Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo Want to Try Super Tube Sound for $20?

i thought that was the joke and was kindof asking tongue in cheek. but i really like that idea i hate those calvin decals i think i will buy a jeep just to steel your idea. lol

What a great thread! You folks have convinced me to get the T-Amp. I'll probably get it from Parts Express as they had no problems in shipping a previous order to South Africa.
Just a few questions:
I'm currently using just bare speaker wire at the binding posts on my M22's, which are connected to my receiver.
I'm thinking of running new speaker wire from the T-amp to the M22, and terminating the M22 end of the T-amp's speaker wire with banana plugs.
Will the input signal from the T-amp still get to the M22, even if I've already got bare speaker wire (from my receiver) in the binding post? Or do I have to buy stackable banana plugs and use banana plugs for both the receiver and the T-amp wire at the M22 end?

If I understand what you mean, and if I remember correctly (and somebody will have to corroborate this), it is NOT A GOOD IDEA to hook two amplifiers to one set of speakers at the same time. Don't do it until somebody with more knowledge than I says it's OK to do so. You'll probably need some sort of a switch box to connect two amps to one set of speakers.

Ajax, thanks for taking the time to answer. Only 1 of the amplifiers would be powering the speakers at any given time.
Why else would stackable banana plugs plugs be invented if this wasn't a possibility.

Oh Frell! I just tried ordering and Parts Express requires a minimum $100 dollar amount for an international order.
Damn, got all excited for nothing.

I concur with Jack. Even if you're only powering one at a time, current is still going to be flowing through both cables. Stackable banana plugs, as I understand it, are often used for adding other speakers to the same speaker output, such as running a pair of center speakers off of one center amp.

zathras- who is the 'new' female on your avatar. is she an actress or model or something.. i dont recognize her..?

and where are you "international". i love to know where folks are from.

bigjohn

bigjohn, my avatar is the delectable Indian hottie Bipasha Basu. She's a model and Bollywood actress. In terms of sex appeal, I find her much more desirable than the other Bollywood actress everone seems to favour, former Miss World Aishwarya Rai (seen recently in Bride and Prejudice).

I'm from Durban, South Africa.
And I've seen enough US tv to guess that you're a proud Texan.

Thanks for the advice on the stackable banana plugs everyone.

Well, as Ken said, and drawing on some caveat I ran across long ago, if you have two amps connected to one set of speakers, even with one of them off, the current from the one that is on, is going into the speakers and then back down the other set of speaker wire to the speaker outputs of the other amp, and I think current flowing INto an OUTput is a "no no." I do hope that someone who knows what they're talking about will chime in here (No offense meant, Ken. You're right about the function of stacking bananas. )

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That sounds like something out of spiffnme's "movie" collection...

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