brianhutch
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| Selling to Canadians Ask for the money in the currency of your choice.At this moment the US doller is about 5% stronger than the canadian.Most europeans want Euros you are an american get US dollers.Wire transfers cost money usualy to the person recieving the money, a... | |
| Sonic Frontier SFL-1 Signature Preamp - Broken? Google tube audio repair bay area and you will get lots of addresses.You live in one of the best areas of the world for expert service.For sure have it looked at.I have never had any work done down there but Nick Gowans name has been featured favo... | |
| What's the + and - of the 12" Tonearms Issue 51 of HI FI+ features a comparison of three 12"arms the Vpi 12.7,Kuzuma stogi 313 and the Schroeder reference.Roy Gregory talks about the theory longer arm lower tracing error and the bad things higher cost,higher effective mass and inertia ... | |
| Buying from Canada a hassle for you too? I live in British Columbia and ship to the US often and have not had complaints from any buyers at all.I live close to the border and small items such as tone arms I hand carry over the border and ship from Washington state.I find your comments ab... | |
| Selling to someone in another country I am with Rambone on this one.And buying from another country may be fraught with NAFTA and customs and brokerage issues.But surely selling is just a matter of concluding the deal getting the money agreed on and popping the sucker correctly addres... | |
| Anyone ever load a Shelter 501 II at 300 ohms? Hi OzLooking at your system I see you have a K+K pre amp and this uses a lundahl transformer for moving coil step up. Normaly you would load the secondary side of the transformer by placing a high quality low wattage resistor across the secondary ... | |
| What receptacle for 240V 20A in the States? Just looking through the Hubbell catalog for Nema6-20r hospital grade duplex recepticals and brown is HBL8400 Ivory is HBL84001.These are rated at 20 amps 250 volt.The matching plugs areHBL8576E in white ergo grip.HBL8464V which is the valise styl... | |
| Looking for an integrated tube amp USA or Europe Look at the crdevelopments site www.crdevelopments.com they have a good range of integrated amps.They are made in the UK and even have a couple with built in phono stages.If your son has efficient speakers the Audion products also sound great.The ... | |
| Attenuator recommendations If you go to www.goldpt.com you will find on page two very detailed explanations about the pros and cons of the resistor types series, ladder stepped and shunt attenuators.In my opinion the ladder stepped type[although more expensive would be the ... | |
| ARC LS2 - replacing the Alps pot Look at the bentaudio website [www.bentaudio.com] John has a complete motorized stepped attenuator kit available for $200.You will also have to choose from either Gold point,dact or Shallco switches [any of these will provide better performance th... | |
| Which Phono Preamp for my System???? Why not consider a Sonic Frontiers phono 2nd hand? They stretch your budget a bit but they do have a very good MM all tube gain stage good for all moving magnets and most hi output coils which will cover your present requirements.If you fall for a... | |
| Is Digital actually better than Analog? Having read and enjoyed this thread so far I feel that it must be said that only well recorded discs either vinyl or polycarbonate sound good and all badly recorded discs sound bad.The people in the recording studio have a far greater effect on ho... | |
| What cartridge for my SME 3012 I am not sure if it is the absolute best cartridge,but I have an ortofon spu royal on my SME3012 and from all I have read and personal experiance its a very good match.This combination is trouncing the nottingham anna 12" and koetsu black combo mo... | |
| Where can I find speaker feet? You could also try falcon acoustics here in the UK.Their prices are in pounds sterling but they have quite a good selection this is the accessories page.Check shipping cost first but dont think prices will be out of range.http://www.falcon-acousti... | |
| Any reccomendations for amplifiers for my Quad 988 I am using vac 70/70,s with 989,s and they perform very well.Have you listened to both output taps?Are the Quicksilvers plugged into the power plant?I tried one of the latest ps plants and it helped the cd player but created congestion when either... |