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| If your CD's are harsh, try this Whatever changes you may be hearing are occurring in the analog domain. Your analog copy is made from the Digital source converted to Analog and back to Digital, so you have both a DAC and an ADC along with associated filters, analog line stages, ... | |
| If an amp has 4 ohm taps Speakers are a complex load with resistive, inductive and capacitive components, as well as a back EMF generated by the speaker and damped by the amps out stage. More sensitive speakers have greater back EMF. All that rolls up into a goat rodeo ca... | |
| looking for bookshelves - Another usual boring speaker discussion Monitor Audio Gold 100 6G. 8" 3-way, Port tuned to 38Hz, 3" midrange, ribbon tweeter. 500W power handling. All combine for greater range and dynamic range than are possible in most standmount/bookshelf. The fact that the also have great soundstagi... | |
| 3k budget for Turntable and Phono Noob- do I need external power supplies? Leave the PSBS for later. At $4k you're getting into some pretty nice gear. I'd start with a Hana SL MkIi. That leaves $3200 for the table. VPI, Clearaudio, MoFi, Rega, for starters. Not flaming, but no Technics 'cuz they ugly. Their design was ma... | |
| BS meter is pegged! What a joy to read a comment from a technically competent audiophile. Perhaps the time has come to acknowledge that in the digital realm virtually all of the product differentiation comes down to casework, reconstruction filter implementation, a... | |
| Linn LP12 turntable @mylogic You point to car dealerships as comparable to the Linn ecosystem, and I agree. For decades Linns have appeared to fall into the same category as owning a British sportscar, complete with oxcart suspension technology and adapted industria... | |
| Surge protectors--how many $ make sense? @rfagon Clamping voltage is a single dimensional specification, It means very little unless the clamping time is also specified. In the case of SquareD, their whole house surge protectors have a clamping time of 4-6 nanoseconds. When you consider ... | |
| Tube Sound With Equalization? Equalizer have their place - in the frequency domain - but what youre looking for isn't in there. | |
| Does You Subwoofer Settings ?? Room acoustics issues are static, more or less, and variances are most likely in individual recordings, particularly if the differences are in quality, e.g. definition not just qiantity. Also, If you are listening at only 75 dBA, you're also well ... | |
| Linn LP12 turntable Short answer: Buy it. It is a quality classic turntable. With those upgrades, $2400 is a value. And, a safe investment - it is unlikely that it will ever be worth significantly less than $2400.. | |
| Question about high current amps versus "not high current amps" Speakers are current driven complex impedance devices. They are not a purely resistive load. Because of that complex impedance speakers require more current at some frequencies tha others.Ohms law applies, but only at a given frequency will the ca... | |
| What actually determines volume power? Is it watts? Max speaker output is limited by a number of factors, but as a rule of thumb speaker sensitivity +20-23 dB is about the practical limit. So, a KEF LS-50 is about 84dB sensitivity and is capable of peak output put of 104dB at 1M distance which req... | |
| Surge protectors--how many $ make sense? Defense in depth: Absolutely begin with a whole house surgeprotector. It is the cheapest insurance known for everything electric in your home, especially if you lie in thunderstorm prone areas. If you have sub-panels, but one in their as well. Nex... | |
| Turntable Quandry Start with a Hana MC, maybe the Hana SL MkII for $850. You simply wont do better for under $1000. Then, if you decide to upgrade your turntable, you'll have the cart decision already made. Changing o e component at a time makes it easy to assess i... | |
| Where's the next weak link in my analog chain? Bang for buck? The new Hana SL MkII. For $850 it is hands down the best under $1000 cart on the market, and maybe even $2000. It carries a lot of features of their higher end Umami carts and leaves enough money in your wallet for cables, if you ar... |