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| Olive customer service Wow, that does indeed sound like their products and their support leave something to be desired, Mofi.If they continue to be unresponsive, the one additional thought that occurs to me, assuming that you are past the one year warranty period, and a... | |
| Olive customer service Mofi, I have no particular familiarity with Olive products, but after looking at the documentation two thoughts occur to me regarding backups:1)Do you have the latest software installed? Their software release notes indicate that several backup-re... | |
| Budget Cable Suggestions: 15 ft Runs 8,9 Gauge Doug makes a good point. Two identical paralleled cables are equivalent in terms of resistance to a single cable that is three gauge sizes larger (e.g., paralleling two 12 gauge runs will be equivalent to 9 gauge).Doing that would also cut inducta... | |
| Integrates That Go Well With Totem Forest Doesn't the impedance curve of the Forest make it unsuitable for tube amps. There's a fairly wide high peak centered around 2K.In comparison with the frequency response that would result if the speaker were driven by a solid state amp having negli... | |
| Humor In Music Some notable satires of ...Doo Wop: "Who Put The Bomp?" (Barry Mann)Michael Jackson: "Eat It" ("Weird Al" Yankovic)Classical: "The Unbegun Symphony" (P.D.Q. Bach, aka Professor Peter Schickele)Regards,-- Al :-) | |
| Cables more hype than value? 07-03-13: NoromanceOpen question: what sounds better? All other things being equal, NM10/3 copper coming directly from the breaker box and terminated at the amp/source in an IEC plug OR NM10/3 terminating at a good quality recepticle with a $10,00... | |
| A question about preamplifiers and headphones It will function, but I suspect that it won't be optimal sonically, and conceivably also in terms of the peak volume levels that can be reached cleanly (which may be an especially significant consideration for well recorded minimally compressed cl... | |
| Sota Sapphire I have an early version Sapphire, ca. 1983, which uses a servo motor. Later versions, or at least most later versions, use a synchronous motor, as I understand it.I haven't taken the time to dig out my strobe disc, but based on a quick look my Sap... | |
| one last show Kiri Te Kanawa.Best regards,-- Al | |
| Bass leaves after amp warms up? Actually, what he said he did with the interconnects was to reverse channels, not phase. He didn't say anything about also reversing channels with the speaker cables, so the right channel is apparently being reproduced by the left speaker, and vic... | |
| Wet speaker cables As an alternative to having the dealer test them consider buying a multimeter, and testing them yourself for shorts and opens. If you do that, while holding the test leads in place for each test have someone else manipulate the cables, to make sur... | |
| One artist, band, you keep coming back to Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Dvorak, Mozart, Prokofiev, Schubert.Speaking of Joni Mitchell, though, among popular recordings one of my all-time favorites is Judy Collins' original 1967/68 recording of "Both Sides Now," written by Joni, which w... | |
| Tonearm with removable head-shell Without the complete turntable it will bealmost impossible to setup and align a cartridge correctly.+1.The only instance I am aware of in which a cartridge can be properly installed without having the entire turntable is if both the cartridge and ... | |
| Bass leaves after amp warms up? Fishing, I still find myself uncertain of the meaning of your description of the connections. I think you are saying (correct me if I'm wrong) that what you WERE doing was:1)Connecting the "red treble" banana plug of the cable to the red binding p... | |
| Bass leaves after amp warms up? Was certain Alaister said Red treble,black bass/Red treble & black bass...It turns out from top down the correct way is Red Treble/black treble & Red bass/black bass..Could you clarify in detail what this means? After thinking about it for... |