albertporter
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| New tubes every year...or every five? ? I don't have enough experience with the Jadis circuit to know whether the tubes could survive that length of time or not. I did have a similar situation with a Counterpoint SA9 phono stage that was left on (NOT just standby) for 24/7. During a sto... | |
| High-End Power Cable for TV? I installed a Tiffany TPC 60 power cable on my Pioneer 50" rear projection TV, and got a nice improvement. The picture was cleaner, lower noise, a little sharper, and the color had slightly better saturation. I could not detect any change at all i... | |
| How do you ship heavy oversized speakers I have also had great results with Delta Air Cargo, I have used them for more than 10 years, and have had only one small claim. I recently shipped a large speaker, measuring 7 X 4 X 2 feet, at a total expense of less than $140.00 including insuran... | |
| cd spray tweaks? I agree with Elizabeth that the CD sprays and green pens do work, at least in my system. In fact, sometime the change is so obvious that you need not have a duplicate CD to compare. However, I also agree with Cornfedboy about Mapleshade. When I fi... | |
| New Music vs. New Equipment I am not challenging the comments about the validity of attending live concerts, but a quick look over my software tells me that more of my favorite artists are dead than alive. Maybe if I am really good, I will have the opportunity to hear them i... | |
| 5.1 Rear Speaker Placement Opinions? For Dolby 5.1, I followed the traditional front end set up, with side positions utilizing dipoles. The speakers I choose for the sides directed one pair of drivers 45 degrees front, and another pair of drivers 45 degrees rear. The wall position fo... | |
| Tuner Vs. 4DTV music channels Mikec, I appreciate your thoughtful information, I did not know about the HDTV option with DSS. I am going to have to do some extensive reconstruction to my living/listening room this year, so I will have to postpone any video purchases until that... | |
| Tuner Vs. 4DTV music channels I have to admit that I was using the standard audio out jacks on my Sony DSS receiver. Mine is one of the first models built, and does not provide a digital output signal. I made the comparison of the DSS music channels against a Marantz 10B, whic... | |
| Wherefore Art Thou Vinyl Traders? Send me a list of any Jazz or Blues you have for trade. Also, you probably already visit there, but I just looked, and 103,558 Records are for sale on EBAY tonight. | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? I still love my Soundlab Ultimate 1. This pair is from the very first ever production run, and must be six years old now. They are still the only piece of audio gear that I never consider changing. What evolution that has occurred in the construct... | |
| Capacitance problem - long interconnect? Elizabeth is right, if the cable you are using is causing a problem, it could be from capacitance it is adding to your preamps output. This effect is the same as adding a capacitor to "roll off" the top frequencies. This occurs only if the measure... | |
| SACD vs ANALOG Tmartinjr@erols.com, you did an excellent job of listing the reasons I hope the SACD format will survive. Consider the performance offered by the original CD players and software when introduced over 20 years ago. If the SACD format can evolve eve... | |
| 20 Amp Lines w/separate ground Here in Audiophile forums, at the first page, you may fill in a request to search headlines. I just put in "dedicated lines" and came up with two recent topics with some very good posts on this very subject. If you search there and read what has b... | |
| SACD vs ANALOG The topic of digital versus analog has been covered at Audigon many times, and is sure to draw fire from music lovers on both sides. I have both a state of the art turntable, and the new Sony 9000 SACD player. The analog has the endearing liquid a... | |
| Tuner Vs. 4DTV music channels Yes, I have done this comparison. If your local FM stations are doing a good job with broadcast quality (only you would know for your area), then the FM tuner will win. The free music channel signals from DTV are very compressed, and the DSS recei... |