eldartford
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| Balanced vs. unbalanced By the way, the noise immunity of balanced lines can be achieved using active circuitry only in the receiving end of the connection. The HI wire of the balanced connection carries the single-ended signal. The LO wire is simply connected to the sin... | |
| 6L6 or variant Kt-88....I just looked at those amps. They get to 20 watts, instead of the usual 10 watts, by using four 6V6 output tubes. I am sure that performance is limited by the small audio output transformer. A substitute would not fit on the chassis unles... | |
| EQ before Preamp? Rodman99999 and Joeylawn36111...Just for accuracy...My work was on missile guidance systems (which just happened to be launched from subs) and my audio electronics experience goes back to about 1955. I didn't make audio my profession because my fa... | |
| Tubes to solid state for amplifier path... Go digital. | |
| Balanced vs. unbalanced The additional circuitry is a unity gain stage, which inverts the signal. Unity gain stages are easy to design and build with virtually no distortion or noise, so I wouldn't worry about that. The balanced interface is much more immune to noise pic... | |
| EQ before Preamp? Rodman99999...There are bubbles and there are bubbles. Some say rhodium anything is to be avoided, and black gate capacitors aren't anything special. Burr-Brown has no monopoly on good A/D and D/A converters. But, you are entitled to your personal... | |
| EQ before Preamp? Mordante...I am not familiar with the entire line of Behringer equipment, but the DEQ 2496 is built as well as any audiophile gear, and sounds excellent. Any flaws are more than compensated by its ability to correct room effects.Other pro sound eq... | |
| Difference between today and yesterday. Rodman99999...Needle, ball, and airspeed, and the door open. What avionics? | |
| Difference between today and yesterday. Douglas_schroeder...Old volin vs new violin, Apple to apple. Old speaker to new speaker. Orange to orange. Sometimes all the technology is without benefit (except for marketing). I would take a KLH 9 electrostatic speaker over anything made today,... | |
| Difference between today and yesterday. Rodman99999...You enjoy your old Harley, although a new Honda is probably more practical as a means of travel. I am a pilot. I enjoy flying a Piper J3 Cub, although a new Cirus is more practical as a means of travel. Each has its place. | |
| Difference between today and yesterday. Douglas_schroeder...How so? | |
| Auto-calibration I have found that precise equalization of volume from front and surround speakers using the test signal usually included in multichannel equipment is a waste of time. Relative volume on a multichannel disc is at the discretion of the mix engineer,... | |
| 6L6 or variant The audiophile interest in 6V6 tubes is interesting. Back when I first became interested in audio amps the 6V6 tube was what you got in Stromberg-Carlson console gramaphones, and similar mass market audio equipment. 6V6 tubes were everywhere excep... | |
| Difference between today and yesterday. And modern violins are much better than those old Stradivarius fiddles. | |
| Difference between today and yesterday. It depends on the music. For "big" music, symphonies, organ, loud rock, etc. the old JBL, Altec, and the like with 15" woofers are best. But you can't play such speakers at realistic volume in an apartment, and the speakers probably wouldn't fit a... |