westcoastaudiophile
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| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? surely @bdp24: discrete capacitors and inductors can be represented in circuit simulator as RLC first/second/third order models, where R is ESR (equivalent series resistance), which in ideal capacitors/inductors is very low (TanD below ~0.01). h... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? as analog engineer, I would advise to be careful to just switch existing x-over components w/ “better” ones, because in many speaker designs x-over components parasitics are counted in speaker’s design optimization process. in my speaker design fl... | |
| HAVE CABLES EVER TAKEN YOUR SYSTEM FROM SOUNDING JUST OK TO SOUNDING GREAT? Experiences ? "have you ever made a cable change that opened up your system to new heights.” switching phono cable to balanced Phasemation CC-1200R was pretty big improvements, for MM and MC carts. as speaker cable in my 15ft long cable setup, Kimber Kable ... | |
| Best RCA Digicable pl check Oyaide cables | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? @phusis "Practically speaking the only trade-off with active is a higher electrical bill from the multitude of amps. " active x-over could actually save power and deliver higher SQ than passive one, by enabling mixing D (low/sub) and A (mid/high)... | |
| Help me choose a phono pre @dcp20124 Teac PE505 (S/B).. excellent RIAA perf., plenty of professional level features from Teac/Esoteric house.. | |
| Do I need upgraded power cables? drbond, what is "standard power cords for my amplifiers”? power interconnect issues could be related to bad contacts, oxidation, etc., including IEC and wall connections; periodic maintenance helps. | |
| KT88 Tubes @russbargmann unless your tubes ran more than 5000+ hours, you may swap L <=> R ones, and bias / balance accordingly to service (schematics) recommendation. | |
| Tone Arm lifts at end of playing a record klimt, I installed AT6006R safety riser on sl1200gae, precisely, and.. voila, one record can’t reach to the end, at one side.. that record has abnormal short runout track at one side, no worries, all other PLs are fine! | |
| Phasemation MC Phasemation PP200 sounds very accurate, precise, w/ Accuphase AD2850 phono-pre. Second similar cart I have is Phase Tech P3, which on my opinion is slightly better (PP300 alike). | |
| Does other Audiogon members' opinion carry any weight for you ? @unreceivedogma +1 "kick-the-tires kind of questions" | |
| AC cord for Manley Chinook... "Manley can benefit with a better PC” ..better comparing to what, and how? | |
| Looking for new speaker cables @jaybe what is the length of your speaker cables? also, do you have any preference on end termination solution? | |
| Buyer Beware congrats 2 sns! | |
| Has anyone switched from Class AB/A to Class D? Was it better? Was it worse? @atmasphere "target load in mind, which might be 4 or 8 Ohms” - in my 40y + sound works I haven’t seen such speaker, with purely resistive load (2/4/6/8/12/16)! In order to design output filter properly, we need to take complex model of loading, i... |