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| klipsch cornwall iv upgraded crossovers Cleeds, It is not like using lossy MP3 videos,; it is MUCH worse. With any video you are hearing the gear in the video, the room, the recording gear, etc., before you even consider what the audience is using for playback. Even if the person sho... | |
| klipsch cornwall iv upgraded crossovers It is true that low cost parts do not necessarily mean bad sound or a substantial compromise in sound quality. At its price point, the Cornwall cannot be built without some cost cutting and savvy design means making the right choices on where to ... | |
| Considering selling my restored Garrard 301 Do these things have a 60 hz option for US. power or do they convert 60 hz AC to 50 hz AC? | |
| klipsch cornwall iv upgraded crossovers Modifications mean “tuning” the component to your taste and to work better with your other components. That means that any particular change may not be an improvement. Make sure that any change can be reversed. Damping horns is something easily... | |
| Considering selling my restored Garrard 301 Your table/tonearm combination is pretty nice. Assuming that you properly restored the table, it would be hard to beat with any modern alternative at the price you can expect to get for it. There are a lot of listeners who prefer the 301, or 401... | |
| She loves me she loves me not! I think the OP is talking about accidentally damaging or losing the grill covering if they are left off and stored somewhere like the garage. We can’t help with that. One has to listen to determine which sounds better, and if it is grill coverin... | |
| Invert ? Chesky has a test CD with sample jazz tracks from their catalogue. One of the teat track offers two pieces of music where a track is played in normal polarity and then in inverted polarity. With such side-by-side tracks you can see for yourself ... | |
| Invert ? When an instrument first emits a sound, the wave starts as a positive pressure that rises and falls followed by a negative pressure (lower than the initial static pressure before the sound wave arrived). Ideally, the speaker should follow the sam... | |
| Blown tweeters If you know that it is only the tweeters that have blown—meaning both channels sound fine except for the lack of top end—chances are good that the amp is fine and not the cause of the tweeters blowing. To be extra cautious, you could try very ... | |
| Can a tube amp be damaged by a speaker switch? We are warned about the practice, and it is good advice not to do it, but I have not heard of actual failure. | |
| Amp first approach to build a system. Anyone did it ? While I have not done this myself, I might be tempted given the amp I currently own (a clone/re-build of a Western Electric 133A amp). The other amps I have are also low-powered amps that require fairly high efficiency speakers. Really good amps... | |
| Can a tube amp be damaged by a speaker switch? Running a tube amp with no signal into the amp, and hence, no output, should not be a problem. But, it is too easy to accidentally have the amp amplifying without a load. One thing you could do is install a dummy resistor to act as the load when... | |
| Upgrading cd player I have no idea what would fit your personal preference, so I can only recommend what I like. I suggest you listen to Audio Note CDPs and models made by Lector. Both utilize tubes in their analogue sections of their DACs and sound very natural. | |
| How long does it take your tube amp to warm up? I don’t have any reliable way to determine how long it takes for the system’ to sound its best. It sounds good enough to enjoy within 20 seconds or so, and pretty much like it always sounds within s couple of minutes. | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please The assumption being made here is that the different metals used in the fuse affect the sound in that particular function as a fuse. But, have you considered the possibility that simply adding into the circuit these different metals might have th... |