almarg
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| What is wrong here.. on Audiogon? Personally I wouldn’t characterize a relatively light-hearted thread about a matter that is essentially inconsequential, that involves individual preferences, and that has no right or wrong answer, as "anti-intellectual" and "dumb," or even as bei... | |
| Best way to Select Multiple Sources No, I haven’t had experience with the Decware ZSB. But over the years I’ve seen favorable comments by others about it and about various other Decware products, and from a technical standpoint I see no reason why it wouldn’t work well for you.Good ... | |
| Best way to Select Multiple Sources You might want to consider the Decware ZSB ($359 + options). http://www.decware.com/newsite/ZSB.html Or at a much lower price the DB Systems DBP-2JAU/5 ($110 + options) https://www.dbsystemsaudio.com/access.html https://www.dbsystemsaudio.com/ I’... | |
| Amps with meters ... From an aesthetic standpoint I prefer the clean, simple look of my meterless Pass XA25 to the look of the Pass models having meters. Also, I agree with the comments about meters being distracting. The touchscreen on my DEQX HDP-5 can be set to... | |
| REL subs with Rowland Amplifiers daveyf,You are correct my Signal cable has the red and yellow cables together and each cable has a Speakon end at the sub and a red/yellow connector and a black connector ( at the amp end). OK, thanks to you both for pointing that out. I see no pr... | |
| REL subs with Rowland Amplifiers Al do you have any idea as to why my balanced JR model 8T has no issues when connected in the manner that i suggested? ( which also was the way that REL had suggested to me to do the hook up when I first acquired my sub). First, it's noteworthy... | |
| REL subs with Rowland Amplifiers IOW, you have perhaps ONLY listened to the low level connection for all this time! Note the reference to "volume all the way down" in Richard’s statement that ... I had a RCA cable going from both RELs LFE (volume turned all the way down) to the ... | |
| Anti-Skate That isn’t surprising, except that I would have expected that you would have had to reduce anti-skating force, not increase it, to correct for cantilever deflection toward the center of the record. (Although you subsequently referred to deflection... | |
| Matching Pre-Amp to Amp Hello Nab2,I had seen your initial post, but I didn't respond as I have no particular knowledge of how various preamps tend to synergize with McIntosh amps.I would just suggest, though, that your questions would be seen by a vastly larger audien... | |
| Best $250 max phono Cart Like some other Audio-Technica moving magnet cartridges the VM540ML has a low recommended load capacitance range, in this case 100 to 200 pf. And the phono input of your amp has a higher than average input capacitance of 220 pf, while the phono ca... | |
| SUT's -Looking for one with some meat on the bones @three_easy_payments, thanks for your informative comment! I would add for the record that the moving magnet input of the OP’s phono stage provides 5 db less gain than is provided by your VTPH-2A, so he would need a SUT gain of 23 db to bring th... | |
| SUT's -Looking for one with some meat on the bones The one technical issue I see in pairing the Allnic 1201 with the Hana SL is a relatively minor one, I believe, and one that I suspect is probably not a significant contributor to the specific sonic issues you have described. But it further reinfo... | |
| SUT's -Looking for one with some meat on the bones To repeat an earlier question, what phono stage are you using? And are you presently using a SUT; and if so what model is it, and how long is the cable between it and the phono stage? (I ask the latter question because capacitance on the outpu... | |
| Classical, Rock, Jazz etc. are your tastes evolving with time? Between my pre-teen years and my early to mid-20s my listening was about 80% pop & rock and about 20% classical. During my mid-20s it transitioned to about 90% classical and 10% pop/rock/miscellaneous, and has remained pretty much the same ... | |
| Need Help! My Class A Amp Is Running Very Hot Imhififan makes a good point about the possibility that the amp is a 100 volt model being operated with 120 volts. The voltage the amp is designed to operate with should be indicated on the rear panel.Regarding the Kill-A-Watt meter, I have no exp... |