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May 11, 2015	What Determines The Amount Of "Current" In An Amp? The power supply and output transistors are the primary deteminants of ability to pass current. The second amp in the example above is able to pass more current, all things being equal.I don't look for amps that can drive those speakers and never ...
May 10, 2015	The most helpful Forum Discussion Topics??? Threads about music and musical genres that I might've missed.
May 09, 2015	Speaker Switch That Protects Tube Amplifier Your friend is the EE!
May 09, 2015	Speaker Switch That Protects Tube Amplifier You are more than safe with a 100W resistor. Since you usually, probably, only play music at a few watts you may very well be able to use a resistor of much lower rated wattage.
May 08, 2015	Speaker Switch That Protects Tube Amplifier It's actually very simple, just have a load resistor, of sufficient wattage, subbed for the speakers when you flip the switch. That way the amps can always see a load when they are not attched to the speakers and there is no chance for accidents h...
May 05, 2015	Tell us your worst audio dealer or mfr. experience. Let's talk Audible Illusions and Art Ferris. I called with a bad channel and he said to send my Modulus in. I did so. Three months later he could not find my preamp. He finally figured out that it was at the home of one of his associates, also nam...
May 04, 2015	Using solid copper Door Bell wire as speaker wire. It makes sense to use inexpensive wire before the rest of your system is sorted. I would take the money saved and spend it on more ambitious sources; the current ones are not up to the rest of system which seems unbalanced. Good luck whatever the ...
Apr 24, 2015	The Best & Rarest of all Stereo Gear A. Stewart Hegeman was one of the geniuses of audio design. The Citation 2 was arguably the best amp made for several decades.
Apr 23, 2015	Van Morrison "Duets" The one that cracked me up was "Pay The Devil" his foray into American country music of a few years back. To say that he clearly did not understand the idiom is not enough; at times it seemed that he did not even understand the words. Makes one ge...
Apr 23, 2015	What's with the buyers these days?? Internet selling is not for everyone. Most dealers accept trade ins and many will buy gear outright. No messy interactions with the great unwashed. No hassle. Another alternative is to drop the stuff off at Goodwill or donate it to a music program...
Apr 19, 2015	Tubed Phono Preamp Oops, thanks Al. At least one of us is paying attention!
Apr 19, 2015	Tubed Phono Preamp The input impedance of the MF A5 is 220k ohms so any phono preamp will work with it.You currently do not have a tube phono, but a hybrid tube/transistor phono pre. If you are partial to that topology the Chinook is a nice choice. If you are lookin...
Apr 19, 2015	which $1k used floorstanders for 35wpc tubes? Klipsch Cornwall.
Apr 15, 2015	Why so underwhelmed by Revel F208 audition??? Kudos to Al for hitting one out of the park. I believe that Hitachi was the first to implement class G audio products in the late 1970s and subsequently abandoned the idea. As Rodney Dangerfield said to Sally Kellerman in Back To School, "Call me ...
Apr 10, 2015	Multiple "sales" of EAR 324? It's interesting that most of these fraudsters just don't seem too bright and generally are easy to spot. But there must be a fair amount of buyers that are not too circumspect either or the fraudsters would simply give up.I imagine if someone rea...