoffkait21,851 posts05-16-2020 7:19amActually, as a designer of iso systems, I can say without fear of contradiction that compression springs actually do not provide any isolation in the horizontal plane, which defines an infinite number of dir... | |
| Does anyone collect something else other than music. Trains, I like trains, pictures of trains, I like HO scale. I like the layout, I was just getting into the sound side. I had to add a shaft from the basement all the way through to the roof. Kinda stepped in the middle my Model RR space in the att... | |
| Missing tube integrated for Klipsch Forte III? tuberist516 posts05-17-2020 12:57pmForte III is not a low end machine. Mapman made a very good suggestion to add subs.tuberist, I'll tell you, their not bad.. really.. They may not, LOL,SLAM, whatever that means, go deep enough? Maybe?But they m... | |
| is it possible to make digital audio sound like vintage vinyl Man from a simple no, to..... read for yourself.. Gosh gotta love Agon..I guess it's one of those, "here's a stick kid, go hit that hornets nest"But more like a butterfly nest... full of fluffy wings and colors... Got to see it, to believe it..Reg... | |
| room size I have a question. In a concert hall, where are best seat in the house?Very close to the maestro, or a GREAT sound man.You see any walls behind them, or close to them... there is a reason.Boundaries are not sounds best friend. There are lots of pr... | |
| Missing tube integrated for Klipsch Forte III? Wow your talking apples, and oranges here. The room is big.. Is there room treatment?50-150 hours on the breakin. The speaker needs to be pretty close on the back side 2-12" MAXThey are not know for, tow in, to much. Kind of a straight forward sp... |