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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1525: A reply from a lurker by Bud on 2016-01-27 
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First: Good on you John, so few have spent any time on core material properties. I have developed a method for passive self demagnetization in E/I core. Works a charm except that higher perm materials become harder to drive and the driver circuit beg...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1223: I have it! by Bud on 2014-02-03 
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Amy, brushing her hair, inadvertently touched the water faucet in the bathroom. Those pipes go directly into the basement......

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #70: What the hell is Btitish decor anyway? by Bud on 2013-10-14 
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I am certain you need at least two ceramic dalmatians on the nook / odd item stand on the right. In addition you will need to find at least one huge paining of an English noble woman, with a large nose, ridiculous hairdo and over the top gown is a mu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1198: A fractured RCA female ground shield? by Bud on 2013-09-24 
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If you need a pair of isolation 1:1 line level transformers let me know.Bud...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #62: Yet another unwanted direction by Bud on 2013-03-21 
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You might give some time up to a look through ebay for B&K theater controlling preamps. Truly excellent sound, typical B&K overbuilt construction and very nice prices, since they are now out of business....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1079: Ground is hard by Bud on 2013-01-13 
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SOS, please note that your PP 2000 does not isolate one component from another within the reconstituted 60 Hz circuit. It only isolates those components from the noisy and variable wall voltage. Since you think you must isolate your TT and phono stag...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1072: OMG by Bud on 2013-01-12 
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What happens at year 100 & day 1? Can we get our money back if the magnets explode from the machined aluminum, RFI wrapped, tar filled box before year 100? Bud...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: A life together by Bud on 2012-12-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner and women in Musical Discussions  46 Replies 
A woman of singular courage and compassion. To allow an almost unknown man of good heart to help remove the pain from her sorrow.May I offer two slight wedding gifts, two scraps of poetry?Songwhat betterto cross that infinite voidyou and I Love is no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #157: Third grade engineering class by Bud on 2012-09-21 
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paper mache  http://ultimatepapermache.com/paper-mache-recipes over a thin paper form...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #149: /maybe an answer, maybe not by Bud on 2012-09-18 
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John Michael Le Cleach would be my first choice. Least intrusive "horn" I know of....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Crossover crossover rover by Bud on 2011-12-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crossover Design in Audio Discussions  69 Replies 
You need to find an individual who can design series crossovers. Both JBL and Altec used these, because they sounded best. You will need to look for an individual near where you live because they will have to test the drivers as the design progresses...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #992: Corona discharge? Lord I hope not! by Bud on 2011-12-29 
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That corona PP discharge can be a mess...... make sure you XYZ to ensure a proper discharge path and then scout the local territory for a proper receptacle.The RDH says nothing. But, if you read it you can learn how to design power supplies that don'...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Try something unusual and inexpensive by Bud on 2011-12-29 
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This is an exploratory tweak. You will be finding out if your system is amenable. Take a 2 foot long piece of lamp cord. Split it into two pieces. Strip the insulation off of both ends and make a loop out of the wire length by twisting the ends toget...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #983: And just to make you even crazier by Bud on 2011-12-28 
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All transformers are phase inverting. The lowest leakage point of primary and secondary windings relationship to conventional E/I and C core is the physical start of the helical spiral winding. This is assuming more than one layer of wire. In toroid'...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: A long life to both of you by Bud on 2011-12-19 
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This is a story I love. I have been equally fortunate to have a cat girl friend, once in my life. She is no longer anywhere but in my memory and I miss her touch and her concern....Bud...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #936: Something forgotten? by Bud on 2011-12-12 
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Perhaps it would be the ideal place to put Dima's ideas about "tunable" power isolation /regeneration systems to work?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: A wild ride begins by Bud on 2011-11-13 
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Knowing your love of transient speed in transformers I think you would do best with a small Lundahl device. They are Per's pride and joy. If you want to skew towards information transform, with a slight "softening" of leading edge performance I can h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #134: Why not really use the basement by Bud on 2011-10-27 
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I think you should investigate a transmission line subterranean woofer system. One tuned for 8 Hz and turned off at 28 Hz. That way you could use your beloved lite weight drivers where they are most useful and a super woofer with XBL magnet structure...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #882: Tied up and drug off to be hanged by Bud on 2011-10-20 
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Just be either very quiet about this or raise a huge stink about it. If you do this as a normal person might, some local bureaucracy will see to it that you do not survive. It is of course fascinating to think about your attempt to do this as a norma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #842: Maybe a more useful comparison can be had by Bud on 2011-04-13 
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Look here at the latest wavelet analysis of an EnABL'd speaker and an untreated speaker.http://planet10-hifi.com/mige-test/wavelet/index.htmlThe test is not important here, but the blink comparison might be just the ticket to show of where the si...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #619: Absolute uncertainty is still absolute by Bud on 2010-12-07 
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Yes. Their is a direct correlation between surge current and dielectric materials dielectric constant. The voltages in question are high enough to use a thick dielectric material and just as with the effective resistance of the capacitor, there is a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #617: A clip here a snip there by Bud on 2010-12-07 
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Sounds like they have a problem with current capability of their chopper circuit, the one that takes the AC voltage and cuts it into very tiny slivers before rectifying it to DC. Obviously the AC reconstitution circuit has adequate current capability...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Actual SE OPT prformance limits by Bud on 2010-10-28 
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Hi Panos,Romy asked me for a sanity check on your stated performance limits for your SE OPT's. It is good to see someone paying some attention to what is in the Radiotron Designers Handbook for high performance coils. What you are doing, winding five...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #374: The dark side of all notes by Bud on 2010-10-11 
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Interesting point of view Romy. I have been exploring what I think is the same phenomena with the silly Ground Control devices. Certainly the changes brought about can only be happening on the "dark side" of the notes, since the devices are connected...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #368: Yup yup yup yup by Bud on 2010-10-08 
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Just so long as the Berringer has a Jan Didden designed output board and has all crossovers done by 300 Hz and the 300 to 20 kHz is handled by a VERY GOOD, VERY MUSICAL and moderately slow tube amp, just to get the important part back into the middle...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #366: The sound of frying bacon.... on your forehead, under the tin cap........ by Bud on 2010-10-07 
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LT Spice will also provide some of this operational modeling. I have not used Leap, but inputting variable states in LT Spice will provide you with all of the linear state information you could want. Naturally music has no linear states.....Putting a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #364: Stumbling around in inductorville by Bud on 2010-10-07 
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If you are going to use an LC filter, be sure that the choke has a big enough gap that the L does not change across the line level voltage range. Specifically ask Sowter about this. For instance, the choke I spoke to you about changes from 2.8 Henry ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #561: The fine chords by Bud on 2010-08-29 
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The sine wave actually looks quite good no hint of saturation, clipping or wave deformity. Only a single trace, rather than a twisted rope. I suspect that when placed under a load much of the "broken" curve will smooth out. I would also suspect that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #79: Ahigh voltage coil by Bud on 2010-02-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vitavox S2 with Electromagnets in Horn-Loaded Speakers  91 Replies 
CV,All that you point to is quite correct. My comments were based strictly upon which coil voltage would be a superior sounding electromagnet. The only benefit  I can see to a higher voltage is the faster rise time in the voice coil of the induced EM...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #392: An isolated example of misunderstanding isolation by Bud on 2009-07-15 
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All switch mode power supplies that receive a CE, UL or CSA approval have complete isolation from the wall voltage, across the dielectric barriers of a transformer, from primaryto secondary.The isolation of noise occurs because the incoming wall ...
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