sleepwalker65
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| Using a Studio EQ for Vinyl playback This comes under my heading of “if it makes you happy, it can’t be so bad” to plagiarize Sheryl Crowe. I personally like to use a graphic equalizer to compensate for the effects of the way room acoustics play with my speakers, to arrive at somethi... | |
| Fuse upgrades? -- 6.3 amp 250v 5X20mm fast blow fuses @auxinput I agree, any fuse that comes after the power supply filter capacitor(s) has potential to affect current delivery and hence sound quality. For that reason, I prefer fusing only on the power transformer primary side, where it should have z... | |
| Fuse upgrades? -- 6.3 amp 250v 5X20mm fast blow fuses @clearthink I am very well-informed, having an engineering background and work in the broadcast media industry. I know what limits the DC power supply places on sound quality, and fully understand the ramifications of placing a weak link in the ch... | |
| Fuse upgrades? -- 6.3 amp 250v 5X20mm fast blow fuses Fuses have no bearing on sound quality unless they are directly between the output stage of the power amps and speakers. Remember, it is the secondary of the amplifier’s power transformer that does all the heavy lifting (typically 5:1 current rati... | |
| Help with DIY dedicated circuit Your stove should be on a 40 amp circuit, which requires 8/3 Romex cable. Change the breaker from the 40 amp twin breaker to a 20 amp twin breaker then make the stove receptacle box a junction box where you splice some 12/3 Romex to the 8/3 Romex ... | |
| Power help @kosst_amojan your message is contradictory. Re-engineering a power supply will be nearly impossible for most people who don’t have the knowledge or means. Even for people who have the knowhow, the cost of upgrading power supply upgrade parts and ... | |
| Power help The APC UPS puts out terrible, square wave power that’s full of noise that even the best linear power supply can’t clean up. The APC also doesn’t cutover cleanly from utility power to battery power. You could go with an on-line pure sine wave out... | |
| Cartridge for stock Technics 1200G tonearm I’ve got the upscale sister model to the SL-1200mk2, the SL-1700mk2, which has essentially the same tonearm as the SL-1200G. The Audio Technica VM540ML on the Technics headshell sounds fantastic. Added bonus of the micro line contact stylus is ex... | |
| How does cable length affect sound? Speaker cables should ideally be as short as practical, as excessive length causes power loss due to the relatively heavy current running through them. With dual monoblock amplifiers, you can probably place them a couple feet to the side of each s... | |
| No one actually knows how to lculate what speaker cable they need @b4icu said:For the 3x0 AWG suggestion: My suggestion was for 3 AWG at 8’.You require 20’. That increases the cable resistance by 3 and if you go to the guage table it calls for a 3 times 0 AWG to keep it the same as a 3 AWG of 8’ long.That’s Ohms... | |
| CDs Vs LPs @elizabeth said: I say specially when the mice are in the Man’s underpants. Elizabeth: care to explain what you mean? | |
| CDs Vs LPs Garbage in = garbage out. | |
| CDs Vs LPs @elizabeth no need to get all pious and judgemental just because I’m peeling the onion. Try objectivity. It’s more mature than getting personal. Now, please explain to me how program material that was captured in samples can be guaranteed to be PE... | |
| CDs Vs LPs To all who believe that CD sacrifices none of the original program material, I ask this: if it was not recorded in 100% entirety, how can you be 100% certain that the program is PERFECTLY reproduced? Here’s the issue: what comes out cannot be supe... | |
| CDs Vs LPs @cleeds the fact is that while the data is still represented as a staircase, (lollipop diagram if you prefer), the nature of sampling means that some information is left out during digitizing and then on playback, it is artificially synthesized. T... |