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| blown fuses Fuses blow for a reason. Contact Meridian for their thoughts. They don't want a user spreading negative publicity. You may wind up getting it serviced anyway, but it never hurts to listen to the manufacturer. | |
| Philosophy used in assembling your system? Keep it simple and have a system price/performance ratio for the rest of system in mind (ie, don't have one component sound clearly better or worse than other system components). | |
| $5k budget tube system What kinds of music does he plan to listen to? And how loud?Ask Louis for a recommenndation, also.Although not for everyone, I've found a Decware SE84ZS (2 w/c & much less expensive) with small group jazz, acoustic & chamber music to be mo... | |
| Modern day female jazz recommendations Do yourself a favor & bypass music by DK with an orchestra. | |
| Determining reflection points See: http://www.realtraps.com/art_room-setup.htm)I don't think this will answer all your questions, but the diagrams should answer some. | |
| New house room size opinions please........ Chadnliiz, bear in mind how notoriously difficult it is to predict sound from room size alone. My advice is to select the house first or like Jaybo suggest above "let your wife pick the house...don't even offer an opinion, or you'll pay for it dow... | |
| efficiency- hope i spelt that wright. There is a lot more to matching efficient speakers & low wattage speakers. An example is impedance. Just ask anyone with a single-driver loudspeaker. | |
| Center channel help Is sound bouncing off TV screen?What are you using for LR speakers? | |
| A question I suspect reveals a lot of ignorance... I've heard whenever a tube is on the clock is ticking. That's why I've heard that if you know you're not going to be listening for the next couple of days to power down tubes. I take it one step further with the modern tube gear I own & power ... | |
| Looking for a first Tube Amp for under $1000 What speakers do you plan to use with it? | |
| it all sounds good, but..... I'm sure you can get a CDP or transport/DAC to your liking. But it's expensive. However, so is a good turntable/arm/cartridge. | |
| Why does New York radio station sond so good? I would imagine because transmitters are located atop tall buildings. | |
| Dimmer noise EMI/RFI. | |
| SET amps and speaker sensitivity. Read "Some Insight into Proper Speaker Selection" on Welbourne Labs website. See:http://www.welbornelabs.com/recomendspeaks.htm. You have to scroll down a bit to see it. | |
| How loud do you listen to your music? Makes me wonder, too. Makes me think many are taking a best guess. Its important to separate peak reading from nominal readings. I listen about 75dB nominal with peaks of about 85-90dB. It also make a big difference what kind of music you are list... |