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| Dedicated Line, Surge and Safety That's right. But more importantly, I suggest that you set up TWO dedicated lines, in order to isolate digital components from analog...or at least use your pre-existing house line to maintain isolation. I also believe that using better cable (Tef... | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers The "thickening" in response when one tries to get more bass warmth by taking advantage of walls' reinforcement is more due to the automatic "revoicing" of the upper-bass/low-mids region due to the change from in frequency of the 2pi/4pi transitio... | |
| Understanding impedence matching ...if it's a tube amp ask for the oftentimes dirty little secret of it's output impedence. This will give you a hint as to how much relative frequency response trampolining can occur compared to another amp. Again, you have to home-demo WITH your ... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Psych's comic comment has an element of usefulness (!).It's my belief that isothermality has a good deal to do with assuring stable performance of many sensitive instruments. I'm of course biased toward thinking so after spending a decade calibrat... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test I have a close friend who's a piezo-transducer wiz, making what are arguably the best pickups for acoustical instruments, and OE supplier to the guitar giants, too.He told me there was a cryo-craze back a few years ago among the guitar string manu... | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers Sean, not with the same total bass output. Vents = free extra bass SPLs, good or bad. | |
| Understanding impedence matching Still with us, Cc? Just be careful to home-demo ANY amp you try with a relatively high output impedence, like many tube amps. Simple. | |
| Carmina Burana - I need a good CD It's decent, but try the Shaw/Atlanta. It's pretty wonderful. | |
| Power Conditioner Helpful? Richard, given the dedicated lines and your comments re a low noise floor and lack of grunge I'd suggest you buy more software, not hardware, and enjoy more music! | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test I tried a cryo'd HBL8300 (Porter Port) and a normal 8300 in my system, first with the EMC-1 UP and then on my Aleph P. Couldn't hear a difference. I then simnplified to just using the EMC-1 alone, fed DIRECTLY to Senn HD600 cans through the RCA ou... | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers Hi Sean. Sealed is smaller? I think you meant compared to TL, of course, since manufacturers use vents specifically because of that free bass from a cheaper, smaller enclosure. And you know, given that the lower 2/3 of a speaker's height is relati... | |
| Best speaker cable in the $2,500 range Oops! Apology to Mr Schult...I was referring to another individual with a similar name, and thought the first reference was simply a typo. Ern | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers Phew! Lots of reading....Glad to see that "Q" was discussed. Balancing enclosure size, driver characteristics, vent frequency and sensitivity is certainly an art. Not having heard the 20T, I would nonetheless find it a bit difficult to believe tha... | |
| Best speaker cable in the $2,500 range C'mon, Shultz is trying to justify $$$ cables. The answer is BOTH are correct. Good components are good components, yet must be combined to form a "recipe" that works. Food is a good analogy. You want fine ingredients balanced and cooked well to p... | |
| Understanding impedence matching A couple of practical points specific to your components: since your pre has an output impedence of 800 ohms, using the 1:10 rule your power amp should have an input impedence of at least 8k, which is easy to find. (My Alephs, for example, have an... |