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| Can a MC cartridge be used with a MM preamp? Probably. But I wonder if "high output" MC pickups that are made to operate into high impedance preamps retain the qualities that MC pickups are known for. My advice is stay with a good MM, or jump into the deep end with a new preamp and a "real" ... | |
| Surround Speakers Aunest...I would say it's the other way around. Have you listened to any of the European Audiophile DVD-A discs from Tacet or MDG, or the domestic products from AIX? These, and some SACDs, caused me to upgrade my rears from pretty good Dynaudio mo... | |
| Surround Speakers IMHO...you will not realize the potential of surround sound unless all the speakers are top quality, preferably the same. | |
| Maggie's and cats The trouble with a kitten is that,Eventually, it becomes a cat.(Ogden Nash) | |
| Maggie's and cats Once upon a time we had cats and Maggies. Sometimes I would come into the living room to find a cat perched on top of a Maggie. I have described my cat training method as "shock and awe", and it worked. The cat quickly learned that the Maggies wer... | |
| Thoughts on single driver speakers "Full Range" cone drivers are not really "single" drivers. "Cone breakup" occurs, so that different parts of the cone are radiating different frequencies. Design of such a driver is more of an art than a science. The breakup characteristics of the... | |
| Dust??? With very high voltage power supplies, such as required for a CRT (TV picture tube) dust will be attracted to, and will eventually cause failure of the power supplies. For low voltages, such as used for solid state equipment, there is little tenda... | |
| what is the best way to deal w/ an asymnetrical .. I am not sure that an asymmetrical room is any problem. In a concert hall, most of the audience sits towards one sidewall or the other. My room is very asymmetrical, straight wall with windows and fireplace on one side, and multiple hallways and a... | |
| Point to point wiring. Circuit boards (if intelegently designed) enable optimum placement of components with minimal wire runs between them. And, it avoids the need for wire "dressing", which always was something of an art. Depending on how many of the circuits you will... | |
| Magnepan MMG's just arrived Of course 100 watts is "enough". They will sound great. But...in my experience, each increase in power has made an improvement. I can drive my MG1.6 with 100, 200, 350, 450, or 600 watt amps (4 ohms). Clearly the best results are the with the 600 ... | |
| To Hot to Handle? What generates the heat in a tube amp? I know that the tube filiaments, turned on all the time even with no signal, generate a lot of heat. That is their purpose...to "boil off" electrons. The power transformer heat will vary somewhat with signal,... | |
| Digital potentiometers versus mechanical? The best "pots" are actually stepped attenuators: a ladder network of fixed resistors selected by a multiposition switch. A digital attenuator can be mechanized with the same ladder network of resistors, but with the switch contacts replaced by di... | |
| To Hot to Handle? If heat generation is a major factor to consider, the obvious solution is a digital amp, which are said to exhibit sonic characteristics similar to tube circuits. My CarverPro ZR1600 (good for 600 wpc into 4 ohms) draws about 45 watts with no sign... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test The "ice-brewed beer" method of increasing alcohol content is an age old method, best known for Jersey Lightning. This is fermented apple cider which you put out the window in the fall so that the water freezes. Then you pour off the liquid residu... | |
| The Great Cryo'd Outlet Test Zaikesman...Further comment"? I think you pretty much put the lower resistance argument to bed in the posting above. I might only add that citing lowered resistance as an advantage of Cryo is, in general, the kind of misapplied science that, once ... |