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| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Viber6 2-17-2019I was just asking if you could take a simple cable like zip cord with known specs at different gauges, and approximately predict that bass frequencies are reduced more than high freq. You can make up some numbers for some amps... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Viber6 2-16-2019 Yes, I have found that thinner speaker cable yields a more treble oriented balance.... Maybe almarg can help with some sensible science to back up our listening impressions, rather than the pseudoscience of many cable designers. T... | |
| Rel Connection to MC-2125 Although you’ve found a solution, I’ll mention that I took a look at the schematic for the amp, which is contained in the service manual which can be viewed at hifiengine.com if one is registered there, and I see no reason why you couldn’t use a t... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Jafox 2-16-2019Other than playing with the shield, if there is one, tying it to the ’-’ line at one end of the cable or the other, or perhaps a "network" on one end or the other, designating a speaker cable as "directional" sounds more like hype t... | |
| Is DEQX a game changer? Sincere condolences on the loss of your friend, Steve.Not moving the speakers to the center of the room for the speaker calibration measurements certainly figures to be a reason the PreMate didn’t provide much improvement. I had pointed out on 9-5... | |
| Did I just make my audio system too sensitive after adding a Herron VTPH-2A preamp? Slight correction to my previous post: "247 pf" should have been "267 pf."Regards,-- Al | |
| Did I just make my audio system too sensitive after adding a Herron VTPH-2A preamp? Gentlemen, as a point of information the AT-ML150/OCC is a moving magnet cartridge, and the 47K input impedance of the Herron’s moving magnet input is correct for it.Also, I believe that the cartridge has not been manufactured for quite a few year... | |
| Is DEQX a game changer? Thanks for the update, Steve. I’m curious, though, as to why the use of two monoblocks (I assume you meant per channel, in a biamp configuration) would make any difference with respect to the ability of the DEQX to improve the time coherence of th... | |
| Get your First Watt SIT-3 now? Thanks, Joe (Snopro). But the SIT-3 wouldn't work for me, as the DEQX HDP-5 I use as my preamp provides essentially zero gain from its analog inputs to its analog outputs. (And in fact the default positions of some internal jumpers result in neg... | |
| Get your First Watt SIT-3 now? Lwin, thanks for providing the additional perspective.George (Jetter), I've owned my XA25 for about five months now, and the early impressions you've probably seen me mention in other threads continue to apply. Basically, I've found Teajay's revi... | |
| Your favorite male soul voices Paul Robeson. For those who may not be familiar with him:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9WayN7R-sRegards-- Al | |
| Get your First Watt SIT-3 now? Those considering purchase of a SIT-3 should keep in mind that its gain is only 11.5 db, which is extremely low for a power amp. Consequently it requires a single-ended input of about 3.2 volts to be driven to its rated maximum power capability o... | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 Unity gain means that output voltage equals input voltage, which corresponds to a gain of 1 when expressed as a ratio, or to zero when expressed in db. Mike must have been referring to the gain of some stage within the amp, rather than to the gain... | |
| Recommendations on stuff to look at for upgrading a 300B SET amp What you are describing is referred to as passive horizontal biamping, JB. "Passive" because an active crossover is not being used to separate high and low frequencies "ahead" of the amps (the passive crossovers in the speakers doing that instead)... | |
| Pass Labs HPA-1 The SIT-3 has extremely low gain for a power amp, the spec being 11.5 db and Stereophile’s measurements indicating 11.3 db. In contrast, most Pass amps (and many others as well) have specified gains of 26 db.Based on the 11.3 db gain it can be cal... |