highend64
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| Anyone have a Kill-A-Watt meter? Deanster, funny you should ask. I feel a regular light bulb consume more energy than my entire system turned on at idle.According to my meter, I'm consuming only 130 watts with my amp, cd player, TV, and sub turned on. Dean, what does your meter s... | |
| Guitar Solos I like most of Eddie Van Halen of Van Halen and Angus Young of AC/DC. It get me the chills when I heard it. | |
| Sting recording Justin, I played track 6 again and yes, I hear it the second one, about 1 or 2 seconds later. Track 2 can be easily heard. | |
| Sting recording Hey Mejames, did you get your Wadia? | |
| signal generators and... Kg, go to Partsexpress and look up the Neutrik MR1 and Goldline TS-2. In fact, the Goldline TS-2 has a frequency counter, sine wave generator, and a SPL meter all in one.Alfredo | |
| signal generators and... Kg, what do you have other than the rolls? Are you using a SPL meter? What kind of speakers are they? Model? Floorstanders or bookshelfs? These could be some of the factors to consider but judging by the dimensions it look like is your room. Placi... | |
| signal generators and... Kg, Are you using the Rolls MO2020 generator? I have one and it is a great tool. In general, all you need is a sine wave generator and SPL meter. If you really want to go at it, a frequency counter and the above mention would give you best results... | |
| Yamaha CDX-910U This unit was mfg in 1988. Yes, this unit sound excellent and it plays CD-R and CD-RW cds. Also this unit is HEAVY! | |
| What is everyone using for dedicated AC lines??? Glen, dosen't solid have more surface area than stranded wire? | |
| Does unequal speaker wire length matter? Cables should always be equal symmetry in length considering that you have the model and awg wire the same. Like Dbw1 said, timimg has nothing to do with length mismatch, its resistance. Resistance in a speaker cable subtle to voltage drop which i... | |
| Anybody used Nikko amps before? Thanks for the responses. I really miss my Nikko amp. At 45wpc, the amp sounded good with a pair of Titans. The only Nikko I have is there tuner, NT-890. | |
| What does Holographic mean to you? Holographic to me means mentally visual illusion that produce a 3-D scenery in front of you. Such an example is the the song" Swept Away" from the live recording of Yanni at the Acropolis. I almost start to cry from happiness when I heard the cong... | |
| What is everyone using for dedicated AC lines??? Glen, if 10/2 solid romex cable were run, wouldn't the cable withstand 50 amps max? According to my handbook, a 10 awg solid wire can hold 50 amps max while a stranded 10 awg can only hold 23 amps. Also, do you think is a good idea to use 10/3 20 ... | |
| testing cd player output impedance Richingoth, the load is actually before the source(just like speaker to amp). Jasljs, the specs tell you that the cd player will handle 10k load impedance or higher. If you are building a passive preamp, I would suggest a load impedance at about 2... | |
| The ideal listening room Victorhsalcedo, the ideal listening room would be similar to the golden ratio when building speakers. Think of the room as a huge speaker enclosure. A vaulted ceiling,IMO, is not a good idea unless the speaker placement are parallel with with the ... |