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| Tekton or Klipsch Even now with the Kef’s i rarely go past 9 o’clock position. Sometimes maybe 10 when I’m listening to vinyl.That’s definitely a problem, if you want to continue to use the Brio-r with one of the high sensitivity speakers that have been discussed. ... | |
| Tekton or Klipsch A point to consider in going from the LS50 to one of the high sensitivity speakers that have been discussed is that if you are using a digital source (as opposed to or in addition to LPs), the somewhat highish gain of your integrated amp (the gain... | |
| Stumped by preamp-amp issues Its also odd, to me, that two very different products have the same LED arrangement and trigger on the same phenomenon..... Odd indeed. But if a high amplitude subsonic oscillation is coursing through both components, per the phenomenon described... | |
| Stumped by preamp-amp issues @cflayton,This brings to mind an issue that was discussed in the following thread, in which someone was seeking an explanation as to why changing the input impedance of his amp from 100K to 47K cured a problem in which the amp’s bias would fluctua... | |
| Tone, Tone, Tone ! What are YOUR priorities in a speaker ...? Hi Prof,In my case I agree wholeheartedly that tonality and timbre are priority number one when it comes to selecting a speaker. What can be confounding, though, is that perceived tonality and timbre are... | |
| Balanced Tube Preamp Recommendations for $2000 The Calypso’s balanced output impedance (measured by Stereophile to be 112 ohms at 1 kHz and above but a very high 3900 ohms at 20 Hz) is marginal at best with respect to the balanced input impedance of the XA30.5 (spec’d at 30K and measured as 29... | |
| Stumped by preamp-amp issues I took a look at the manual for the amp, which I found at hifiengine.com. I see that when its "normal" or "inverted" RCA inputs are used RCA shorting plugs should be inserted into the other of those inputs, but RCA shorting plugs should NOT be ins... | |
| Sub wiring help, high level speaker terminal to RCA line level Sub inputs One other thing that I was thinking about is the effect on the audio signal after being amplified multiple times over if using the Speaker level outputs. So the pre-amp is slightly amplifying the signal, which is then fed to a power amp that is ag... | |
| Sub wiring help, high level speaker terminal to RCA line level Sub inputs LC-1 cables plus a pair of Audioquest splitters would be a much safer bet IMO than MSA-1 cables in a y-configuration, and the greater the length of the cables the more true that would be.While there have been various reports and/or claims here to ... | |
| Microphone for Youtube Recording Depends on how much you want to spend. You might want to consider a digital recorder having built-in mics like this one, which costs $150: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1453030-REG/tascam_dr_07x_stereo_handheld_digital_audio.html I would ... | |
| Anyone have this turntable issue? In addition to the experiment Jim suggested, did you try this experiment I suggested earlier:... if you are still using the Plinius Odeon amplifier you mentioned in a post a few months ago you might try changing the setting of its ground-lift swit... | |
| Anyone have this turntable issue? @jea48 Hi Jim,Not a dumb question at all about seeing if the pop occurs when a different input is selected. That would definitely be of interest, as would the answers to my questions one of which was about whether the pop disappears if the SP3 is... | |
| Anyone have this turntable issue? Jim (Jea48), thanks for providing the links. Not sure if you noticed that the OP is using a step-up transformer between the turntable and the dual chassis Sutherland phono stage, with the phono stage presumably being used in moving magnet mode. ... | |
| Anyone have this turntable issue? Does the pop still occur if the mute function of the SP3 is engaged prior to and at the time the stylus hits the record?Also, by any chance do any of the components in the system, such as a powered subwoofer, have a signal-sensitive auto-standby f... | |
| Bridging an amplifier I’m not familiar with the internal design of the amps that have been mentioned, but I would expect that one significant difference between a bridgeable stereo amp and an amp that is internally bridged and is mono only is that in the former case tw... |