almarg
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| AMP or Preamp With respect to amplification Audio Research (tubes) and Pass (solid state) both seem to be popular pairings with Wilson speakers.An interesting post in this thread:Jmwick 12-30-2017 I have the Sasha 2 powered by the ARC Reference 75 SE which is ... | |
| REL T5i Subwoofer Hum issue @rankaudioMore details would probably be helpful. What is the make and model of the amplifier and the main speakers? And what is the negative wire from the sub connected to?Regards,-- Al | |
| AC Dedicated Line Exceeding the recommended wire gauge for a specific amperage breaker is just plain dangerous. To be clear, I assume you are saying that what is dangerous is using a wire gauge number that is higher than the gauge number that is normally specified... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? There is a very informative writeup on "MacArthur Park" on Wikipedia. The lyrics largely reflect some of Jimmy Webb's real life experiences.The song is certainly one of the most unique popular recordings of the rock era, and like CD318 I consid... | |
| A little History lesson on, "High- End" cables: To add to DrBarney1’s post (and I agree with his math), it is possible that in some circumstances skin effect in a speaker cable can actually be beneficial. While it will have negligible effects at audio frequencies, as he indicated, it seems conc... | |
| Please Help Me!! I'm thinking that the integrated amplifier the OP settled on may have been the one that was produced by Lirpa Labs. An indication of that may be the reference in his post to "April."Although come to think of it, I believe that estimable firm un... | |
| Great sounding/recorded albums Or "big" sounding symphonic albums that don't sound too thin with good bottom end.Stuff that I can show off my system to friends and they go "wow". If you are equipped to play CDs, try to find the recording of Dvorak's "New World" symphony (Sym... | |
| Swapped long wall to short wall and now I am having some big issues ... by your description it seems that the speakers are already "bright’ in the near field. No, I didn’t intend to indicate that. I think of the brightness region as being in the area of roughly 4 to 8 kHz or thereabouts. According to my measureme... | |
| Swapped long wall to short wall and now I am having some big issues the switchbox has no resistorsthose amps are not sensitive to no load condition Wow, that was quick!Given that the amps have output transformers I’m not sure how or why they would not be sensitive to the no load condition (when processing a signal... | |
| Swapped long wall to short wall and now I am having some big issues I could ask Richard on the switch box Alternatively, if you have a multimeter, with the switchbox disconnected from the speakers and the amps you could measure the resistance between each + input terminal of the switchbox and the corresponding -... | |
| Swapped long wall to short wall and now I am having some big issues Thanks for the additional info, Tom & Alan.Tom, I see that you have two preamps and two pairs of tube-based monoblock amps in the system, with a custom made high quality switchbox to select which amp outputs are used to drive the speakers. Two... | |
| Swapped long wall to short wall and now I am having some big issues ... that speaker which has one design flaw, it has two tweeters which are too far apart to reproduce the highest frequencies in balance with the rest of the speaker. Mijostyn, as I mentioned in my previous post I have the same speakers as the OP.... | |
| Swapped long wall to short wall and now I am having some big issues @audiotombHi Tom,Sorry to hear you are having this very frustrating experience. We have the same speakers (Daedalus Ulysses), as you may recall. My room is 13 x 22 x 8. I have the speakers set up on the short wall, about 4 feet out from the front ... | |
| AC Dedicated Line Wouldn’t it be riskier to use a larger breaker on a circuit than necessary? If you only draw 5 amps a 30 amp circuit may never trip. That was my understanding. Electricians, here, is that right? @jbhiller I’m an EE rather than an electrician, but... | |
| AC Dedicated Line I would just add to the foregoing comments that using a single neutral run for the three dedicated lines, all of which would presumably be on a single phase in your country, would seem likely to negate whatever benefit having multiple dedicated li... |