eldartford
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| Magnepans and cats, do they mix? The plastic bags can be used in a different way. Need I explain? | |
| silver vs silver coated digital coax? Some wires promoted as "silver" are actually silver plated. Don't fall for this. | |
| How can you tell when you need to replace tubes? When I used tube amps this question always bugged me. Being bugged distracts from musical enjoyment. Tubes degrade gradually, so it is not easy to recognize how bad they have gotten.The best suggestion I have heard is to keep a spare set of new tu... | |
| Using bi-wire cables on non-biwirable speakers There is scant (but not quite zero) scientific reason for biwire connection to speakers that have separate connections for the woofer and tweeter crossover sections. There is absolutely nothing to be gained by running separate wires to a common wo... | |
| fuses - the $39 ones or the 85 cent ones Kirkus...OK. I will try your kind of experiment. The easiest way to do it would be to simply "slap the mic cable around" which goes from an actual mic to my Behringer DEQ2496 spectrum analyser. The analyser is very sensitive and will show sound le... | |
| Magnepans and cats, do they mix? We once had a cat that would climb up my Maggies and perch on the top. They were old MGII with a relatively wide wood frame. Evidently there was enough clearance between the cloth and the diaphram so that the claws did no damage. The cloth was the... | |
| fuses - the $39 ones or the 85 cent ones I was curious about the theory that vibration applied to wires and/or electronics would generate some kind of signal. So...I put a high gain phono preamp into a closed box with a speaker system, and blasted it with very high volume sound... much h... | |
| AC Power Between Amp and Preamp I have an old and inexpensive Adcom ACE-515 AC Enhancer. It isn't anything fancy, and Adcom now sells an improved model. However, it does claim to do some filtering and spike/surge protection, but for me the best feature is that it properly sequen... | |
| fuses - the $39 ones or the 85 cent ones 236 comments about fuses! Good grief! | |
| AC Power Between Amp and Preamp Switching the many amps drawn by the power amp will shorten the life of the switch in the preamp. Why not get a heav duty relay from Radio Shack and let it do the switching. You can get a relay where the coil (control) is 115 volts. Install the re... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Shadorne...If a cable causes a pulse risetime anomaly (such as a spike) it will happen for every pulse. All will be delayed or trigered early by the same amount, so jitter is not the result. | |
| Dealing w reflective surface between loud speakers In my huge swimming pool room I have a set of Bose 901 speakers nestled unobtrusively amongst the potted plants. In between the widely spaced speakers is a very wide and high window unit, reflective as hell. But, the Bose speakers project their so... | |
| fuses - the $39 ones or the 85 cent ones Rodman99999..."acoustic jazz" you said. Exactly my point.At nearby Tanglewood (BSO summer music site) the Osawa hall is a relatively small venue designed specifically for chamber music and the like, and is completely acoustic. But the main "shed",... | |
| fuses - the $39 ones or the 85 cent ones Rodman99999...Most "live" music these days is electronicly amplified and delivered using loudspeakers. Even Opera, where the Diva may wear a mic. Classical chamber music and jazz may be the exception. So it is not unreasonable to prefer one's own ... | |
| Tone controls- to use or not? Atmasphere...For equalization and other kinds of sound processing digital technology, like the Behringer, is far superior to analog. Software can implement functions that are simply impossible with analog circuitry. In the DEQ2496 processing is do... |