Stereophile march 2014 pdf

Date: June 1, Date: May 1, Date: March 13, Date: March 4, Date: June 27, Date: June 21, Date: June 17, Date: June 10, Date: June 6, Date: March 18, Date: June 19, Date: June 12, Date: June 7, Date: March 30, Date: June 5, Date: May 23, Date: May 18, Date: April 28, Title: Commission Releases Credit Ratings. Date: June 30, Date: May 25, Date: April 27, Date: April 22, Date: April 20, Date: March 31, Date: July 13, Date: May 27, Date: April 15, Date: April 10, The slightly larger LED to the right of the Standby button lights blue if the amp is in bridged mode.

There is more going on in the back: both XLR and RCA inputs for each channel with toggle switches to select them; a pair of RCA line outputs to permit daisy-chaining the input to additional amps; a toggle to select fixed or variable gain; a gain control; and a control for the sensitivity of the Auto-Sense function.

Above these connectors is a grounding lug to help remove ground-loop hum. Next is a mini-USB port for servicing, a 12V trigger input and output, and a bridged-mode switch that's intentionally hard to get at. Finally, there are two pairs of sturdy, multiway speaker terminals, that power rocker, an AC fuse holder, and an IEC receptacle. Standard bridging strategies are verboten with Purifi amp modules since neither output terminal is at ground potential and should never be connected to an external ground.

Unlike regular bridged amplifiers, where the output is taken from the left and right positive terminals, NAD uses the left positive and right negative terminals and cautions against connecting subwoofers, switches, or headphone adapters with common ground connections. Safety is a good reason for the bridging switch to be inconvenient. NAD could improve this very useful feature by providing a visible index mark on the tiny knob. Context and listening Although my system is multichannel, there is no processor or preamplifier.

The output of the DACs drives the power amps directly via balanced connections. When playing two-channel music, I used fixed gain. Fixed gain in stereo mode However, to use a pair of bridged C amps, my options were to use fixed gain and adjust the channel balance in JRiver or the DAC or to use variable gain to match the other channels.

The character of the amp remained constant across all these permutations. Footnote 1: The quote is from Wireless World , December It's likely true, though, that most designers in the hi-fi space weren't aware of it. The article "Current Dumping Audio Amplifier" is on pages There are responses at the end of the issue. Search on the page for "walker".

The NAD amp using those new modules will be the C t. Some recordings deserve high purity in the playback signal chain.

Some others might be better with some added manipulation, coloration, masking. Subjective opinions vary. There are existing products that purport to emulate by various means the nonlinear behavior of various desirable guitar amplifiers, microphone preamplifiers, and other audio gear utilized in the creation of music. One of the more promising paths forward utilizes the processing power of the digital audio workstation computer's graphics processing unit GPU.

It is early days, with lot of room for improvement going forward. More to the application of playback gear, I would expect to see software applications providing the consumer with varied subjectively euphonic nonlinear distortion colorations specifically mapped to playback material. There could be a separate market for creative works providing those mappings separate from the original work, such that they would not have to license rights to the music to provide the remastering.

Sure, I recall. Bob Carver is a clever guy, maybe more clever than our typical High End Manufacturer. I was manufacturing Turntable accessories at the time. HR, Mr. Dudley and a few others able to discern differences in Cabling, Amps, Phono Carts. Back then we did have an abundance of review writers promoting product with Broad Stroke Endorsements.

Overall our highest Integrity Authority has always been Mr. JA of Stereophile although he hasn't the articulate ear of his Mr. Herb R. Carver was always a sharper Spoon in the drawer than most of our tweaky manufacturers. I was wondering how come KR could distinguish the piano provenance in the two Proust recordings but heard a cello in the Harmonia Mundi one… Mixing up the players is one thing, obviously a typo, but mixing up the instruments?

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I appreciate both of your insights here. I know a lot of times it's hard to speak to one's system for fear of others being critical. Very well put. Submitted by Glotz on March 25, - am.

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