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That's what you get with no cross over. And you'll never blow the tweeter!

One last thing to consider if it does wind up being a standing wave, would be OB style speakers- they can be a lot...

Actually, I don't think the problem is the room leaking bass- this could be a standing wave problem and you just happen to be in the null. Get a SPL meter and a test tone in the 40hz range, and move...

It's probably garbage, then. $20-$30, seems to be the going price, but I would wait for something better to pop up. The 70's pioneers show up on CL all the time and they're pretty solid. I've got...

Ask if it's got woodgrain. There's two pioneer 570's: 80's plastic one that's belt drive and crap crap crap. 70's direct drive one that's got woodgrain on it is pretty solid and worth about $200...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-hand_rule to figure out if it's blowing up or down (see screw illustration).

Eh. Looks like a lightly modified B&O 1000ASP module. I would start by picking some unmodified modules and if you like the sound, go for that. The modules really are just barely DIY- all you need...

Ahhhhh. I was wondering why you included the power consumption at idle in your comparison.

Anyhow, stereophile defines clipping as 1% THD, so the 1800 watts really is an apples to apples...

They're both balanced designs, so they will both have the same issues with low impedence loads. The difference being that Bryston always under-rates their amps....

An Audio Experience pre I had awhile back was prone to a slight hum/hiss. Shorting plugs on the open inputs took it from about 4-5 ft distance where you could hear it down to...

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Input shorting plugs can absolutely reduce noise on a lot of preamp designs and it wasn't uncommon for older receivers and pres to ship with them. As for non-shorting caps, there are many,...

The shorting caps can absolutely reduce system noise. Not like, "Listen to the increased texture and depth!" but like, "Oh... that hiss I used to hear from 4 feet away is gone now". Will vary...

I'm a fan of Leviton's hospital grade surge outlets:
http://www.leviton.com/OA_HTML/SectionDisplay.jsp?section=39994&minisite=10251

I still use a SurgeX on top of that for my system, but they're...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQhfcdQf1QA

Oh wait, wrong car.

21 on vinyl:
http://www.dr.loudness-war.info/details.php?id=7953

21 on CD:
http://www.dr.loudness-war.info/details.php?id=22612

You can debate the merits of vinyl for as long as you like, but...

Ha. Came here to say "tripath". Carry on, gentlemen.

One answer is:
BUY
VINYL

Not always, but a good bit of the time the vinyl mix doesn't have the dynamic range compression- check out the numbers for Adele's 21 on the dynamic range database; ...

This is why reverse Polish notation exists.

Tx-nr809 is $431 on amazon right now. Totally don't need one, but I'm tempted anyway. If you need a receiver, jump on this!

Friend of mine did this exact swap- TV DAC to that external DAC (or one that was probably made in the same factory in china) since he didn't want to have his TV on when just listening to music out of...

This. A lot of the digital stage features that were in the older top-end DACs are now frequently found in run-of-the-mill DAC chips, but a crappy analog stage, noisy power supply, etc, can ruin...

Load limit for a 20 amp line assuming 120v is 2400 watts; I was using 115 and the NEC 80% rule to get 1840. You can get nuisance pops once you cross that.

Point being, if I see an amp with more...

Your whole argument about the 20 amp line is ridiculous. At four ohms, 1000 watts x2 assuming 100% efficiency (clearly not the case) you need to feed it 2000 watts. Guess what the maximum...

It's pretty snappy, except for when you're using a plugin that has to scrape info (so not the actual interface, but rather getting the data). Amazon plugin will sit there thinking for a minute and...

You missed it- spammer went through with some penis pills or something. The mods deleted them.

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