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| Class A 30 Watt Amps: Are they enough to drive my book shelfs? @kijanki OK. I see what you are saying. What it comes down to is that we have been interpreting the Benchmark statement differently. And both interpretations are reasonable, IMO, as long as each interpretation is properly understood and applied.Yo... | |
| Class A 30 Watt Amps: Are they enough to drive my book shelfs? @kijanki Hi Kijanki,Two speakers vs. one will add 3 db, but both speakers will have the same distance-related loss, so as I indicated the second speaker will not compensate for the distance-related loss. It will just make the sound 3 db louder at ... | |
| Class A 30 Watt Amps: Are they enough to drive my book shelfs? @kijanki Yes, I of course realize that there are two speakers. But for a listener at a centered position that is equidistant from the two speakers the calculation I provided, involving the difference in SPL at 10 feet vs. 1 meter, applies just as ... | |
| Synergistic Research Orange Fuses BTW, while I've never owned any of the stereo tube tuners made by the original H. H. Scott company, such as your 350A, I've owned three of the mono tuners of that era (310C, 310D, 311D) which provided a "multiplex output" jack, and so could be u... | |
| Synergistic Research Orange Fuses Al, do you think it might be wise to remove the fuse in my Scott tuner? If you mean "remove the fuse" in the sense of simply taking it out in order to put in a different one having similar ratings I don’t see any risk. Assuming, that is, that the ... | |
| Synergistic Research Orange Fuses Keep in mind that when the Scott 350A was designed, ca. 1961, AC line voltages were typically several volts lower than they usually are these days. So to whatever extent sonic differences between fuses may result from differences in resistance an... | |
| Class A 30 Watt Amps: Are they enough to drive my book shelfs? P.S. to my previous post, regarding the Benchmark statement that was quoted by Kijanki: Looking at it quantitatively, and choosing a listening distance of 10 feet as an example, and putting aside room effects for the moment, an SPL reduction of 6 ... | |
| Class A 30 Watt Amps: Are they enough to drive my book shelfs? Hi Kijanki, Al, yes but doesn't it apply to open space or anechoic chamber only? Yes, as I indicated the 6 db of falloff per doubling of distance applies if the effects of room reflections are put aside, i.e., if they are not included. I hear pr... | |
| Will a Pass Labs XA 30.5 be able to drive enough bass for Kef 201/2 speakers? As you may have seen already, I've provided an answer in your similar thread in the main part of the Forum.Regards,-- Al | |
| Class A 30 Watt Amps: Are they enough to drive my book shelfs? The first point I would make is that your speakers can’t handle more power than the XA30.5 can provide.John Atkinson’s measurements of your speakers indicate a sensitivity of 85.5 db/2.83 volts/1 meter, close to the published spec. Based on the im... | |
| coaxial/spdif to usb converter Such a converter would have to act as a USB "host," which likely means that it would have to either be a computer that could accept a S/PDIF input or a device designed to emulate such a computer. And as far as I am aware any such device would prob... | |
| Network Switches Jason_k2017 11-4-2019 You must try to understand that almost everything can introduce EM/RF noise. Every single device from the audio server, through every device my audio passes through on the internet and then my exchange to my router to my DAC ... | |
| Network Switches and ’ for the umpteenth time’ almargCan a digital switch, as the manufacturers and ’reviewers’ say it can, improve audio and video streams passing through it. ?If you don’t know just say so It depends on what is meant by "improve." It will not imp... | |
| Network Switches This is why I asked my original question, because I could not see how a switch working at level 2 or 3 can affect the encoded audio (or video, they also claim !) in level 7.Are you saying that they can or they can’t. It can NOT be both, and bear i... | |
| Network Switches Why, if the digital signal is not being degraded and is therefore reaching its destination intact (which is all that matters), do I need a ’special’ switch I believe the word "degraded" is being used in different senses by different people in this... |