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| Counterfeit Audio? There is talk that the Cello gear is actually rebadged (and reworked?) Chinese stuff so it could well be the one you saw was counterfeit.There are also fake cables going around - particularly van den Hul and Kimber too I believe.Arthur | |
| added amp...now hiss from spkr's Some amps have noise at idle and there is no way to fix it. Zero feedback designs are most prone to this problem, of course, and so will always be noisier than those with some feedback. If it was coming from your woofers it could be sub-optimal gr... | |
| Five "Golden Rules" of HiFi? Hey - mine match yours! Pretty cool.Arthur | |
| McIntosh MCD 201 vs. other good $4K SACD Players I know early 201s did have transport issues but I would have thought that they were all fixed by now. Maybe they missed your dealer's.I have found that some SACD layers are not very good, especially on hybrids. Actually some SACDs are not any bett... | |
| Krell 400xi vs. BAT VK-300x vs. McIntosh MA6900 I agree that McIntosh is quite different from most other SS amps and if you like it, little else will do. I suppose that is why they are the oldest hifi manufacturer in the world - they always retained part of the market somehow.McIntosh SS will a... | |
| low vs high gain As Shadorne says, you adjust it so that your preamp's volume control has the most range. If at 32dB, you only need to turn your volume 10% to make it loud, then changing to 26dB will allow you to turn the volume to say, 30% to make it loud. You sh... | |
| Massive buzz when using CJ PV10A with NAD C372 Yeah, sounds like there is something wrong with the CJ. That it too bad but Lew Johnson is a swell guy and he can get it fixed, no problem.Arthur | |
| MC402 vs FPB 300cx Well that changes things! Oh well. Someone at the factory probably just forgot to put some jumpers on the board. Or the Krell person got it backwards.Caps hold a charge if they are isolated from chassis ground. In this case, they can hold a charge... | |
| MC402 vs FPB 300cx I would give it shot and see since it is just a matter of changing a jumper setting. If you had to solder a cap in, I would forget it. I hope Krell comes through for you.Arthur | |
| MC402 vs FPB 300cx Sure thing! I have two other audio buddies here in town and one way we can track down what we are actually hearing is to swap gear and hear it in each other's systems. This is a great way to figure out what is good and what isn't - and to double c... | |
| MC402 vs FPB 300cx Yeah but that doesn't necessarily mean the problem is the amps themselves - just that the amps revealed the problem to you. I have seen this before and in that case, it turned out to be the CD player that was the culprit but he couldn't tell it wa... | |
| MC402 vs FPB 300cx If you are hearing glare from two nice and very different amps, then the problem may not be the amplifiers at all. I think I would start looking for problems elsewhere in the chain...Arthur | |
| Cleaning silver faceplates? I use 409 and paper towel. Works great.Arthur | |
| MC402 vs FPB 300cx Funny for Krell to recommend capacitive coupling! Did they say whether it is input or output coupling you need? I assume input since you mention your tube preamp (and yes, this is a good idea) but I have read some speaker designers say that lack o... | |
| Krell FPB 600c 700cx 400cx Heatsink noises. Great! Glad to be of help. Enjoy the music (and the silence).Arthur |