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| If Money Were No Object... A Fantasy Question When money is of no consequence and you want the best, the answer is obvious. If it isn't obvious, just ask Dr Amar Bose what he would buy : ) Sean> | |
| Sistrum or Neuance or...? Newbee: I don't know if what i was trying to explain was a matter of "increased gain" as much as a perceived altering of tonal balances and amplitude linearity. As we all know, altering the tonal balance of a system can have us thinking that the t... | |
| What effects soundstage more .... As far as "harshness" goes with the X2.5 / X-250, look to the source, preamp or cabling, not the amp. As far as cabling goes, Pass X series amps and Goertz MI-2 speaker cables were made for each other as far as i'm concerned. If you want lush soun... | |
| Reference quality line stage? If you're considering the Blowtorch, make sure that your sources have a relatively high level of output. From what i can remember, the Blowtorch doesn't have as much gain and you may have a hard time driving an insensitive amp to full ouptut with ... | |
| How do you know when to use ANALOG vs DIGITAL? There really is no such thing as an "analogue" or "digital" interconnect. When someone refers to a "digital" RCA based interconnect, it is typically assumed that the cable maintains a nominal impedance of 75 ohms. As mentioned though, this is "ass... | |
| Not a ground loop hum??? Max: The caps won't correct what is a design error or quality control problem with the Blue Circle PLC. If you want to use that and get good results, it needs to be replaced or repaired for proper operation. That is, if this unit doesn't take stan... | |
| Sistrum or Neuance or...? Newbee: You can attribute variables in sonics due to a rack change in multiple manners. The most logical to me would be altering resonances in the room itself, especially over a narrow bandwidth. Some racks are going to contribute high frequency e... | |
| Scratchy/Noisy volume knob on Audio Refinement Amp Here ya go.... Sean>cleaning noisy pots | |
| its all in the details Piezo: Glad to see that you're efforts paid off. Elbow grease can go a lot further than money if properly applied. With that in mind though, i would check the bias on your tubes again in a short period of time. It is not abnormal for circuits that... | |
| Boomy bass in home theater room The limited thickness foam treatments that you have may actually be increasing the apparent "bass bloat" that you are experiencing. Due to their non-linear frequency absorption characteristics, which will suck up the highs and upper mids, the bass... | |
| What's supporting your speakers? I put large chunks of fresh red meat under my speakers. From the high amplitude low frequency vibrations, the meat is slowly tenderized to perfection. Only thing is, you have change your speaker supports daily or they draw flies : ) Sean> | |
| Not a ground loop hum??? Balanced power WILL play games with an AC polarity tester and is the sole exception to what we think of as "proper AC power". Anything else should have a very specific hot, neutral and ground ( as far as i know ). Sean> | |
| Legacy 20/20 and Tubes If a 3 octave bass plateau that starts at 300 Hz and levels out at 40 Hz with a +7 dB peak centered at 100 Hz combined with a +4 dB peak at 6 KHz, a -3 dB dip at 9 KHz and another big +8 dB peak at appr 12 KHz with horrible transient response fact... | |
| Not a ground loop hum??? Max: Why don't you call up Blue Circle and let then know what is going on. If you don't have a local dealer that you purchased it from, BC should cover the bill on shipping both ways since this whole mess was due to their lack of quality control t... | |
| Replacing sound proofing in cabniets You can't replicate the response of a transmission line with anything other than a transmission line and even then there are variables involved. Other than that, i try to avoid vents of any type as much as possible. If i had to choose out of what ... |