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| Why do people think I'm nuts involving audio? Sal,I am a bit late in responding to this one; however here goes:My first Job out of College was working for a tube audio mfg!, talk about dream come true! I loved it. It took me a while and another audio mfg to realize that I needed to make more ... | |
| noisy volume pot Go to Chicken Shack (aka Radio Shack) and pick up a can of "tunner cleaner", great stuff.Happy listening | |
| Antenna cable In theory, the cable/wire industry established codes for wire types, and the same code is the same cable across the board. In reality there are some differences; however one needs to put the differences into perspective w/ the application. "quad" ... | |
| Least Losses: Long speaker cable vs. Long Interconnect? In contrast to much of what appears above, I would like to point out a few things:1: Music is an AC waveform and is mostly made up of voltage (read amplitude) varriations for volume, and frequency varriations for the obvious.2: interconnects carry... | |
| Which support for underneath CD player? A slab of corian w/ some vibrapods, or other sorbothane type feet. | |
| Why aren't these on the "recommended list?" Whose list and why do they HEAR better than you?, esp in your house? | |
| Triode vs Penthod vs Tetrod tube operations. There are as many books and pamphletes as there are designers. There are a large number of "text-book" style books that were published between the 30s and 60s that would be a good start. Additionally I would recommend that you get your hands on a ... | |
| babys and your components I have a 2+yo and a 4mo, The initial solution was to gate the listening room from free acess, and to allow supervised acess only. Additionally I have multiple systems, with most of the equipment-amps, pre-amp, and front end devices in a rack in a ... | |
| are older speakers anywhere close to the new stuff? I picked up an old pair of Shahinian Elfs recently and have been very pleased with what they do, both in terms of sound stage, timber and freq.response. Given what has been said and what you have clearly understood about material degredation over ... | |
| Anntenna Question Eric,The antenna from RS is probably OK, and you are just loosing signal from the conectors, also how is the RG6 connected to the antenna?, Most RS antennas (multi-element Yagis)are set up for 300 Ohm lead, you will need to install a transformer t... | |
| What 's the different between MDF and HDF ? Hakan has the nomenclature correct, the difference in construction has to do with the partical size distribution, and construction methodology.MDF is made up of different sized particals with a lower and upper size limit, and are bound w/ a formal... | |
| Best speaker with tubes? I have used Maggies , and currently have ProAc Response 3 Sigs (I know, old & out of production-But they sound great!)Try also JM Labs. | |
| Tube amp for a somewhat difficult load Try a Music Reference RM-9, or RM-200.Roger's amps are taped out to 2, 4 & 8 Ohms, and have plenty of current.Happy Listening | |
| monoblocks: one dedicated line or two? The answer to this question depends upon where the lines are comming from, and the 'quality' back at the service connection. If you have clean power to the hi-fi,(from the service connection) separating out the feeds to the amps won't necessarily ... | |
| Homemade floor protectors -- advice needed Instead of Stone, I would encourage you to use either MDF, HDF, or Corrian. These materials are more dense in an irregular manner. Stone, Grannite esp. is an amalgum of different metamorphic rocks with very regular crystaline structure, Marble is ... |