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| System Upgrade Great! Thanks for letting us know the good news.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Audio Research VT100 MK1 and LS15 HELP!!! Assuming that the sparking is occurring most of the time (which would not be normal), rather than just briefly during the first minute after turn-on (which might be normal, as has been said), it is conceivable that both the sparking and the shut-d... | |
| can someone answer me this..... almarg speak English, my head started hurting, followed by flashbacks of science class.....lol. The point I was making in my previous post was simply that while the impedance situation in the connection between the preamp and the power amp is not... | |
| Building shielded IC's. Should both shield ends be terminated at the RCA, or only one? Hi Dan,I had almost finished composing the following response a little while ago, prior to your post just above. I then had to leave the computer for a while and when I returned I see that a response is no longer needed. But since I had almost com... | |
| Audio Research VT100 MK1 and LS15 HELP!!! One thing I would do is to remove the top covers of the two components and make sure that the tubes are securely inserted in their sockets. Especially in the case of the amp, given that all of its 16 tubes are mounted horizontally, which might ha... | |
| Master clock cables and SQ Two different master clock - clock cable - streamer systems. (Think SOtM master clock and SOtM sms200ultra Neo). All equipment is the same. All cables are from the same manufacturer, the same termination and the same length. All impendances from t... | |
| can someone answer me this..... Regarding impedance compatibility, the DNA-500 has a specified input impedance of only 10K, and the manual for the ET3 recommends a minimum load impedance of 20K. Based on some interior photos I found on the web it appears that both the ET3 and th... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? P.S. to my previous post: After looking further at the comments under the video I linked to it appears that the singing which accompanies the video is an "alternate take" that was recorded at some point by Cilla Black herself, although Sheridan S... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? For those who may like sentimental ballads, as I do in many cases: "You're My World," lyrics by the noted lyricist Carl Sigman: You're my world, you're every breath I take You're my world, every move I make Other eyes see the stars up in the ski... | |
| Can i plug Turntable into AR ref 5se phono input? The Gold Note PH-10 phono stage has received a good deal of favorable commentary here, although I have no experience with it. And it would provide you with LOMC capability as well as MM capability, should you eventually decide to go to an LOMC ca... | |
| Can i plug Turntable into AR ref 5se phono input? I agree with Cleeds. The Ref 5SE does not incorporate a phono stage, and its "phono" input differs from its other inputs in name only, and is intended to receive the line-level output of an external phono stage.Regards,-- Al | |
| Is a stereo amp, when bridged to mono, by definition differential? @audiobrian Bridging two channels makes it possible for twice as much voltage to be applied to the speaker as could be provided by one of those channels, **IF** the amp can supply the correspondingly greater amount of current, and **IF** it can do... | |
| Digital cables going in Preamp is this wrong? No, you're not missing anything. Digital cables can work fine when conducting analog audio signals. Their 75 ohm or 110 ohm "characteristic impedance" (for unbalanced and balanced cables, respectively) is not directly relevant at the frequencie... | |
| Impact of phase inversion by preamp The importance of maintaining "absolute phase" aka "polarity" in a system is controversial. One reason for that is that many recordings have been engineered with a large multitude of microphones, and have been subjected to extensive electronic pos... | |
| Master clock cables and SQ If there is a choice between all three impedances (clock generator output impedance, cable impedance, destination component input impedance) being 50 ohms or all three impedances being 75 ohms, I wouldn’t want to speculate as to which would be bet... |