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| The Carver Amp Challenge and the 21st Century and it's Failure Yeah, that was part of the story. It started with a bold claim from Carver stating his amplifier was indistinguishable from a tube unit. I believe Peter Aczel picked up the story in his review magazine, The Audio Critic. When it wasn't the sa... | |
| Anyone had the equipment customized ? That does make a lot of sense. Rail to ground decoupling caps work much better at killing noise when they have a moderate amount of ESR in them while DC Blocking caps passing a signal work best when ESR is held to a minimum. | |
| Speaker cables for Martin Logan Montis Oh, an inverter man! Awesome. I'm an analog design guy, board level, so discreet semi's, op amps, high power analog, amplifiers, & PCBA's are where I live. I do have a second degree in embedded processors, although I haven't done much prog... | |
| Anyone had the equipment customized ? When I was modifying equipment and making money at it, I found some horrible stuff that came in from folks who someone modify it but didn't know what they were doing. One crossover came in the shop and the guy used acid core solder on all the co... | |
| Need Receiver Help: High Quality Ampification & DAC, Digital input to Zone 2, Older is OK Sarsicism has a point. If that second DAC is to your liking, you do have a solution. | |
| Speaker cables for Martin Logan Montis Well, I'm sorry, I don't have a recommendation for you for a particular cable. What I do when searching for a cable is I look at the inductance and capacitance of the cable, assuming the manufacturer specifies it, and how it is made, the dielectr... | |
| Speaker cables for Martin Logan Montis That is not exactly correct. The formula is XL = 6.28 x F x L, so you can see that the impedance of an inductor drops with frequency. So they become a dead short at low frequencies. So the frequency where the inductor has an impact is F = (... | |
| Meridian Trifield? I can't comment on reliability of Meridian products, as I am not familiar with them. Regarding the center channel for two channel playback, it does require an additional speaker and another amplifier, which is mono. Center is R+L and you can ad... | |
| Speaker cables for Martin Logan Montis I have not tried this so I can't speak from experience. Remember, low inductance with a resulting high capacitance cable is what is needed for dynamic loudspeakers, since they are inductive and have low impedance at low frequencies. In general... | |
| Need Receiver Help: High Quality Ampification & DAC, Digital input to Zone 2, Older is OK Hmmm, I think there is a better way to do what you want to do. You only need one DAC and I believe that Onkyo should put the analog output onto its preamp output jacks in the back. If so, you can just pipe analog to the second system. | |
| Anyone had the equipment customized ? Yes; kinda, maybe, sort of. Being a electrical design engineer, I design a log of amplifiers and analog control electronics at work. So naturally, I do this at home with some of my equipment. For a while, I was doing custom electronic design f... | |
| Volume Control for second set of speakers Nope, that won't work, you are switching power, not line level signals. What would work, is to use the line level outputs from your amp, feed it into the volume control unit you found, and hook up another amp for speakers B. Not what you wante... | |
| Upgrade advice from old Cardas Quadlink 5 RCA Interconnects I'd call the manufacturer and start there. For cables, to me it has been try it and see if it works. | |
| Need advice for a beginner. I did that when we lived in the previous house, which was much smaller and I had the home theater and stereo in the same room. I used a preamp with the high end power amps for the stereo and a home theater receiver for the home theater system. ... | |
| Micro Seiki BL-111, how good is it ? I have a RX1500 along with the outboard motor and vacuum options. I am very pleased with it and see no need to replace it with a newer unit. Personally, I think it is good enough to run with the newer big buck units. Keep in mind that this is... |