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| Hales T5's Vifa's $ ohm or 6 ohm? Impedance ratings are "nominal" at best and vary with frequency. You really have to look at the impedance curve and see how various drivers compare. On top of that, you have to look at the frequency response, sensitivity, dispersion and whether or... | |
| Difference betweeen Aragon 4004 Mark I and Mark II If the emitter resistors are "flaming", the amp has a LOT more problems to worry about than just a few smoked resistors. That's because those resistors will only "flame" when the transistors are damaged / on their last leg. As such, you can replac... | |
| High End Myth Glossary. Numbers don't lie but you have to know how to interpret them. That specific analogy simply means that the Yamaha produces lower THD, it doesn't tell us anything about how the unit will sound or how those figures were derived. You have to look at t... | |
| I need help with my room Nate, i'll start off by saying that you are a brave individual. You've laid your heart, soul, system and room along with all of its' non-linearities out for all to see and criticize. Kudo's to you for having the guts to do that. Having said that, ... | |
| Furthest range of WGBH FM Boston --Maine, NH, ? While i'm not familiar with the power output of the station, the locations that you mention, the terrain between the station and the towns that you mention, etc... investing in a "killer" FM antenna system ( like stacked Yagi's or Log Periodic* an... | |
| New Advent woofers? I've got AR woofers that have square magnets and some that have round magnets. I've never run them on test equipment to compare them, but i'm sure that there are differences in them and not just because of the magnet shape. Technically speaking, o... | |
| Hales T5's Vifa's $ ohm or 6 ohm? Uh-Oh. Was someone listening TOO loud or are you just not happy with the response of the tweeter after the mods that you've done? I hope it was the latter and not the former.Other than that, Madisound or Meniscus would probably be able to help you... | |
| Crossover mods and speaker efficiancy? Parts should be as close as possible so that you don't have to use jumper wires between them. You also don't want to keep the factory legs on the caps / resistors real long. That is, point to point from one part to another is ideal, so long as the... | |
| Am I damaging my Preamp? Believe me, typical phenolic PC boards don't burn all that easily. You would have to have a pretty sizable amount of sustained heat in order to do something like that. Even if that were to happen ANY circuit board can be repaired. That is, unless ... | |
| Please help me get my missing frequencies It looks like the "normal" mode sends the bass for all the speakers that you have set to "small" mode to the subwoofer. If you are running all the speakers in "large" mode, the only sounds that the sub would be fed would be the LFE channel. At lea... | |
| New Advent woofers? Ken Kantor of AR & NHT fame has done some testing of re-foamed AR 12's using the Simply Speaker re-foam kits. The foam that they use has to be quite different than the OEM foam that AR used. The parameters of operation all shifted quite notice... | |
| Crossover mods and speaker efficiancy? In many cases, one need not even change components in a crossover to achieve better performance. That is, by laying out the existing parts in a more precise manner, it is very possible to lower noise, distortion, crosstalk between circuits, improv... | |
| High End Myth Glossary. Marakanetz: That last post of yours really stunk : ) Sean> | |
| Subwoofer buzz Sounds like you've got a ground loop. This means that you've either added a component to the system that you didn't have before, have changed how your system / sub is being powered via the AC or connected your system to some type of cable or satel... | |
| Am I damaging my Preamp? Simply adjust the output levels on the variable devices so that they provide you with the same listening level as the fixed DVD player does. If the variables have to be turned all the way up, that's fine. That just means that the variables are put... |