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| I'm confused Buscis: If the system was pulling as much power as you suggest, either the 15 amp breaker would be popping or there would be noticeable distortion of both the audio and video presentation on a regular basis. I do agree that there is a lot of gear ... | |
| Revox Turntable B790 audio. I'm thinking along the same lines as Twl i.e. Maestro is probably trying to drive a line level input with a MM cartridge. The cartridge in question is probably an Ortofon, but may have been replaced at some point in time. If such is the case, you ... | |
| How international is your system? I can't tell who made ANY of my gear or where it was made. All of the name tags and serial numbers have been removed. That must be the reason why i keep getting such good deals from the guy down at the local Pawn Shop... : ) Sean> | |
| Room Treatments added, with negative effects.. You don't want to absorb the sound behind the listening position i.e. diffraction is much better there.As far as the type of "room treatment devices" that you are working with, these do more harm than good due to their non-linear absorption charac... | |
| which damping factor is better for my speakers? Gustaty: Whoever is giving you advice regarding your amp being too powerful for use with your speakers, since they are "too efficient" is more confused than you are. As such, i would avoid asking them any further questions as they are only going t... | |
| Is a cable cooker worth it? If i was in your situation with your budget, i would not invest in an Audio Dharma. Having said that, i would either rent a machine to burn in all of your cables at one time or see if you can find someone that is trustworthy to burn yours in for y... | |
| I'm confused Lej: I have seen and heard these speakers. The installation was far from optimum and we only listened for a brief period of time. They are a relatively unique design, that is for sure. Sean> | |
| Echobusters "to gap from wall' or not I didn't mean to try and discourage you from attempting what you wanted to do. I was trying to point out more cost effective and better performing options. I need to remember that some folks are "handier" than others though. With that in mind, ext... | |
| I'm confused Buscis: While your comments about cleaning up the AC is quite valid in terms of providing a greater dynamic contrast, most multi-channel receivers are built phenomenally cheap. As such, the power supplies sag VERY noticeably when all channels are ... | |
| A Wholly Different Approach to Power Conditioning I agree with everything that Twl has mentioned here. Good sized ferrite chokes that are properly placed and applied can / will make a world of difference in an installation like this. Keeping the DC supply lines as short and as heavy as possible a... | |
| Echobusters "to gap from wall' or not If you are going to go through the trouble of doing that, you might as well fill in the back gap that you would be creating with poly fiber-fill. The amount of low frequency extension that you would get by just spacing them off the wall would not ... | |
| I'm confused Pick up a higher powered ( 150 - 200 wpc ) 3 channel amp and use that for your center, left and right channels. This will take the load off of the power supply in the Denon and allow it to deliver more power to the remaining four channels in both ... | |
| A Wholly Different Approach to Power Conditioning Power inverters can produce relatively "clean" output in terms of AC if well designed, but they can also produce GOBS of RFI ( quite common ) due to the switching impulses that they make use of to convert the AC to DC. As such, you could clean up ... | |
| Amp Advice for newbie Are you talking about the Sunfire Cinema Grand or the Sunfire Cinema Grand Signature ? Both are 400+ wpc, but the standard model does that at 4 ohms and the Signature does it at 8 ohms. Either way, the Sunfire's need a "real" low loss 20 amp circu... | |
| Why can't I hear 20 years of phono 'progress'?? I don't doubt your experience in the least. As far as Rega vinyl related products go, in my eyes / ears, they are way over-rated. I don't doubt that the Thorens can keep up with the "new & improved" Rega.As far as the basic Ortofon vs Grado "s... |