herman
Responses from herman
| What is the advantage of a balanced interconnect? S earch the archives for BALANCED and you'll find more than you need. | |
| Hissy fit How low of a level? How close to the speaker do you have to be to hear it?ALL amplifiers produce some hiss/noise. If you have to move close to the speaker to hear it then I wouldn't worry about it. | |
| recommended power cords - Naim CD5/Flatcap2? Naim will tell you that the cord provided is the best to use as the final design of all their pieces is based on this cord. They claim to test all manner of cords, interconnects, and speaker cables and have yet to find any that perform better.I ha... | |
| Drums drums drums Im looking for more cds Not exacxtly what you described, but look into Ginger Baker's catalog. Although he generaly has backing musicians, most are very heavily drum dominated. I'm sorry I'm not at home to give you some titles of the more drum dominated albums. | |
| Un-equal length speaker cable advice?? If using expensive cables, use equal lengths because you'll take a beating trying to sell an un-equal pair. I'd go with equal lengths of the Au24, a very nice cable. | |
| Best Amp/Preamp Combo for around $6K? A watt is a watt but most amps are spec'd at continuous power output into 8 ohms. Just as important is the ability of the amp to deliver short bursts of power into lower impedance loads. Naim amps do this very well so they can play as loudly as so... | |
| CDP - running only one channel, can this damage? Sean, while I usually find your responses to be well reasoned, I find nothing in this one to support your position. Just what do you mean by " circuit degradation?" You state that it occurs, but offer no explanation of how it occurs or what form i... | |
| CDP - running only one channel, can this damage? Sean, I would like to hear your reasoning on this. What harm can possibly come from running a line level device unterminated? | |
| CDP - running only one channel, can this damage? That would be fine. | |
| Best Amp/Preamp Combo for around $6K? If you like your CD player, continue down the Naim path. You can get an excellent pre/power for $6000 with enough left to buy a Flatcap for your CD player. | |
| Help: my phono preamp is blowing away my linestage I agree that the rouge is holding you back. Since the IO is designed to drive a linestage directly, you can use a passive volume control like the Placette and get a huge improvement. I used mine this way and it was very nice. You could also send y... | |
| What Do You Get When You Spend Megabucks? "This is a hobby that requires one to spend a lot of money to realize one does not need to spend a lot of money.""A lot of money" is very relative. The MSRP of my system is a hell of a lot of money to me, and more than most people make in a year, ... | |
| Brentworth Type III It has been a few years, but I thought they were great sounding speakers. There wasn't any harshness in what I heard. Wait until they are broken in and go back.I wonder if the fact you hardly ever see used ones for sale means everyone that buys th... | |
| Outputs of 2 amps share common return - problem? I assume when you say return you mean the black speaker post?If the black post on both amps is connected to chassis ground then it won't hurt anything, but you could create a ground loop and some hum. You can use an ohm meter to check, just make s... | |
| PC as an analyzer You'll need a card and software. Do a google search and you'll companies like this. |