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| REL subs with Rowland Amplifiers Yes, I would think that to be highly likely. Given what Jeff has told you, given that REL's recommendation has up until recently been to do that, and given my technical understanding of the situation.Best regards,-- Al | |
| REL subs with Rowland Amplifiers As a point of information, for a great many years prior to the introduction of many of their current models, REL manuals recommended that when connecting to amplifiers whose outputs are balanced or bridged that the black wire be connected to a cha... | |
| RCA to XLR - How bad are the current crop of adapters ? Hi MrD,FWIW, if it were me I would perform the assessment of the amps using either the Neutrik adapter Jtcf suggested, or a similarly priced adapter offered by B&H Photo Video under their pro-oriented house brand "Comprehensive." Consistent wi... | |
| REL subs with Rowland Amplifiers PM answered.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Phono Cart Impedance Question ... if I wanted to perhaps try just a couple of the SLN tubes to see if they start to lower noise where would be the best place to start? As follows:1st gain stage (pair)2nd gain stage (pair)output stage (single) While I'm not familiar with th... | |
| REL subs with Rowland Amplifiers For sake of comparison, if the high-level connection is a 100 for sound, what is the low-level connection, 80, 90, 95? Your guess is as good as mine on that question, Richard. As I’m sure you’ve seen, REL recommends using speaker-level connection... | |
| REL subs with Rowland Amplifiers Hi Richard,I suspect the reason floating the ground wire doesn’t work in this case is that the inputs of your amp are transformer coupled, so a ground path is not established between the sub and the amp via the preamp, since the preamp’s ground is... | |
| Phono Cart Impedance Question how much gain do you have on your line stage? My line stage/preamp is a DEQX HDP-5, which provides almost no gain. Actually less than 1 db with the internal jumper settings I use, and it would even provide negative gain if those jumpers were set ... | |
| Phono Cart Impedance Question @three_easy_payments,I have a Herron VTPH-2 (not the -A version), in the low gain configuration that is most commonly used (64 db gain for LOMCs). I use it with a 0.5 mv cartridge, an Audio Technica AT-ART9. I find it to be incredibly quiet.0.5 mv... | |
| Ethernet Cable or Not? @sleepwalker65, you were right the first time re "advise" and "advice." My perception over the years, btw, has been that on a percentage basis what might possibly be the most common linguistic error made in posts here is substitution of "advise... | |
| Please help identify this old tube gear After doing a little research it looks like it may indeed be from a Compton organ, specifically the Melotone. Here is what may be the service manual for it, which includes schematics from which your tech may be able to determine how to modify it ... | |
| Ethernet Cable or Not? Based on past discussions I’ve seen involving similar questions I would expect that a significant majority of the responses you will receive will favor using an ethernet cable. And doing so is certainly likely to provide fine results, although not... | |
| CD distortion through preamp Puzzling problem, especially given that while it does sound like the preamp is responsible, whether or not the issue appears depends on whether a CD player (used as a transport) or a computer is driving the DAC.One thing I would try as an experime... | |
| Favorite cover? A bit off the beaten path, but one of my all-time favorite rock albums is "Projections" by The Blues Project, ca. 1967. While many of the songs on the album were written by members of the group (especially Al Kooper and Steve Katz, who later were... | |
| Would switching amps make a big difference? Most speakers are designed to approach a flat voltage response, not power, and amps to be a voltage source. Agreed, but of course "most" doesn't mean "all." It just means a majority. If the source impedance of the amp is rather high (tubes) t... |