spatialking
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| What is this feature? Nope, no negatives, and I don't believe there is an official name for it. It is a nice feature, right next to a time delay when powering up a power amp and getting a huge thump in your subs. | |
| Isolation - Isacoustics Puck Mini vs Herbie’s Fat Dots This is specialized enough that you would have to try it and find out for yourself. The question is not so much will it improve things but if the improvement, one way or the other, is worth the cost. I suggest you try it and experiment, eventu... | |
| Integrityhifi TRU-GLIDER Pendulum Tonearm The VIv Lab Rigid Tonearms is a very interesting design. The concept of using a liquid for bearings goes way back in time. Light houses used mercury to float the huge and heavy light assemblies for almost no friction. Does anyone on this board... | |
| Backup Generator transfer switch It is possible the main transformer down his street shorted a winding about the time of the installation and that is the reason he is having sound quality problems. There isn't anything in the ATS that can clip a 120VAC sine wave but if he reall... | |
| Ideas For A Beefy Solid State Amp For Subwoofer Duties Or do this one: Parasound NewClassic 2250 v.2 Two Channel Power Amplifier-Audio AdvisorI have one and it is a great sounding amplifier and it is on sale for $999. It is a stereo amplifier so get two of them so each channel drives one sub. It... | |
| Scratching my head...Bluesound Node 2i direct to amp Maybe it is just me, but it seems all the home theater receivers I have owned, four so far, sound fine in home theater with movies but fall short of a good quality two channel sound system. Even putting them in "Direct" or "Pure two channel" mo... | |
| IC vs. S/PDIF? The 75 Ohm is the "characteristic impedance" and pretty much all video gear is 75 Ohms. When the impedance of the output source and the termination source matches the characteristic impedance of the cable, there will be less overshoot and ringin... | |
| Are there any other cheaper options for power regeneration than PS Audio Yes, some folks here recommend Pure Power and others recommend Goal Zero Yeti 400. I haven't used either of these so this is not a recommendation from me, only repeating what others have found to work well for them. I know there are others out... | |
| APS Pure Power A/C Regenerators @bifwynne The reason most companies don't provide EMI filtering is cost plus the fact so many engineers and managers just don't get the fact it isn't "just 60 Hz" coming out of the wall. If it was, there would be no need for any filtering or iso... | |
| Just how many outlets do you need for your stereo? So, I installed the Pyle PS-1000 unit and have been playing around with it for a while now. The very low level hum that was evident from APC unit is gone and with it there was a noticeable sound quality improvement. I'm not saying this Pyle un... | |
| Backup Generator transfer switch I have been following M. Fremer's problem in Stereophile closely as well. As I mentioned before in other posts, I am Director of Engineering at a green energy company and we bought that exact same transfer switch to reverse engineer. As you mi... | |
| Just how many outlets do you need for your stereo? @jafreeman I agree, when you have a ton of money invested in a system, why skimp on dedicated 20A line? In general, it isn't too expensive to have an electrician install one and usually it's free to get a quote. @clearthinker Those torridal tra... | |
| Just how many outlets do you need for your stereo? The two Pyle PS1000 units arrived today. The PS stands for Power Sequencer and it will sequence 8 outlets Overall, it is a clean build and well worth the $125 price for each. The sequencer can be daisy chained so up to 100 outlets can be sequ... | |
| Just how many outlets do you need for your stereo? @mitch2 @audioguy85 Thanks for the info, it was very helpful. The two units from Amazon arrive today - these are the two I mentioned before . For $250, I am not expecting much in the filtering but the sequencing will be much appreciated. I ... | |
| Just how many outlets do you need for your stereo? @cakyol Actually, all of the equipment is plugged into one outlet. I agree, everything should run from one potential. A while back I had one amp plugged into an outlet 6 feet away but it was wired to the opposite side of the distribution panel... |