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| What happened to the AM/FM tuner??? I recently purchased a 1960 Sherwood S-2000 tube tuner for $15 at an antiques store. I replaced the broken dial string and recapped it with Sonicaps and 1 Auricap (output coupling cap) and it sounds Great! It's mono, but I really don't miss the st... | |
| No deep bass or highs: VTF or VTA issue? I looked at the specs on your cartridge, and with an inductance of only 18 microHenries it's performance should be pretty much independent of loading. The specs I was looking at (at the AudioCubesII site) simply recommend a load resistance of grea... | |
| How to diagnose the need for room treatment? Good info, Kal, thanks! To put all this in perspective, we should keep in mind that as a rough approximation sound propagates through air at around 1 foot per millisecond, varying somewhat with temperature, altitude, and other factors.Regards,-- Al | |
| How to diagnose the need for room treatment? The human hearing mechanism tends to some degree to "latch on" to the leading edges of transient waveforms, and give them greater emphasis than what may follow a few milliseconds later.Re my earlier comments on this issue, in a post in a differen... | |
| Surface Noice, yubes and solid state I see no reason why that would be true, unless: -- The surface noise is masked by the tube hiss of a poor quality tube device, or-- The tube phono stage, or other tube device in the path, somehow acts as a dynamic range expander, or-- Somehow soli... | |
| Pre-amp for $1500? Yes, Coda has made some fine gear. I believe their key personnel formerly worked for Nelson Pass at Threshold.I've been very happy with a Classe CP-60 I purchased here not too long ago, well within your price range. It has both balanced xlr and un... | |
| What should be my next upgrade? Speakers? Re cables, for a good read that was written by a person who is both a noted authority and someone who sells (non-cable) product to both the audiophile and professional markets:http://wiring.svconline.com/ar/avinstall_designer_cables_critical/index... | |
| What should be my next upgrade? Speakers? Yes, many of the Martin-Logan's have been particularly noted for their good looks. And the Source's, in particular, have an unusually small footprint for an electrostatic (or in this case, an electrostatic/dynamic hybrid), which help make them a g... | |
| What should be my next upgrade? Speakers? I should add to my previous comment that the Source's are 8db less sensitive than your Klipsch's, with similar power handling capability. So if you typically use most or all of the volume capability of the Klipsch's, the Source's would not be suit... | |
| What should be my next upgrade? Speakers? If your budget can handle around $2200 for front main speakers, you might consider the Martin-Logan Source. They have been widely raved about for transparency and overall performance for the money, and I suspect would provide a huge difference rel... | |
| What should be my next upgrade? Speakers? Those that don't mention cables can usually use better ones. Actually, they are listed in his system profile. I agree with Kal's comment, though, particularly in this price range.Regards,-- Al | |
| Safe to replace fast blow fuse with slow? could you replace standard fuse with a Slo-Blo of lesser rating? Say a 4amp std with a 3amp slo?I wouldn't use anything other than what was originally designed into the equipment. You might get away with it, but depending on how much margin is pre... | |
| How to eliminate FM RF coming thru turntable? Here's an excellent paper, dealing with rfi problems caused by ham radio systems, but providing a lot of information that may be applicable to your situation as well:http://www.audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-Ham.pdfHere's a link to the catalog of Fair-... | |
| How to diagnose the need for room treatment? Newbee -- I don't think you are missing the point, you are just making some additional points.To re-state my basic point, room effects at mid and high frequencies are heard differently by microphones + sound level meters than by the human hearing ... | |
| Running dedicated AC mains .... need advice .... Timtim,As has been said, it is essentially an absolute must to have a ground rod at the service entrance, that serves ALL runs. For reasons of code compliance, effective circuit breaker operation, lightning protection, etc. No one in this thread h... |