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| Cable Elevators I bought 4 nice, soft, chunky erasers for $4.00 at a craft store to elevate my cables. They eliminated the vibrations I could feel with my hand on the cables. In any case, problem solved for basically no cost or worry. Arthur | |
| Electrolytic capacitors 4 or 5 years is no problem. 8 or 9 of zero use is starting to get to where you should worry a little. Over 20 you need to consider replacement. This is my experience as an EE.There are thousands of capacitors for sale at Newark and Digikey that ha... | |
| Amplifier advice for Wilson Sophia speakers If they are Sophia 1, the best sound I have heard from those speakers was with a McIntosh MC352 and C200 preamp. Absolutely awesome.Arthur | |
| How isolated is your hi-fi? Our stereo room is our living room - not the other way around. It works just fine for us that way.Arthur | |
| Can an EL34 tube be replaced with a KT88 or 6550? Generally no. There are some autobias amps that have a large enough range to handle it but they aren't common. I would not assume that your amp can do it. The counterpart of the EL34 would be the KT77. The 6CA7 can also be used. But check with the... | |
| Reused Item Photos. Misleading? I feel it HAS to be disclosed if the pics aren't actual ones. Arthur | |
| product you use for dusting equipment I don't use any sprays - I find they leave marks, especially on painted surfaces. I simply use a static duster. They have thousands of fine plastic hairs that get static charged and then dust clings to them. Works great!Arthur | |
| Why is my Mcintosh MC-2155 slow? You don't want a forgiving speaker with McIntosh IMO. The new DALIs I heard were not all that forgiving (ribbon tweeter) but if your's are, then it is time for a change.You don't mention your budget so I will guess. If I were you, I would look int... | |
| Do amplifiers deteriorate if not used? Yes but very slowly. I don't think you need to worry about it so long as the storage location doesn't have big temperature or humidity swings.Arthur | |
| Why is my Mcintosh MC-2155 slow? Hsindao's advice is excellent. I didn't think of it before but I too have found that amps sound more dynamic when they are running at high gain (i.e. low input sensitivity). I run my MC240 at high gain by using "twin amp" instead of "stereo" - def... | |
| Why is my Mcintosh MC-2155 slow? The mid-eighties McIntosh amps are like that generally speaking. They have so much microdynamics that the tempo gets a little lost. You can speed it up a bit by replacing the capacitors since they are 25 years old at this point.Also part of it is ... | |
| Speaker "pops" when power amp shut off Your power rails are dumping at turn off. There is generally a bleeder resistor or a cap arrangement to let it happen slowly to ground but something has gone wrong. The turn off sequence won't change that. I would just send it back to Ayre for the... | |
| Once you go MAC you never go back.... My journey You should give your 2155 a new capacitor job too - it is worth it. I had one briefly and often wondered what it would have sounded like rebuilt. I currently use a 1961 MC240 tube amp that I totally rebuilt myself and the improvement in dynamics a... | |
| Poll.....what size is your room? 14 x 13 x 7.5. I used to want it bigger but now I think this one is just right. | |
| Effect of bi-amping?? Marten Design & Dartzeel There are two types: vertical and horizontal biamping. Vertical is what I think you are thinking of where you would have two identical amps powering the speakers, one for each speaker. This arrangement can provide improvements of all types simply ... |