Your Sony STR I belive had in input sensitivity of less than 200mV, which was pretty common for that time.
When CD's came out the defacto redbook standard became 2V-rms.
Your distortion problem could be as simple as the audioengine supplying enough signal to overload the front end of the...
ACHIPo
A semi epiptic spring and suspensory pendilum. No "elastomeric" damping; but none the less pretty lossy. They settle out quickly in the verticle plaine.
Steveo
The Wellfloats were gifted by one of the staff at Electori and Company in Tokyo after I had exressed interest in at CES some years ago. My contact at Electori has retired.
Electori did not as far as I know have any dealings with the Wellfloat company, this was simply a private...
Yes I have several sets. I've done demo's with a high mass plinth fit with an SP-10 MK II and various arms and hte whoe affiar on Wel-Floats. No one has ever been brave enough to smack the top of the plinth with enough force to get the stylus to skip. A small lateral nudge however is pretty...
Hi Kingrex
Yes quite familiar with potential ground loops, proximity of driven rods and ufers was rigidly spelled out by the DoE protocols and that I can test rather easily; but you bring up a very valid point, especially when water pipes are involved. Ground loop currents have the nasty...
Hi Ron
Chemical grounds are very effective if you can penetrate the earth and if you can keep the moisture content high enough to keep the electrolyte saturated; I would have a difficult time achieving either conditional. Water mains and branch feeders are plastic, so the days of grounding to...
I know old thread. NO not doing that, nor would I.
But living in an arid climate with a structure on a rocky hill has it's challenges. The first being that you're not going to drive a ground rod. Code allows for a UFER mat; 20 feet of 1/2" rebar in the foundation pour. In wet weather it...
I own most of those (as do most of us) and about the only time they get played is when someone from the local "audio group" comes over..... otherwise..... not so much. I tell the guys to go to the local music emporium.... be that a "music store" or a "Musical Instrument" store and find the...
As we look all the way back to the very first Pass Labs / Aleph-amps of early '91 we don't see any particular difference in reliability or mortality between those that have been in industrial service running 24/7 and those at home that are turned on and off on a regular basis.
Kent English...
No surprise there.
When I first started putting VFD's on motor drives (back in the "dark-ages").... the industry had a sudden spate of ball bearings dying prematurely.
Turns out there was induced circulating currents in the bearings from the switchmode power supplies. Before the bearing...