eldartford
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| System Gain, Volume, and component matching? Germanboxers...2 vrms is what you get when the CD that you are playing is maxed out. Music has wide dynamic range so an average value would not make much sense. Now, if the player has been mod they may have made gain changes up or down. Increased ... | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? Audiotomb....It's too bad that you have never heard a good multichannel audio system. They do exist, and discs to play on them. | |
| System Gain, Volume, and component matching? Of course the output of the CD player depends on how loud the recorded music is when you measure it. Two volts is the maximum rms voltage from a CD player when all 16 bits of the CD media are used, and this is called the 0 dB level. 20 dB down fro... | |
| 120/115V vs. 100V .Low voltage can be harmful, but this depends in part on the way the power supply is designed. If it is a regulated supply, and the voltage is close enough to be within the regulator range there would be no effect at all. I don't think that there ... | |
| Does DK Design actually design and manufacture? In today's world "Cheap" often reflects an efficient manufacturing process rather than poor performance. Many people still think that quality requires a higher price, and therefore equate high price with quality. Audiophiles tend to be in that gro... | |
| 8 Vs 4 ohms inpepinnovations@aol.com...If the 4 ohm and 8 ohm taps have the same voltage (per your comment) why do we have two taps? Actually, the 8 ohm tap has twice the windings of the 4 ohm tap, and puts out twice the voltage as Cford noted. So, for a give... | |
| Servo controlled speakers and subwoofers sirspeedy70680@earthlink.netMaybe 57 is "well under 60", but if I figure it correctly this is only 0.45 dB down! It's closer than you think. | |
| What is under your TT, cheap islolation? I don't know why people continue to have problems with TT vibration. Mine went almost completely away about thirty years ago when I got an Empire TT which had two features of interest. (1) The platter and the arm moved together on soft springs. (2... | |
| Transformer Hum As Newbee sez...a ground loop or interconnect alongside a power cord could cause hum, but I assumed that you have ruled such things out already. Evidently your other vintage amps don't exhibit the problem. | |
| Transformer Hum The most likely reason for hum with an old power amp is tired (old) electrolytic capacitors in the power supply. Replace them. If there still is a problem then look into other things. | |
| Servo controlled speakers and subwoofers A servo involves a sensor on the controlled device (in our case a small accelerometer on the woofer cone) which measures movement of the cone. With a non-servo system the power amp puts out a voltage according to the input signal. The voltage is a... | |
| VCR for analog TV as well as HDTV Not too long ago I bought a JVC VCR for a few bucks over $100, mainly to fill the slot in a TV/HT setup, and, on very rare occasions, play a tape. Viewed on a 42" EDTV plasma the picture is much better than I expected. It does depend on the partic... | |
| Does DK Design actually design and manufacture? DK Design operates like most other manufacturers. Try another question. | |
| EQ's... why doesnt everybody have one? Henryhk...Digital Sound Processing (DSP) which includes EQ is almost universally done using a 32bit floating point processor called SHARC from Analog Devices. Google it. It, and everyone else but Sony, works with PCM.SACD does not output digital, ... | |
| 2-channel listening with a sub-woofer I have heard a lot about how hard it is to "integrate" a subwoofer with planar speakers like my Maggies. In my custom designed subwoofer system,I have been very successful in this regard, and I think that the reasons are as follows.1...I went with... |