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| Most reliable equipment manufacturers I've had my Magnum Dynalab FT101 tuner for (I think) about 15 years, & it's never even dropped a light bulb! These guys seem to be there for the long-haul, which means alot if you find a component you like & want to hang onto it. I've neve... | |
| Add an IEC socket..any negative effects? G13 your perception is correct ("IF the component has a 2 prong plug now - what I suspect would be ok is to connect the positive and negative to the IEC INPUT, dont connect the ground connector of the IEC input to anything"). With an upgrade/shiel... | |
| Opinions Needed: Active or passive pre Yes of course: front ends aren't typically designed to drive 2 pair of interconnects & the 'device' in between (typically just the attenuator in a passive). Elizabeth certainy you've read the threads regarding driving a SS amp with a tube pre.... | |
| SACD - Another year and ... Ehider I'd lke to know more about your group & the mod's you're doing. thanks, Tweaker. | |
| Help! My tube preamp shocked my speaker! Rethinking this one a bit: it's quite possible that the tube is going south due to some other component-failure or value-change, such as resistors / caps. If contact cleaning, tube replacements & biasing don't cure this, then have the suspect ... | |
| smoothing those sibilants... Interesting commentary Elizabeth: not extreme IMO. Couldn't agree more regarding how a nice system can sound so god-awfully horrible with an economy digital front end. Loved your cracks about earplugs & the cassette-deck filter. How about some... | |
| Bryston 3B ST or McCormack DNA 1 Bigdave you hit the nail on the head regarding DNA-1 with brighter speakers. It's a really nice matchup with my good ole' Klipsch, which are pretty revealing & can sound on the bright side. Careful system tuning is a must with these horns, &am... | |
| McCormack amp upgrade / midbass warmth? Thanks for your comments: I'm still unsure about this, but the ONLY way to determine the answer is via home audition (duh). However I'm first going to try out the Belles 150A Bartha Mod amp, at about the same $. From what I've read this Hitachi mo... | |
| Balance ?? A balanced interface, whether low-level (interconnect) or high-level (amp output) means that there is no signal-ground reference. When a differential signal swings positive on one leg it is simultaneously swinging negative on the other leg. Ground... | |
| "The Audio Critic" B.S. or what? The "boxes" are not filters per-se... The inductors, caps, R's in the networks are, to my understanding, a Group Delay Equalizer. This accomplishes the time-alignment of various frequencies traveling down the cable, such that they arrive at the sp... | |
| Anyone ever opened MIT cables? The "boxes" are not filters per-se... The inductors, caps, R's in the networks are, to my understanding, a Group Delay Equalizer. This accomplishes the time-alignment of various frequencies traveling down the cable, such that they arrive at the sp... | |
| AC Conditioners? Re: twisted (or braided) conductors - this relates to something about the magnetic flux fields cancelling each other. You'll find that some upgrade AC cords are made this way too. If you run a dedicated line this way (I did) you must run this twis... | |
| Outdoor FM Antennas Used Indoors (Urban) Might need to actually coaxially PAD the RF signal input in an environment like that. Try 3dB, 6dB 10dB etc... See if you can attenuate the weaker out-of-phase signals enough to improve things, without weakening the main signal too much in the pro... | |
| Power cord and interconnect advice Bob Cohen @fatwyre.com recommended the Custom Power Model 11 for my McCormack DNA-1. Sounded pretty good, but then I auditioned a Custom Power Top Gun HCFI which was way better although way more expensive. Better than w/o the HCFI. This heavily fi... | |
| Internal Amp Wire: Can it be improved? Rich I'm surprised you didn't mention the mod guru guy Andy Bartha. If anyone can do this job right he can, & would have a conception of the right wire to use for the application. Andy's address = 4680 SW 74th Terrace, Davie, Florida 33314 Ph#... |