alonski
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| Your Worst WAF Incident Peter, thanks, I'm glad not to be the only one willing to share anecdotes like ours. The embarrassment fades quickly and what remains is a funny story from the front lines of our obsession. I'm looking forward to hearing more such stories as this ... | |
| How Long Ago Since You Cried Listening To Music? SonicBeauty-- Indeed, yet somehow she still loves me! | |
| Your Worst WAF Incident Ha! Viridian, that's what I'm talking about! Truly, hard to top. But let's give others a chance to chime in. | |
| Your Worst WAF Incident Let's see, that's two responses from members who think I'm an idiot for turning off a loud refrigerator when I'm doing my critical listening, and one guy who was disturbed by my story.Maybe an update is in order: The fridge is still loud and I wil... | |
| VAC Preamp: Is my Phono stage failing? Same here, increased coverage to $50K replacement value, but no special rider. Who do you insure with? | |
| How Long Ago Since You Cried Listening To Music? I just wiped the tears from my eyes a few minutes ago. If this thread didn't exist, I would have started it. My wife is sleeping soundly and I'm in the living room in the middle of the night spinning vinyl on my Townshend Rock 7, wearing AKG K702 ... | |
| VAC Preamp: Is my Phono stage failing? Maineiac, Thanks, I tried having my Phi 200 amp direct to the wall and it sounded great. Then I tried plugging it into a Panamax power conditioner and it sounded like someone threw a wet blanket over the sound. Then i bought the Purepower AC regen... | |
| VAC Preamp: Is my Phono stage failing? Sorry Al, I should have clarified. My two channel analogue music system is my first priority. The PurePower regenerator is on this system plugged into the first dedicated line.The other dedicated line is feeding the home theatre system which I kee... | |
| VAC Preamp: Is my Phono stage failing? The techs at PurePower were awesome, and they're in Canada, so they worked on thanksgiving! We narrowed it down to a safety ground loop. The unit is fine, as is my VAC. Seems this safety ground cannot legally be disabled, so I'm counting on my ele... | |
| VAC Preamp: Is my Phono stage failing? SOLVED! Well, almost.Maineiac, Thanks, I really wonder how much I would need to spend on an outboard tube Phono Preamp to be significantly better than the VAC's.... sounds like it might be a lot. I would love to audition the Fosgate Signature, it'... | |
| VAC Preamp: Is my Phono stage failing? Just rolled a pair of NOS Telefunken 12AX7 to replace the stock VACs. And for about 40 minutes of horrible sounding crap coming out of my speakers (how long does it take to break in new tubes?) the hum started again – it took longer, but it did sh... | |
| VAC Preamp: Is my Phono stage failing? Tpreaves, I would, but I neglected to have spares on hand.Ghasley, Thanks Geoff – I'll PM you.Maineiac, Yeah, I've been scratching my head about whether this could be a ground issue because it came out of nowhere. Just started happening a few days... | |
| Why Not More Conversation about VAC? Thanks Jwm,Here's the link to the new thread with my question about trouble with the phono stage on my VAC pre, in case any of you have some insight...http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1321838662&openmine&zzAlonski&4&am... | |
| Why Not More Conversation about VAC? Gentlemen I too bought my VAC gear because of the maturity, intelligence and quality of discourse between VAC owners on A'gon. As a "family," we seem less dysfunctional than some other (not all, some) amp owners that get a bit aggressive with in... | |
| I have a AC Regenerator. Get dedicated line too? Inna, I will do that, probably tonight. Right now, the electrician is here and he gave me a quote to run two 20A dedicated lines from the main panel to my gear (about 40 ft. of conduit) with 10/3 wire for about $600! I mentioned on this thread ear... |