almarg
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| Manufacturers pushing their products and agenda in the forums. Noble100 4-17-2019I just wanted to add that I think we're lucky to have industry insiders, like almarg and others, post on various subjects here on Audiogon. Thanks very much for the nice words, Tim. For the record, though, I do not now nor h... | |
| Manufacturers pushing their products and agenda in the forums. From the OP: Manufacturers now post into the forums dogmatically espousing their myopic view of the hobby, shamelessly pimping their own products and view of the audio world and, even more disturbingly, running down opposing brands. IMHO, it may b... | |
| What’s the Right Power Amp Ratio For Bi-Amping? Thanks, Pauleladue. That's an excellent data point, which most of us wouldn't be able to provide and which is consistent with what I said.Regards,-- Al | |
| What’s the Right Power Amp Ratio For Bi-Amping? The question boils down to this: if you had the ability to measure power consumption of white noise (equal amplitude across the audible spectrum, not necessarily 20Hz to 20kHz, if you could do it for 50Hz to 10kHz that would be a sufficient demons... | |
| What’s the Right Power Amp Ratio For Bi-Amping? Racamuti makes a good point. If identical amps are used a vertical configuration (one amp per speaker, one channel powering the lows and the other channel powering the highs) is considered to be preferable to a horizontal configuration (one amp fo... | |
| What’s the Right Power Amp Ratio For Bi-Amping? A rule of thumb I’ve seen stated, which seems to me to make sense as a very rough approximation, is that music tends to require similar amounts of power at frequencies above and below 350 Hz. That should be considered in the context of the crossov... | |
| Getting new Preamp P.S: You’ll also need to have some means of matching the gains of the two amps, of course, if their gains don’t happen to be identical. And achieving a proper gain match will probably be affected by whether you drive the amps balanced or unbalance... | |
| Getting new Preamp Erik and George are of course correct that impedance compatibility needs to be carefully considered in this situation, given that preamp-to-power amp impedance incompatibilities tend to arise most often when tube-based preamps are used in conjunct... | |
| Song (or music) you want played at your funeral. I generally try not to think about such things, but for me a leading candidate would be "The End," as recorded by Earl Grant in 1958, with the repeat of the second verse omitted due to his poor singing (IMO) near the end of the recording. Coincide... | |
| What is the working principle of the Loudspeaker? Good catch by Simao.If ".com" is appended to the OP's screen-name the resulting URL is that of a speaker driver manufacturer in China. Perhaps the OP is seeking to subtly publicize his company, or to elevate its ranking in search engine results.R... | |
| Reel to reel @Uberwaltz, if you choose to pursue Ralph’s good suggestion, you can find the service manual for your deck at hifiengine.com if you register there, or if you are already registered there. It is linked to on this page:https://www.hifiengine.com/man... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? I heard the following on SiriusXM the other day. Touching lyrics, and sang very nicely IMO except for the part near the end when his singing verges on yelling. At the end of a rainbow, You´ll find a pot of gold. At the end of a story, You´ll find ... | |
| Are XLR Shorting Straps the same as shorting plugs? I took a look at the manual for the Model 1, which I found at hifiengine.com. As I interpret the information provided on page 5 of the six page manual it appears that XLR shorting plugs are only necessary if the amp is being used in bridged mono m... | |
| Basic cable question ... do speaker cables and interconnects need to be the same brand? To add to the previous responses, with which I agree, the idea that the cables in a system should all be of the same make is often referred to as "loom theory." While a goodly numb... | |
| Is there an affordable long run XLR preamp to amp cable out there? @Celander, re the "balanced standard," aka AES File 48, the following is from a post dated 3-22-2013 that Ralph provided in this thread. Also see my follow-up question later in that thread, and Ralph's response. A good reason to go balanced is th... |