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| Do we believe in Machina Dynamics? Second Punkuk to be judge. | |
| efficiency- hope i spelt that wright. Magnus, a speaker should always be viewed in relation to what amplifier it would be used with. If you have a low output (low wattage) amplifier, especially the vacuum tubed variety, you would want to use a fairly efficient speaker with high(ish) i... | |
| Re-arranged Room Sounds Awful...How to Improve? Acoustics is the biggest PITA out there and I am sure I speak for many folks on the forum, more steps are taken back wards than forwards when treating a room. I have spent many thousand on room treatments and still regularly go back and forth on t... | |
| A question for technically astute Mihalis, would you expand on "it is a commonly known fact between amp designers that 220-240V regions perform better with most of their designs"thanksPaul | |
| A question for technically astute Hi Larry. Sorry - misread your post.The transformer is filtering out noise in the power lines. The short of that is that it translates to a B+ voltage in your amp with less noise and ripple. That would not (to my knowledge) give you more dynamics ... | |
| A question for technically astute Hi Larry. Yes, it could be your step up transformer. When using a transformer, you need to over spec the transformer otherwise it will effect the sound in ways you mention. While this may be totally overkill, I wouldn't consider using one unless i... | |
| Componets first, cables second? Shardorne, apologies for the attutude in my previous posts. You are right, that solves nothing and shouldn't appear on this board. My apologies.One cannot regenerate musical content that is lost by raising the treble a few db. Once lost, content c... | |
| Componets first, cables second? +++ it appears that for analog audio applications (at audio frequencies), wire capacitance and inductance are generally regarded as being so small as to be unimportant and can be ignored. +++Wow, so rolling off high frequencies and bass AND induci... | |
| Componets first, cables second? Metro04, +++ I honestly don't know how Shadorne's that's nothing to scoff at by anyone's standards, and far from being "consumer"! +++Shadorne has put his money down and I am sure he enjoys his system a lot (and kudos to him for that), but using... | |
| Componets first, cables second? +++ Most electronics is designed to be insensitive to these small variations in typical wire parameters +++True. And most folks buy those electronics from Best Buy and K Mart i.e. most (audio) electronics are so bad that I wouldnt want to actuall... | |
| Can you swap Brand A for Brand B? Hi Jeff seems I have pasted the URL for the same article twice. Here is a shootout on some electrolytic caps. http://diyparadise.com/cap/dare_to_compare.html.If you go to partconnexion.com youll find some very good white papers on black gates. ... | |
| Componets first, cables second? Shadorne +++ The absence of a well-accepted, plain, practical engineering-type explanation of the how and why a more expensive piece of wire should work much better in audio than an appropriate (but ordinary) piece of wire raises too many question... | |
| Can you swap Brand A for Brand B? Jeff, I do not know of any books that pertain specifically to tweaking/modding amps. However there is a lot of information on the net. Arthur Salvatore has a nice intro into modding tube equipment, which you may find helpful when starting out. I f... | |
| Can you swap Brand A for Brand B? Hi Jeff - sure you can. It is quite common for folks to swap out components for higher quality units to improve sound; not only on kits but on manufactured gear also. Some of the things you could look into is swapping coupling capacitors for bette... | |
| Koetsu cartridges - what arms work? I used a Koetsu on a Morch UP4 (blue dot armwand) for a while. Worked very well.I used the combo on three different turntables (HW19, Progressive, Oracle Delphi) and it seemed equally at home on all three.RegardsPaul |