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| Room Correction Required @mitchellcp Your description of the problem is a classic example of how standing waves cancel and reinforce bass in a room, depending on frequency. You can fix the peaks with room correction but not the dips!!! The reason you can't fix the dips ... | |
| 300b lovers Does aluminum provides any shielding? I will use an aluminum chassis. @alexberger Yes, but only at radio frequencies. No shielding at audio frequencies, and for that reason steel is likely a better choice if you're running single-ended. We use... | |
| When to choice XLR over RCA ICs. ^ +1 | |
| Experiences With Costly Balanced XLR Interconnects Above $3,000 I knew Robert Fulton back in the late 1970s. He pretty much founded the entire high end audio cable industry. Back then, people thought he was nuts, with his Fulton Gold 8ga speaker cable and his Fulton interconnects. We (my audiophile friends and... | |
| When to choice XLR over RCA ICs. There is no real difference at one meter. This statement is incorrect. Balanced operation can be beneficial even if the connection is only 6", since rejection of noise impinged in the cable is not a function of length. If operating balanced, t... | |
| Found Great Seller - Plinth for Technics 1200 GAE That’s a base not a plinth. The plinth is the bit that supports both the platter and tonearm. In the 1200G, the plinth is built of several components such that it is anti-vibration, to reduce colorations. It does look nice. | |
| What say you binding posts or direct wire? this person also eliminated the selector knob on his linestage so that changing source components meant switching RCA cables (at least that wasn't hardwired). Thus putting the plating on his connectors at risk. If RCAs and gold-clad, they won't... | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? Music is processed by the limbic system of the brain. But if there is something wrong (like distortion) the processing is unconsciously moved to the cerebral cortex. There is a tipping point for this. When this occurs the presentation loses some o... | |
| 300b lovers 2. I use interstage transformers and separate PS for driver and input tubes. As a result, I have two separate GNDs: 1st - for output circuit and PS 2nd - for input/driver circuit and PS. Should I connect both these GND together to the amplifier c... | |
| Anyone Here Ever Purchased A Tube Tester? @mitch4t Tube testers will not find a sputtering tube. The best way to find it is to swap it with the other channel if that is possible, if not, with another tube of the same type elsewhere in your system. It can also be a corroded tube socket a... | |
| XLR recomendation @djohn I use the Mogami 2549. | |
| Tubes, tone, and old age. And on a related note, what measurements - if there are any - show the difference in sound between SS and tubes? Could one see this on a frequency chart? Yes. Look at distortion vs frequency- if it begins rising much below about 10KHz you will... | |
| Experiences With Costly Balanced XLR Interconnects Above $3,000 I am curious to know why won’t manufacturers follow the AES48 standard. Do you think Audio Research, Mark Levinson, Cary Audio, Krell, and most of BAT all (Balanced Audio technology) don’t follow this standard? For the kind of money these guys ch... | |
| Experiences With Costly Balanced XLR Interconnects Above $3,000 Can somebody here explain to me why $3,000 XLR connectors supposedly have a better CMRR than say $100 XLR connectors? @pwerahera They won't. CMRR is a function of the electronics, not the cable. The goal of the balanced line system is to elimi... | |
| 300b lovers Are there any tubes that, in a PP IT loaded design, would be reasonably linear and provide enough drive for a single 300B without a cathode follower stage? @jaytor Sure! We are assuming that you plan to use a high efficiency speaker so you’re ... |