macbrett
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| Speaker wire impedance? Speaker impedance? The reason a low impedance cable is "good" is that it will have less effect on the sound. The amp will mainly "see" the speaker's actual impedance. Energy will not be reactivly stored or dissipated in the cable itself. The reason low impedance s... | |
| Shorting plugs @bob540 Wait — I thought shorts in electrical or audio cables or equipment is bad?! But they were the solution? You don't want to short out a low impedance voltage or power source (an output) because it will draw high current. That's why ... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear "Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records" by Jan Jelinek (2001). This minimalist electronic ambient album is quite special. Great for late night listening.It might be difficult to find a hard copy, but you can check it out at youtube:https://www.youtube.com/pla... | |
| Still confused about clipping after reading all the articles. @cd318 The reason tweeters are susceptible to damage from an amp clipping is that the distorted (flat-topped) waveform contains huge amounts of high frequency energy that are not there if the undistorted wave had been able to reach a normal peak.... | |
| How do you sort your LPs? No one has mentioned this method, but I think that it’s genius. I had a childhood friend who simply kept his records sorted in order of acquisition. The advantage is that he never had to shuffle them around them to add new records. (This task beco... | |
| The new OPPO Digital UDP-203 question Most TVs produced in the last few years already come with built-in apps for NetFlix, YouTube and other streaming services. And if your TV doesn’t, there numerous inexpensive set top boxes and dongles available that do support these services (Roku,... |