shadorne
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| Refrigerator noise Are you using just a stock power cord on the fridge? Have you considered a power conditioner on the fridge? Another option might be acoustic treatments - try sorbothane pads around the compressor or place the fridge on a Svelte Shelf. | |
| The Richard Clark "all amps sounds the same" test My guess is all these tests were done transistor vs transistor- I'm pretty sure I'd be hard pressed to accurately tell the difference. I agree - I would suspect the majority of high end car amplifiers are soild state - I would imagine microphonic... | |
| Best Rock Albums in 2009, so far Marty,The key with Booker T is that he knows how important it is when you DON'T play. It is often more important what you leave out or don't play! The right phrasing and space is what it is all about and makes it interesting. | |
| don't you love it when everyting fits in place .. Cool - please cue up some Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Gotta luv New Orleans. | |
| Why manufactures don´t burn in their amps and ... True. But along the lines of Mitch2's comment, all of the effects mentioned in Ralph's post can be avoided simply by having adequately low resistance in the path between outlet and power amp. An indeed that is what I have found to be the mystery ... | |
| Totem Model One: Woofer buzzing, help please? Would a solution be as simple as getting a replacement pair of woofers and hooking them up? Yes - provided you find the correct replacement woofer from Dynaudio. It is very easy to replace woofers in most speakers. I am not familiar with Totem On... | |
| Why manufactures don´t burn in their amps and ... Every 200+ Watt per channel amp that I have owned came with extremely thick stock power cords. I think Ralph is on to something there. Power cords are important when it comes to high power output devices. | |
| The Richard Clark "all amps sounds the same" test I am surprised that this is not generally accepted. My experience is that most good solid state amplifiers which are operated well within their capability (no clipping - i.e. at very modest levels) do sound quite close to eachother - much closer t... | |
| any early 80's alt/soft punk fans out there? Another INXS fan here...gotta love that Rhinoceros Studios ATC sound quality. | |
| Hertz Meter Reading Device If I set a sat's level to be 85dB, by SPL meter, at 1K Hz and then set the sub's level to be 85dB at 40 Hz, why don't we attempt to compensate for the loudness curve and set the level higher than 85dB so the perceived level matches not the measur... | |
| Upgrading wall outlets But sales of expensive amplifiers depend on the audiophile's belief that quality/expense of any component is correlated with beautiful sound. In most amplfiers the single most expensive item on the BOM will be be the beautiful thick brushed steel... | |
| Upgrading wall outlets But what, exactly, constitues this "unreliability" of high end audio power supplies that you mention? And how would simlpy changing a household power outlet cause a significant change to the sound (via a change in output to the speakers) from said... | |
| Upgrading wall outlets Br3098,Some of the high end audio equipment is so unreliable that almost anything can cause a change in response. In fact some equipment probably never sounds the same twice ever anyway. In this case, every change including the material used in th... | |
| Amp damping factor? An amp doesn't have a damping factor. Damping factor is the ratio of the rated impedance of the loudspeaker to the source impedance. The convention is to report Damping Factor into an 8 ohm load - so for pratical purposes one might say that power... | |
| Best Rock Albums in 2009, so far Yeah Booker's album also rocks with the best of 'em. |