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| Homemade sound panels Silicone around the edges of the pegboard or it might vibrate or, better yet, avoid it. The pegboard is the same as the wall that you're trying to get away from. If the pegboard were in front and not touching anything, that would be a membrane but... | |
| Homemade sound panels What kind of panels are you talking about? I've made some membrane panels and my only regret is that I didn't make them bigger. 6X3 instead of 4X2 would have doubled the material cost but that's insignificant to the labour and result. Membrane pan... | |
| power line conditioners... An iso tranny also presents an inductive and capacitive load, when shielded, which should sound familiar with passive XO's. They can eliminate DC offset but aren't fond of it and can hum in protest.The general rule of sizing, in our case, is that ... | |
| Is it good to drive the magnepan 3.6? I've got a similar setup with bridged Plinius (which run hot normally) for planar magnetics. No problem. Maggies are nearly a purely resistive load across the bandwidth. | |
| How to fix a lack of bass Null We haven't actually established it's a null yet. Download some test tones in the 50 Hz area you mentioned, copy it to a CD, not mp3. Play that and walk around the room. If the null is as big as you think, you should notice variations in volume, wi... | |
| Challenging Speaker Situation An unusual selection might be the pro-type Toa HX-5's with a sub. Probably the best speakers I've heard in a public setup. Each speaker is actually 4 hinged together and have versatile mounting options.What's your budget? | |
| shipping heavy amps - Canada to US? I think Canada Post has a limit of 30kg. UPS ground does not include brokerage fees but UPS air does. UPS also has a "dimensional weight" that can double the cost. | |
| Poll - Active vs. Passive preamp You should direct your questions to John Chapman on the AudioCircle/BentAudio forum or look at the older DIYAudio site. He will probably say that a buffer isn't necessary for most systems.If you could hear my system with a passive, there wouldn't ... | |
| recapping crossovers....do or don't? You could just use small bypass caps. | |
| Preamplifier power supply Must have been thinking about this interview.http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/222/ | |
| Preamplifier power supply There is some talk about this subject on the PSAudio site that's fairly amusing.Shadorne: My preconceptions were the same as yours. Techies have a hard time with that one. | |
| Your combination:AC isolation/condition devices Any dual core, 480/240-240/120 transformer can be wired (creatively) for balanced AC output because the secondarys are out of phase. Pretty much everything over 1KVA is dual core. If you wire 240V to the 480 primarys(H1-H4), you get +/-60V (refere... | |
| Your combination:AC isolation/condition devices Before you start looking that up, common mode refers from line or neutral to ground and "differential" or transverse or normal mode refers to noise between line and neutral. Common mode is the big culprit. A shielded transformer is also a capaciti... | |
| List : Components with high dynamics No names, but feeding kilowatts to 90+ dB line sources seems pretty dynamic, when needed. | |
| Anyone ever tried 2x100Watt Bi-Amp Vs 200 Watt Done both bridging (Plinius SA100's) and passive biamping. In the latter, I used Monarchy SE100's above 90 Hz and an old Mission 777 (100W) for bass, along with a custom attenuator to accommodate gain differences. This setup took advantage of both... |