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| High speed internet via electrical power lines If it's gonna be a problem that begs a solution, then some corporate profiteer will oblige us with one. Damn those capitalists :) | |
| Blind Power Cord Test & results The problem with a/b testing in a controlled group is forgetting what was heard previously. Take another example: if you a/b tested digital cameras or photo printers and you laid out all the samples in front of people they would easily be able to ... | |
| solid state gear- leave on? It'd neither a good idea nor a bad idea. An amp will sound its best when warmed up and ready to go and every second thereafter will not improve things one bit. If the amp requires many hours before being warmed up, then, yes, I'd go for 24/7. If i... | |
| Pass x250 always on:how much more $ in electricity I agree with the $20.00 per month estimate. According to Pass' specs, it idles at 270 watts. Running 24/7 is about 200 kwh extra a month....figure on Con Ed hitting you up for a dime average per kwh.BTW, when I first ran my Class A mono's during t... | |
| 10/3 or 10/2 to each outlet? Dave, first of all your electrician will run the wiring according to code - regardless of what you suggest to him. The only thing he'll consider is wire that is sized bigger than required that will physically fit the outlet or breaker. For example... | |
| Help on basic 200 amp electrical service? If you want to know just the size of the service, the only two ways to do it is either to look in the service panel and see what the placard says, eg, "120/240 VAC 100-ampere" will tell you the maximum capacity of the panel is 100-amps. It doesn't... | |
| Most Common Gear-Matching Mistakes? Relying on other people's opinions, reviews and assigning way too much importance to specs - including impedance matching - without first listening. Sorry, but looking towards these things without critical listening and evaluation in your own list... | |
| How low can one hear Huh?? Say again I can't say for sure why that statement can be made. I've read things on hearing that says youngin's can hear down to 16 Hz and the range of normal hearing is 20 Hz to 18 kHz. I can hear (barely) the 20 Hz test tone on the Stereophile Test CD . Gr... | |
| "High Current" The "wattage" can decrease and the current can increase. Look at your formula - if the current decreases by a factor of 10 and the voltage increases by a factor of 20, the wattage doubles. As far as the the power rating of the SimAudio i-5, it's d... | |
| Need help on power supply caps If the amp has 35-amp/400V bridge rectifiers, it won't be a problem; if it's less than that (15, 20, 25-A), then see if it's possible to replace them with the 35-A, the largest rating available, if you want to be sure. I agree with Herman, the exi... | |
| Egglestone Andra 1 tweeter "crossover" Have you considered the possibility that the "bright" might be from the room surfaces and/or speaker positioning? | |
| Slew Rate? The slew rate of an amp will tell you how fast the amp is capable of reproducing an output signal with respect to the input signal. The output signal of an amplifier is similar to an enlarged xerox image of the input signal's magnitude. But the in... | |
| Do power conditioners help with unwanted hum/noise In some cases, even dedicated circuits or power conditioners might not help. If the house power system is not grounded properly or there's excessive current in the neutral wiring (dimmers, fluorescents, computers, etc), or if strong external RFI/E... | |
| Switching polarity of tweeter in two-way design Not really. That will only work if the crossover frequency's wavelength is exactly twice the distance between the tweeter and midwoofer. And it would only work at that one frequency. | |
| Special digital cable needed? The 75-ohm value is a "standard" of sorts. Basically, the reason for it is to keep the impedance between sources at a value where there is no signal reflection (which can cause jitter). Whether or not a 75-ohm cable sounds better because of it I g... |