kirkus
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| In-Wall Long Runs of Speaker Cable Actually, Transparent does have a whole line of in-wall products, and they're excellent . . . I think that they have stuff in your price range. All of their cables are plenum-rated, so they can be used in both residential and commercial.They have ... | |
| Would I gain anything? I feel, as many do, that in the case of the L200 the whole is much less than the sum of the parts, and that they can be substantially improved with a degree of modification . . . esp. adding a tweeter and turning it into a three-way system.I will ... | |
| What's a good cartridge for infinity black widow? I remember getting good results with these 'back in the day' with an Ortofon OM30 and OM40, both of which are still available. The mounting, height, weight, and compliance all worked out great for this arm. | |
| Idea to reduce RFI >> That is, start with just power amp and speakers. Now, how does Milen007 get music to play thru the speakers? Run the CDP directly into the power amp?Uh, er, you don't LEAVE the system this way for listening to music. You stick your ear by... | |
| Why do my transformers hum sometimes? When you say that "all of the transformers" hummm . . . are you really sure? It only takes one for it to really, really sound that way sometimes.The most common cause of hum and buzz in power transformers is loose core laminations in the transform... | |
| Idea to reduce RFI If you want to eliminate an RF interference problem, then you must take the system completely, totally apart, then add each component to the system one at a time to see the point at which the RFI appears. That is, start with just power amp and spe... | |
| what are"fun" speakers? I don't think it's a left-handed compliment at all . . . I think it's a good thing for speakers to be 'fun'. It's just that frequently we'll give up some or all of the 'fun' part for other things.An automotive analogy: I have driven a Ferrari 550 ... | |
| Subwoofer damping I 'll say thanks......but do you really know everything.Oh God no . . . please, I didn't mean to offend.In my experience two extremely important pieces of information in problem diagnosis are "Did this thing ever work correctly?" and "Can this thi... | |
| Subwoofer damping Oh and for a crossover, an Ashly XR1001 is a great place to start. They're WAY better than the cost suggests, the manual is very well-written and explanatory, and it's made in the US . . . not like the cheap Behringer crap. | |
| Subwoofer damping The box is still abnormally huge for a typical driver of the size -- i.e. two drivers in a shared 14 cu. ft. enclosure is theoretically the same as two drivers, each in their separate 7 cu. ft. enclosure. If the port lengths/sizes are different fo... | |
| Subwoofer damping I actually wasn't thinking that your amp was clipping . . . I was speculating (as have a few others) that it's the subwoofer drivers themselves that are overloading.If the drivers are exposed on the bottom, and there are four ports, then I was wro... | |
| Subwoofer damping Hi Roger,I take it from your description and photos that the drivers are completely inside the box, and all of the sound comes out the ports? In other words, the drivers are not exposed at all?If this is the case, then you have a band-pass enclosu... | |
| Is it possible to divide digital output ? Steve is correct -- the only way to do this properly is with active buffering. TV/RF splitters would (kind of) preserve the impedance, but they are designed for frequencies above 50MHz in an application where transient response isn't critical, and... | |
| New Production EL34 / 6CA7 I also like the SED "Winged C" EL-34s. I've used them in Dynas and Marantzes, and (in these circuits) they have the lowest measured distortion (3rd H) as compared to Electro-Harmonix, Teslovak, Sovtek & Reflektor variants. They've also been ve... | |
| State of the art speakers from yesteryear. Here's a short list that fit my criteria, which is: pre-1980, well suited to a wide variety of music, works well in a domestic environment, and has a treble range that's smooth and well-dispersed enough to sound reasonably "modern", whatever that ... |