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| Review: Stanton 500E MkII Cartridge Your reviews are always interesting and informative. You do a very nice job of including pertinent info, making comparisons and the fact that you include a picture is icing on the cake. Keep up the good work. As far as the Stanton goes, if it is a... | |
| What is the difference in CD transports? Logic would dictate that using a common reference clock for the transport and DAC would improve performance. Has anybody ever thought about finding a quality transport & DAC and using one lab grade ( like HP, etc... ) external clock for both o... | |
| Favorite SS Amp? I would have to agree with Driver. That is, Pass and Ayre products have a lot of potential when mated with other appropriate gear. Having said that, one has to wonder why he's selling the Ayre? Sean> | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers Duke: Traditional vent systems typically tune the vent at the same appr frequency that the woofer resonates at. This produces two smaller "humps" rather than one larger hump. Bandwidth is increased and overall bass sensitivity also climbs over a w... | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers Good points Joe. Once again, you've added a brief but very cogent analysis of the how's and why's. In the future, i'll run my mouth / stir things up and you do the final presentation, okay ?? : ) Honestly though, the fact that you typically remain... | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers Duke: How many "exceptions to the rule" that you describe above do you know of that are being marketed? Aside from the aspect of roll-off rates, changing the box alignment still doesn't deal with the lack of transient response / out of band port l... | |
| Speakers for extremely close listening Payip: Many recording studios and mastering facilities have taken to using "audiophile grade" speakers and left the "commercial grade monitors" behind. The repurcussions that such a move has on the finished product has the makings of an entirely d... | |
| I made a pair of Voigt pipes and Side mounting a woofer should be done ONLY if the crossover point is quite low and the crossover slope is relatively steep. If such an approach is taken, bass distortion becomes less apparent and the benefits of a narrower baffle can be taken adva... | |
| Negative feedback, voltage and output impedance Greg: I should have clarified that my "NO" feedback was in regards to "global" feedback. The use of small amounts of local feedback is not a big deal and results in less time lag. Sorry for my lack of clarification.Tom: That was a good find. I'm s... | |
| Impendance - Resistance & the story of "Z" Gs: Your comments about resistance being frequency independent and impedance acting the opposite i.e. changing as frequency is altered was a very good point and easy to understand in the manner presented. I had worked that into my original post, b... | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers El: If such is the case, why not just run an equalizer to fine tune the sonics to what one wants to hear? One can achieve such results without spending much money at all. What does it matter what the source of colourations are so long as one enjoy... | |
| Negative feedback, voltage and output impedance Negative feedback aka "error correction circuitry" is kind of like trying to bail water out of a boat that has a major leak. Plug the hole i.e. build a linear circuit first, then worry about corrective measures later ( if needed at all ). After al... | |
| Is it best to use a 5-channel amp for biamping?? Increasing power typically results in a more consistent presentation regardless of volume. This translates to maintaining a more cohesive and liquid presentation as spl's are increased rather than the grain, glare and distorton that we experienced... | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers Greg: Room gain is very difficult to calculate and will somewhat vary with size of the room and speaker placement within the room. This is why good engineers design a speaker for specific placement within a room. Bare in mind that i'm not just tal... | |
| Impendance - Resistance & the story of "Z" I started to type out a very long explanation of voltage, current, inductance, reactance, impedance, etc... It is hard to explain exactly what Impedance (Z) is without knowing what the various factors that go into making it up really consist of. N... |