bob_bundus
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| Running supply voltage of 60/60 - Vs - 120/Neutral Hi Sean it appears that Luke already has his balanced power setup in place; BTW isn't your own AC supplied via a balancing transformer? I recall your traveling to (Ohio was it?) a couple of years ago due to a bargain find on 2kva transformers. Wis... | |
| Instant Karma, John Lennon or the Beatles?? I remember buying this originally on Apple 45, although it certainly wasn't considered the B-side. | |
| Running supply voltage of 60/60 - Vs - 120/Neutral in addition to improved line transient protection, your balanced AC supply line offers increased common mode noise rejection over the traditional unbalanced commercial power source. A possible downside may be an increased supply line impedance: as... | |
| Musical Fidelity X-10 Tube Buffer Stage install the device on a tape-loop of your SP11 pre. This way you won't have to suffer the additional degradation of that extra interconnect cable-pair when the X-10 is switched out, &/or you can buffer additional source equipment as desired. B... | |
| Power port, Venom, Watt Gate, or What? Obviously none of the above have experienced the amazing revelation of going from a hi-Q industrial / hospital grade $25-level outlet to the Wattgate 381. This resulted in the absolute transformation of my Accuphase system driving ultra sensitive ... | |
| Un-WARP your records didn't y'all see that recent thread re: this exact same subject regarding flattening warped records with a hot T-shirt press... The originator went into great detail about his various techniques. Another poster chimed in stating that the sun &... | |
| Belles 350a Reference, Classe 2200, Ayre V-5x, not enough info. above to render much useful feedback: I've experienced wonderful performance from an Ayre V3 (a junior to the V5) & have experienced absolutely horrible performance from the 350a. | |
| Best pre-amp with built-in phono stage under 10K? Accuphase preamps C275, or the C275V have every feature that you mentioned (except for tubes of course) and several other nifty control features as well. $10K list I got mine for about half price including the versatile integral phono stage. Tube-... | |
| Best isolation device I agree that those glass shelves must go!!! Glass sounds awful due to significant resonance glare issues; same problem with those glass front doors on equipment racks. | |
| Power Conditioners to reduce Sibilance Hi Adam: I have indeed experienced successful results in taming sibilance / glare issues via AC line conditioning. Upgrade AC cords furthered the sonic enhancements. My line conditioners are the Chang Lightspeed 3200 ($250, 6 outlets, 15 amp capac... | |
| Audiophile circuit breakers ? sounds very interesting: please post up a www hyperlink regarding these AHP breakers; I'd like to learn more?Good old-fasioned ceramic body W-series fuses are reputed to sound better than circuit breakers (possibly due to fuses having no internal ... | |
| Whats a good inexpensive passive pre The McCormack TLC-1 is very transparent & is certainly inexpensive; try to find a TLC-1 Deluxe if possible - there are even some out there with remote control. Passive & buffered-active outputs are both included.those budget models from Cr... | |
| Have you ever moved to improve your system we moved a couple of times partly because the neighboring apartment dwellers didn't appreciate our quality sound system. At one of the places that we moved into, people around the neighborhood saw us carrying in the speakers and then couldn't wait... | |
| Cats and audiophiles an audiophile spelling lesson: fazed vs. phased... Belongs posted with that other thread ["you know you're an audiophile when"] you confuse 'phased' with 'fazed'. Of course I meant the latter although I posted the former above.Yes Albert: Roxi is ... | |
| Cats and audiophiles Our cats aren't interested in the music but they all run away when it gets loud enough of course. We also have an indoor pet fox squirrel who isn't phased by pop / rock / jazz, but she freaks out at the sound of classical orchestra so I only play ... |