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| Seperate Power Supply and Preamps Outboard power supplies are only beneficial if the wiring harness connecting the supply and the main unit are of the LOWEST resistance possible. This means that the manufacturer would have to use heavier wire than if the supply was located in clos... | |
| Monoblocks or upgrade to larger amp? Going from 100 wpc to 250 wpc would be an appr. increase in power by 3.75 db's. In theory, this may not seem like much. In reality with power hungry speakers, it can make a WORLD of a difference. When i changed amps in one system using "power hung... | |
| Best tweak Good going Ernie. I was going to try something like that with a power regenerator sometime soon. Glad to see that it paid off for you. Your feedback gives me more of an incentive to "get around to it" a little quicker. As to Robedk's "door stop" t... | |
| Monoblocks or upgrade to larger amp? All things being equal and so long as their is no question about the sonic differences amongst the amps, the Dynaudio's will always work best with the most power. If you aren't going to actively bi-amp, i would stear towards whatever gave you the ... | |
| "Vintage" speakers...good idea? You must also take into consideration that parts values, especially capacitors, change with age. As such, most old speakers need to be "re-capped" for best performance. Since caps have come a long way in the last 25 years or so, this can take some... | |
| Dealers and changing product lines Gregg brings up what may be a very valid point. Dealers can "blow out" a lot of stock quite quickly by reducing prices that otherwise may have cost them their dealership with that brand of product. As such, the manufacturer is glad that the dealer... | |
| Highest B/B Let me get this straight. You're simply looking for a good sized amp to break in some speakers and the sonics are not important ???? The most wattage per dollar that i can think of can usually be found in a Phase Linear 400. At 200 wpc @ 8 and pri... | |
| Close your eyes and hear the music ? Since i think that everyone was pretty much afraid to "go there", i'll have to explain my "inside joke" about Bob's system. The "side effects" of having horn loaded speakers MIGHT be that it makes one "horny". With some good tunes and his woman pr... | |
| Audio Research REF600 MKI MKII Short of driving an amp into clipping, fewer output devices will almost always result in a more stable circuit that should measure and sound better under normal operating conditions. This is due to the fact there are fewer components in the total ... | |
| Confused By A Transport Upgrade While i could be wrong about this, i think that the MF E-60 is actually a Marantz unit in terms of the actual "guts". Could be mistaken though, as i'm simply going on what someone else had mentioned somewhere down the line. Sean> | |
| Power Cord Advice Geeze, here we go again with the "Absolute" deal again. No offense to those that own these cords as I know that some of the regulars have them, but the responses / plugs mentioning them sure seem like "plants" or "shills" to me. This is especially... | |
| Close your eyes and hear the music ? Bob has a "problem" when listening to music and his wife is in the room. You can call it a side-effect of his speakers. Anybody wanna guess what it is ??? : ) Sean> | |
| NjoeTjoeb 4000 VS Planet2000 "Ding Ding" I think Njoe Tjoeb is pronounced "new tube". Someone please correct me and slap me silly if i'm mistaken : ) Sean> | |
| Scientist finds fungus that eats cd's This was reported a year or two ago by someone at the Asylum. They too were located somewhere in South America and had a 300 disc changer fully loaded. We assumed that the "fungus" had somehow found its' way into the player, possibly via attaching... | |
| where I might be able to find spk spades For the record, four 16 gauge wires is equivalent to a 10 gauge conductor. Since the jackets will be somewhat buckled up against each other, you may have to strip of slightly more wire than you normally would in order to get them into a spade. If ... |