tom_nice
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| Sound proofing listening room As usual, I recommend reading F. Alton Everest's "Sound Studio Construction on a Budget", which deals with this problem (and a ton of others). | |
| Passive VS Active crossover-What s the difference s I'll make only one point: you can certainly have a passive dividing network coming BEFORE the power amps. You may need a buffer between it and the preamp, though. It's hard to get right, but not impossible, and the sonic benefits could be consider... | |
| Passive Stage preamp vs Active Stage Preamp I recommend a "Search" in the Audiogon Forum archives, for this topic has had a lot of discussion. I don't know that there is any "importance of using active stage in tube setup": I've been happily using passive preamps with three tube power amps.... | |
| How can I make my own acoustic materials? I have detailed DIY designs for three types of RPG-style diffusors which I'd be glad to email you. I used 1/2" medite for the first and have used Styrofoam (which does a fair amount of absorbing along with diffusing, more or less like RPG's Abffus... | |
| IC.to replace Pre-Out/Main-In jumper If you never want to use "Preamp Out" or "Main In", you might consider hardwiring between them inside the chassis. If the rest of your system is up to it, or becomes so with time and changes, that should definitely improve the sound.Where the bett... | |
| improving my system, please help Cinepro Line Balancers work very well in two systems of mine, but I'd still follow Blueswan's advice to put in a dedicated AC line and work on the room. If you know nothing you should read F. Alton Everest's "Master Handbook of Acoustics" (4th edi... | |
| Advice sought on Lowthers. You could look at two sites for radically different uses of Lowther drivers: (1) www.welbornelabs.com, "Oris Page", and (2) Lowther America (not sure of site designation). The difference is between a front horn (plus supplemental woofer NOT subwoo... | |
| FT Audio/ Passive Preamps - Comments? Do you have DIY cabilities? I've made six or seven passive preamps, the best using Shallco switches from The Parts Connection (with Holco resistors) and internal wire supplied by the Stealth cable designer. The only change I'd make with the TPC Sh... | |
| Best vibration tweaks I'm about to throw away three 12.5" bike inner tubes filled with mineral oil, since I've found something I think beats them and is hugely easier. Make a shallow tray, say, 20" x 15", with sides 2" high. The bottom should be hard. Make a plywood sh... | |
| Help I am in need of Expertise I don't know what your Counterpoint SA-9 IS, but in general, why not go as directly as possible into your tape recorder, see what it sounds like, and then decide whether to use more amplification? I've taped straight from a phono preamp and it has... | |
| Shipping to Japan? Any advice? I recently sent a Revox B77 tape deck to Japan. It weighed ovr 45 pounds so I HAD to send it by air, through USPS, and it cost, with insurance, close to $200. The buyer didn't mind. Under that weight, as yours would probably be, it would have been... | |
| Passive Preamp Problem If you can solder a bit, you could learn roughly what a passive would be like by making a simple attenuation network with a signal resistor Rs and a resistor to ground Rg such that Rs + Rg = 10K ohms. I've used a 10K ohm passive with 8' interconne... | |
| Monoblocks or upgrade to larger amp? Unless I missed it, no one has yet mentioned the advantage of short speaker cables (with a longer interconnect) that monoblocks offer. I found that to be a major improvement in a fairly controlled experiment: monoblocks in place, 7' and 18" speake... | |
| To Preamp or not to Preamp, that is my q I certainly wouldn't buy an active preamp before I'd tried one and compared. Your CD player may/may not be up to going it alone, you may/may not value transparency more than what you get (maybe euphonic) with an active preamp. I sold a CAT SL-1 II... | |
| where I might be able to find spk spades Why not try stnemo@starpower.net, the Stealth designer. He has silver spades made to his own design, and might be willing to sell you some. I've used his and Kimber, and while I can't say I've heard a difference in sound (since they were on very d... |