richardbrand
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| Power supply for ethernet switch? @mgrif104 I've read the article and am none the wiser about what it actually claims to be measuring! I found the dog's breakfast of wires in one of the photos illuminating. If it is measuring jitter in the ethernet, be aware that all ethernet d... | |
| A cable too perfect? ... and on the 201-st hour the lord said "let there be light" and there was light and it was coloured ... | |
| speaker upgrade fever I have a private email asking Where did you send your 2905. I have 3 of 4 crackling ? mylar repair?? I live in MInnesota. I cannot reply to private emails on Audiogon, so my answer must be public. I pull the panels out myself, which requires ... | |
| speaker upgrade fever @grislybutter Oh, I had not realised it was your compilation! I assumed it was from a technical publication. You are not the one who called them beercans, neither did you call them bookshelf speakers. I have difficulty linking to responses to ... | |
| speaker upgrade fever @grislybutter I almost accidentally bought a pair of KEF Reference 1 speakers to tide me over while repairing my Quad 2905 electrostatics, which are widely recognised as very accurate speakers. In many respects I prefer the Reference 1 - it pla... | |
| Linn LP12 turntable @yoyoyaya SME and Linn have quite similar origin stories, albeit with a couple of decades separating them. Both had access to high-precision engineering facilities. In SME’s case their founder was looking for a tone arm and asked the workshop if... | |
| Linn LP12 turntable @yoyoyaya I guess the further you are from Glasgow, the less likely you are to return a unit for repair! Linn's early market was the UK and that Stereophile article is itself over 30 years old. Strangely, an inverse law seems to hold for Scotc... | |
| Linn LP12 turntable Linn's founder, Ivor Tiefenbrun, is above all an engineer who believes in measuring what caused changes. He figured that if a turntable could be assembled with a screwdriver, it could be repaired with one. It could also be upgraded. By having eac... | |
| Seeking advice @ghdprentice At 1000 hours break in, might be time for a new cartridge? (I know OP is digital in his summer-house at the moment) | |
| Linn LP12 turntable A centre speaker, which is unused during playback of vinyl, is mentioned in this thread. I am pretty sure it was Ivor Tiefenbrun, the founder of Linn, who insisted during demonstrations that all redundant loudspeakers should be removed from the r... | |
| Surge protectors--how many $ make sense? We had over 1000 lightning strikes in Sydney a couple of evenings ago. Many years ago, a surge protector with a large connected-equipment guarantee sacrificed itself. It took a fair bit of argy bargy but they eventually coughed up. We are still ... | |
| What actually determines volume power? Is it watts? @dman If, as some suggest, you look at changing both your speakers and your integrated amplifier, could I suggest you look at powered speakers where the manufacturer has effectively done the matching for you? The little KEF LS50s are the knockou... | |
| Linn LP12 turntable @signaforce I'd be signing up for the Linn as quickly as possible. Worst case scenario is you can sell it again for about what you paid ... if not more! Get in quickly or somebody else will snap it up ... | |
| Question about high current amps versus "not high current amps" Ohm’s law is one of the simplest laws of physics, yet seems to be so hard to apply properly. What matters is the voltage drop across the load, Multiply this voltage drop by the current flowing, and you have the power (or Wattage) produced at the ... | |
| What actually determines volume power? Is it watts? Here's an opposite story. I have an old Krell stereo amplifier, pure class A, the KSA80. It is rated at a mere 80-Watts per channel into an 8-Ohm load. It is a big beast, I struggle to pick it up, and it has been rated as one of the 10 most inf... |