westcoastaudiophile
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| 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... | |
| Buyer Beware @sdorfman58 you may check if your purchase is compliant with USB standard / pass certification / etc here: https://www.usb.org/compliance | |
| SUT Interconnects Lewm, here is some cable manufacturer material to read about cables. There is also amplifier circuit input capacitance, which could be quite hard to measure. http://www.mogami.com/e/notes/capacitance.html "For cable using material having good hig... | |
| Difference in sound between copper and silver digital cables? "Difference in sound between copper and silver digital cables?” copper cable with air only dielectric will perform better than any silver + lossy + high-Er/TanD dielectric cable! | |
| SUT Interconnects "By using a meter which measures capacitance” yeah.. capacitance changes vs frequency, that’s why I measure capacitance / inductance / loss / resistance at 50/1000/10000/20000Hz points. | |
| Has anyone switched from Class AB/A to Class D? Was it better? Was it worse? @atmasphere "Actually there are a few class D amps that have a better first Watt than a good number of class A amps.” - list of “few” and “good” ones will be helpful! Analog output filter question: how output filter is designed, order, phase v f... | |
| Has anyone switched from Class AB/A to Class D? Was it better? Was it worse? @niodari you may read about class D design here: https://people.engr.tamu.edu/s-sanchez/ECEN%20607%20Class%20D%202011.pdf |