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| Black Diamond Cones for speakers? I have brass cones presently & yes they'll certainly mark your wood floors. Haven't tried the BD's under my speakers although I do have pairs of 3's & 4's around for experimentation. Mainly I just want to suggest that if brass or aluminum ... | |
| NAD owners: help with speaker selector problem Dave are you trying to use the speaker selector switch *backwards*? Selector switches are normally connected with a single source component (receiver) as the input, & then you'll have two or three pairs or speakers on the switched output sides... | |
| How to wire a powerful amp with two speakers to avoid damage Paul (& Angela) the amp would barely be working hard at all & probably wouldn't get much warmer than it runs at idle dissipation. You can in fact operate very high powered amps into low-wattage speakers without doing any harm at all, provi... | |
| How to test those NOS tubes I'm not a big tube fan myself but I recall reading somewhere that the performance parameters Mr. Detlof wants to measure are available from a "curve tracer" (one made for tubes of course) which sweeps grid voltage & plots graphically vs. plate... | |
| Ultimate Outlet Chang or Power Wedge (1) My initial experience with power conditioners (Chang in fact) was quite worthwhile. (2) Everything improved even more when I installed dedicated line powering the full chain of AC conditioners & upgrade AC cords, etc. (3) Use caution when ... | |
| loose tubes Dekay the "cloth" that you're remembering is called "crocus cloth" which is available at good hardware stores, but not just any generic home improvement shop. It's an extremely fine abrasive which I use to burnish my AC cords' plug prongs to a shi... | |
| Which McCormack How would a factory "Deluxe" model then compare with an "SMC upgraded" product? Is the Deluxe comparable to somewhere between Rev. C and Rev. B, or just where does it fit in? | |
| Bi-wire using single or two cables? One consideration regarding Audioquest biwire is that their single biwire cables are configured somewhat differently than if you were to use shotgun double runs of the same type. What they do with their spread-spectrum s.b.w. (in order to make it ... | |
| Cable TV hum and related ??'s Please refer to my archived threads on this subject; there are two easy solutions both of which have been appplied successfully by members here. http://audiogo5.iserver.net/cgi-bin/fr.pl?htech&970547491&read&3&4&Bob_bundus&... | |
| Signal or load required for break-in? "TVC15" - Sean what a great old rockin' Bowie tune; should make for some good breakin' jams! Now for those dummy loads that Tvc wants to build... I use 20 watt Ohmite wirewounds in a series-parallel arrangement to achieve an 8 ohm measurement-load... | |
| Flood of Good Classic Rock Remasters Mega thanks for your rec's these are great & I would like to get most of them for our collection too. Now a dumb question: what are these super saver releases that you're referring to & where can I order them? thanks... | |
| Signal or load required for break-in? Tv you need to have a music signal applied to the amps for breakin to occur; might as well leave them boxed up otherwise. You should load them with 4 ohm or 8 ohm dummy load resistor networks (if not using speakers) apply power via the AC cords yo... | |
| HomeGrown SSII vs. MIT Term2??? Curt I can't share experience regarding these cables but I can share an opinon. Your goal to reduce brightness/harshness is likely better served with copper (the MIT) vs. silver. Silver can tend to accentuate detail, sometimes considerably compare... | |
| How Do You Clean Your CD's? A blast of canned air for effective dusting. Soap & water for fingerprint smudges & then clean terry-towel dry, wiping from inside to outside radially. | |
| "Ringing from pre-amp Interesting reading thanks Lp. I'll clarify my definition of "tapping" vs. "banging" as referenced on the Upscale f.a.q. Obviously you don't go in there with a hammer. Go in with some thin gloves like white ones & be gentle & careful. In t... |