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| Home Spindle Lube Test Inpep: I just went back and re-read your explanation. It makes perfect sense to me and i have nothing to argue with you about on this. In fact, i would even go further in saying that one can use too heavy of a viscosity lubricant, which would resu... | |
| "High Current" Morbius: Those are typical factory specs, nothing like what we are discussing here. On top of that, the voltage swing on that specific Krell is pretty low at their rated 138 v peak to peak. My Perreaux PMF-3150, which is also rated at 300 wpc @ 8 ... | |
| Back into vinyl - part 1 I don't doubt that moving the power supply away from the TT is a good thing. I would also think that placing large filter caps inside of the TT itself would provide the instantaneous demands that the motor might need. You get less motor vibration ... | |
| amp for infiinity kappa 9 I used a completely factory refurbished Bryston 4B on some speakers that are also low impedance and very insensitive. Not only did it not sound good, it was constantly going into clipping. I would highly recommend that you NOT use one of these amp... | |
| Who will survive? One last table til I die. I still haven't had a chance to read the articles, but i just want to ask you folks one question. That is, where do you think the technology came from in order to start mass producing solid state devices? I'll give you a hint. They probably didn't... | |
| "High Current" The Sunfire amps can do this with enough AC and the right internal fusing. I've got test results from an old magazine review on one of the original Sunfire's that verifies this. I'm not saying that i consider the Sunfire's to be the "best built" (... | |
| Back into vinyl - part 1 In the RF industry, we super-impose RF onto DC all the time. The use of an unshielded wire and / or a cable that uses a highly inductive geometry in this situation is something that i would take issue with. At the same time though, you don't want ... | |
| "High Current" All of this comes back to how the manufacturer wants to market the product and how the marketing department thinks will be the most effective manner at achieving those goals. Given that i've seen amps rated at 200 wpc @ 8 ohms clip at 280 wpc, the... | |
| amp for infiinity kappa 9 I should have mentioned that this speaker stays below 3 ohms from 60 Hz and below. Given that you already need high levels of power to control a large woofer as it is, compounding that demand with a very low impedance at that point is pretty rough... | |
| amp for infiinity kappa 9 Given that this speaker dips to .8 of an ohm at appr 33 Hz and .9 of an ohm at appr 7.2 KHz, you need a MASSIVELY powerful amp that can deal with huge current demands at both ends of the audio spectrum simultaneously. With that in mind, i would su... | |
| Van Alstine Longhorn Cartridge? The first modified Grado that i'm aware of was made by Bill Seneca and sold under the name of "Promethean" for $135. This was the cheapest Grado available at the time and Bill performed several different mods to improve it. After modifications, it... | |
| "High Current" Metralla: The audio world does not revolve around Stereophile alone in terms of equipment reviews. How many other reviews / reviewers do this? That was the point that i was trying to make. Having said that, i'm glad that Stereophile does perform s... | |
| Shure V15VxMR to be discontinued Norm: You can use a simple microscope for viewing your own stylus. After all, if you can look at paramecium using one of these things, you can surely see a small hunk of diamond with one. As far as record cleaning goes, i'm talking about a REAL "d... | |
| Amp is stuck "on"-rocker switch is not engaging Was the $200 just for the switch or was it for the switch and labour? From your post, it sounds like it was for the switch itself and you are doing the labour. If such is the case, i'm still in the wrong business : ) Sean> | |
| "High Current" Jeffreybehr: As discussed in another relatively recent thread, power ratings can be manipulated by the manufacturer. Even if they are rated to "double down", most amps DO NOT really do this, the ratings are just "fudged" to look good to the consum... |