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| Can I use Contact Cleaner? The short answer is yes- its worth a shot.But beware- don't use a contact cleaner that leaves a residue! DeOxit in the red and black can would be a good choice for this. | |
| Caps and Tubes You might want to get the filter capacitors replaced. These are not the film caps that have been mentioned so far.The filter capacitors are electrolytic and after a couple of decades they are often failing. It is possible for their failure to also... | |
| Best headphone amp for classical music CDs? Electronics don't care what you listen to- and there aren't any electronics of any sort that favor classical music (or any other music for that matter). This is a very well-established myth. You just want to get a good headphone amplifier. | |
| Amp/Preamps vs. High end AV Receivers I've not found that inexpensive speakers mean that there isn't a benefit from better electronics. They seem to benefit quite a lot.Regardless of what is being played- HT, music videos or 2 channel, my prior comments apply regardless. In a nutshell... | |
| Reel to Reel Tape Frequency response: 30Hz to 30kHz (15 ips); That's 10K above audibility.FWIW, LPs can do 15Hz to 45KHz; the lower limit described by tone arm mechanical resonance and the upper end by the intentional frequency limitation found in the circuitry of ... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? ^^ +1 | |
| Preamp help for First Watt J2/ZU Omens combo Your amplifier is balanced, so a preamp that drives a balanced output would be a good place to start. Given the distortion character of the amp, which is very good, I'd go with a tube preamp but finding a balanced one in your price range might be ... | |
| Amp/Preamps vs. High end AV Receivers When you have separates, the equipment does not have to share power supplies. This reduces intermodulations and for that reason alone allows for better sound. But there are additional benefits- frequently separates have better power supplies, bett... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? @invictus005I stand corrected- I was not aware that anyone had combined a class A and class D amp in the same circuit. What you may not know is that we have done some class D work as well and have our own patents. | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? seems like you’re claiming no amplifier designer knows how to design an amp that will be just as good driving a 4 ohm load as driving an 8 ohm load. Am I correct? I don’t think you speak for all amplifier designers out there.@dracule1Yes, you a... | |
| Best Preamp New or Used up to $3,000 ?? The Atma-Sphere MP-3 is a fully balanced fully differential tube preamp with a direct-coupled output. Since your Cary has a balanced differential input, the MP-3 would have a leg up over the others mentioned here, on account of the fact that while... | |
| Reel to Reel Tape well that’s what you like to think that just can’t happens no matter what because the LP signal must be " proccessed "/pass through something to your R2R and that pass though something only can degrades the LP signal. or explain why is not sign... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? A really good tone arm is a really nice investment- the bigger your record collection, the better.The ability of the arm to properly track the cartridge is far more important than which cartridge you use. If the cartridge tracks properly then your... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? Your argument that apogee would sound better if it were higher impedance is false based on imperial evidence. Case in point the 1 ohm Schintilla sounded better than 4 ohm Schintilla, as long as you could find an amp that could drive 1 ohm load... | |
| Horns: Why don't they image well? @kosst_amojanHorns have to get pretty enormous to really play bass. My speakers play a compromise on that- they use TAD 1602s (15", free air resonance at 22Hz, 97 db 1 watt 1 meter). They are set up with two woofers per cabinet. No problem playing... |