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| New David Gilmour record:any feedback? My Best Buy was out of it as well. Made a special trip for nothing! | |
| Good Value & Performance FLEXIBLE Power Cable? Check DCCA's power cables out. Last year the cables were thick, heavy and unwieldy. This year, Don is making his cables lighter and really flexible such that trying to position the cables is no longer a challenge. His budget power cable, the Power... | |
| loud hum from power amp. It may be some kind of grounding issue in your electrical somewhere. It has happened to me as well, where one amp is perfectly silent, and another amp buzzes / hums like crazy through the speakers. Some amps are sensitive, some not. A quick check ... | |
| Help Testing Tubes Sure I'm serious...Always willing to help a fellow audiophool! Shoot me an email... | |
| Ayre Acoustics and Egglestonworks I ran an Ayre V-5x for a while last year with my Andra IIs. I really liked the V-5x a lot with the Andras, but ultimately, I and a few others prefered a BAT VK-500 w/ the BATPAK as a more synergistic match for them. From memory, the V-5x was more ... | |
| Help Testing Tubes Come on up to 25 mi. north of Chicago and I can help you! | |
| Request to hear Zu speakers A third for Chicago! | |
| Decision between Zu Definition OR VS DB99 Keep us posted on your home audition, Hifi....Does anybody in the Chicago area have the Definitions cranking away? | |
| Viewing Preference? 4:3 with gray bars. When I researched this quite a while ago, I found out it is better for the projection tubes to run gray bars than black. | |
| Buzzing sound from VR4Sr The CJ350, a great amp, btw, is sensitive to grounding issues. When I owned one, I had to put a cheater plug on it which lifted the ground, and that eliminated all the hum or buzzing. | |
| tube preamp used with HT Modwright SWL 9.0 SE | |
| DCCA PC stiffness? I'm a huge fan of DCCA cables, and I already own a couple of Extreme Refs for my amp, and a PowerWave2 for my PS300. These were bought late last year, and I had to have the Extremes customized with 90 degree bends to make them fit. Don did a great... | |
| Window Treatments to Remove reflected sound Double or Triple Honeycomb cellular shades work well too. | |
| What is an Audiophile? An audiophile is a perfectionist who is passionate about music, and secondarily about the equipment and tweaks used to replicate the musical event in their own home, not merely playing back a CD or LP.How's that for a run-on sentence! | |
| What is the best Frank Sinatra CD? Thanks for the tips, gang...Most, if not all of these are available on yourmusic.com for a nominal fee... |