eldartford
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| Why are audiophiles perceived as being wackos? Albertporter...Cryo is just a more extreme form of heat treatment that has long been used to modify metalurgical properties important to wear of mechanical parts such as those mentioned. That would not be "Wacko". Spark plugs?? Well I suppose that... | |
| Why are audiophiles perceived as being wackos? Who? Me?.If car buffs thought they could increase acceleration by Cryo treating their spark plugs, they would get the same treatment.. | |
| Digital Amp's Faziod..."give me a Class A SS amp." To whom should I apply for this "gift", which I agree would be nice to have. Can I get 600 watts into 4 ohms?. In the real world, digital amps are usually the best solution. | |
| Why am I experiencing listener's fatigue? Buyers remorse. You are thinking about all the fun you could be having if you had spent money differently.Buy a Bose and a motorcycle. | |
| Digital Amp's With regard to technical advantages, digital amps excel at just about everything.How they sound is a subjective thing that you need to judge for yourself. Some audiophiles say they are great, while others complain. (What would you expect!).One asp... | |
| Phonostage Burn-in to keep unit sharp Yesterday I accidentally tuned my FM tuner to a Rap music station and it played through my amplifier for several minutes before I realized what was going on. This caused the transistors to become very traumatized, and I expect that several hours o... | |
| acoustic vs. electronic It was long believed that those early (pre-electronic) recordings had "a lot of static and noise, and no bottom or top end, with very limited dynamic range". In recent years it has been discovered, through digital conversion and analysis, that hig... | |
| why spikes under speakers??? First Law....You can't win.Second Law...You can't break even.Vibration must be converted to heat in some damping medium. If you "drain" vibration to the earth, you are contributing to global warming. Shame! | |
| Subwoofer Amp Recommendations Sean...The DC blocking capacitor of the typical power amplifier (non-DC-coupled), is at the INPUT, not the output. The only power amplifier that I know of with a series capacitor output is (was) the Dynaco ST120, their first solid state amplifier,... | |
| Mono recording question... The MONO switch on a preamp adds the two input channels together and outputs this result to both channels. This will cancel any signal that is out of phase in the two input channels. This is a good thing to do when, for example, playing a Mono LP ... | |
| If Audio bug never hit you, what hobby might have? I would own my own airplane. | |
| advice on hiding cables Purchase $6000 cables, and display them with pride. | |
| phantom center channel Kr4...I beg to differ with you about the effectiveness of deriving a center channel from a 2-channel source. In many recordings where there is a soloist, he/she was originally recorded as a discrete channel, and was subsequently mixed equally into... | |
| integrateds in the modern age: consensus? If all the source signals are at line level (which means that any TT has its own outboard phono preamp) a separate box called a "preamp" really makes no sense. It costs very little to build the selector switch and volume control into the power amp... | |
| Equipment Set-up Recommendations? Tbg...I am quite sure that this vibration isolation table would clean up any mechanical vibration affecting a TT. But, my experience suggests that acoustic input to the LP remains a problem even when the mechanical input is reduced to zero. A reco... |