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| Black Diamond Racing Jade the sandwich is a valid approach; I'm not laughing at all. What you are doing is much the same as my approach. Basically I isolate my rack from below using pods & then couple the component to a Black Diamond shelf, using cones. I'm glad t... | |
| Details on wiring my house for sound Jp that box should do you fine; congrat's on picking fuses over breakers. Those Fusestat's are actually resettable screw-in breakers; notice the small pop-out in the center for resetting when they trip. There are OK for non-audio loads but use rea... | |
| Quiet fan to cool amp and preamp? I use two 4" muffin fans; one one each side of my amp drawing the heat *away* from the component. You do not want to blow the air directly onto your equipment. The above suggestion of cutting a hole in the back is a good one too. The fans that I h... | |
| How much money do you want to waste? I see that someone has turned the zoo loose again | |
| Trouble Auditioning Hi-fi Components? Play their game; make an appointment under the ruse of auditioning a theater rig. Use a pseudoname if necessary. Once you're there, humor them a bit in the theater room, then moving on to what you really wanted a bit later.Even if you don't buy fr... | |
| what did I do? channel hiss in McCormack DNA 0.5. Robert you've definitely done some damage but it's not real serious since the amp still plays. Definitely contact Steve McCormack & get the amp to him for repair. While you're at it you might consider an upgrade: SMC Audio has 3 levels of upgr... | |
| Malfunctioning Anthem Pre 1 Med this could be serious if the power transformer has failed. If only a fuse or bad electrical connection then that's another story, but you're not even getting filament supply so who knows?. If you can get the unit with a refund agreement if it ... | |
| Am I assuming too Much? Craig above mentions the objectionable surface noises of LP's; certainly a valid concern. I shared this view for decades, until recently setting up my first high quality turntable. I went straight from mid-fi analog to digital years ago, & the... | |
| Is anyone in vinyl land familiar with ADC tonearms Hi Mp: basically you need to know the effective mass of the arm & effective mass/compliance of the cartridge first. There are "general rules" as to what works best with what. I've read about this recently so I'll try to remember (for you) wher... | |
| Rowland 2 or Accuphase A50? Todd as you know, I have tried a lot of solid state & even some tube equipment. When I finally got around to buying an Accuphase that's where I stopped; there was simply no need to try anything else. But don't take my word for this; contact me... | |
| EAD support with old products Km here's the latest info that I have: I think that Boelen Electronics is the contact you need for this job.EAD was acquired by Alpha Digital Technologies, somehow associated with Tara Labs. Their Ashland Oregon # is 541-488-5209. For DAC board re... | |
| A question I'm sure you've never heard before.... Agree with Drw that speakers should come first & then build the rig around them. This has always been my preferred approach if at all possible. But you are admittedly approaching this differently, which is OK of course. Ome magical combo that ... | |
| TUNERS..anyone? regarding value for your tuner dollar, suggest Magnum Dynalab Etude, MD100 or the new MD90, or the Fanfare. But since you like your Adcom stick with that for awhile.In order to beef up the tonality you could try experimenting with different upgrad... | |
| Help with NEW MC cartridge putchase whatever you chose in the MC dept. you'll probably need a step up transformer, high output cartridge, or both. 40dB isn't a whole lot of gain. | |
| Rat Shack SPL meter calaibration search the forum archives: Sean has posted on this topic several times so it should be in there somewhere |