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| Best power cord for McCormack DNA-2 Custom Power Top Gun HCFI works nicely with McCormack. Heavy #8 gauge highly filtered & shielded cord; plug directly into ACline, as an AC conditioner is redundant & hurts the sound in my experience. Very quiet too. $800 list but available... | |
| Contact cleaners/What's good? be careful about using anything containing even small amounts of water on tape heads - they rust! | |
| Best used preamp for around $1000. . . Alan the model# is RLD-1 | |
| Hiding Tube Traps??? There's a pump spray available from PetSmart (dunno the name brand, my wife bought it recently) that has a scent which discourages the cats but doesn't bother our less-sensitive human noses. It's a nontoxic organic concoction for furniture, carpet... | |
| 47 Labs Gaincard Talk to mod guru Andy Bartha; he builds a similar custom amp & should be able to further enlighten you. 954-583-7866 | |
| Contact cleaners/What's good? Regular alcohol is not good because there's lanolin in it (an oil). Denatured alcohol is OK though; recommended on tape heads, pinch rollers, etc. so that's good for contact cleaning too. Pro Gold also contains an oil film, which, although it theo... | |
| BAT VK-30 or BAT VK-30se I recently read some commentary on this question somewhere in here. As I recall, he basically said that the 30 was more musical/euphonic. The SE was more accurate/uncolored. I am very interested in auditioning the 30 myself. | |
| Ayre V3 owners. What preamp do you use? Not sure about the Modulus' output impedance spec, but 47K sounds wrong. Perhaps you're reading the INPUT Z spec? Output impedance of most preamps is typically much less, usually around 600, 500, maybe even as low as 50 ohms. Output Z is typically... | |
| Suggestions for CD Lens Cleaner? I use a CD lenz brush-cleaning disc from Audio Source. Can't say that it improves the sound when no problems are otherwise apparent. But there was one time when the laser lenz must have been dust-contaminated because some discs were skipping a bit... | |
| Ayre V3 owners. What preamp do you use? Presently running with McCormack TLC-1 Deluxe. Nicely transparent esp. in passive mode. Auditioned a Golden Tube SEP2 which had a better stage & was rather euphonic too, but I didn't buy it as I found out that they've gone under (no warranty o... | |
| AC adapter Try Radio Shack | |
| Long interconnects or speaker cables? Tom with what brand of cables did you experience that? Curious, because if you're using network-terminated cables (Transparent, MIT) the deleterious effects of cable-lengths is supposedly compensated (I was told). Could be true? Anyway, if using a... | |
| AC regeneration and power conditioners Perhaps Dan was thinking of inserting a filtering device BEFORE the PSAudio? Yes that might help in addition to dedicated lines, upgrade AC cords, vibration control... The only way to find out though, is to experiment in your own lab. Just because... | |
| Sparking Ground Wire Agree you have some kind of serious problem, within either the house wiring or something plugged into your load. Water pipes are a dangerous place from which to take a safety ground, although many older homes were done this way. Telco used to do t... | |
| What does everyone think of shahinian? Heard the Diapason's at several shows. Must agree they are highly musical; I thought his woodwork was beautiful as well. |