bruceofcleveland
Responses from bruceofcleveland
| power conditioner gdhal, you have been told the truth ... nothing will protect you from a direct hit except unplugging ... talk to people who have had every electric device in their home fried, no matter on or off ... I once saw a service panel blown off a concrete... | |
| Downsizing from VPI HW-19 Here's what I did (flamesuit on) ... same table, 12.5 Memorial arm, etc. ... got tired of the urge to tweak and play, and removed everything except the motor ... bask in simplicity ... move motor over, and connect motor to platter via dental floss... | |
| Reliabilty, Keeping Equipment Powered on or off? My Rowland Cadence / Coherence preamp/phono doesn't want to be powered down, in fact there is nothing in the manual about turning it off, ever. Worse, if you power it down, you have to go through a whole blah-blah to start it up again properly, vi... | |
| Viva, no longer a fan Grey market support has been decided by the Federal courts, and been all the way to the Supreme Court.As a manufacturer, you’re not required to support a product that is "materially different" than what is intended to be sold in that market. But y... | |
| What's the deal with idler turntables and do they have a place in modern HiFi? Okay, here's another version of the question...I have a VPI TNT IV, which came with a single idler flywheel, (not the extra three you sometimes see around the edge; apparently, there are quite a few versions of TNT). The base has three holes for t... | |
| Jeff Rowland battery preamp - powercord influence? When you select battery-only on the Coherence II, it's really not detectable ABX with the Coherence II itself, probably because the other components (CD, whatever) aren't running on battery ... but going battery-only IS a clear (pun intended) impr... | |
| Jeff Rowland battery preamp - powercord influence? Coherence II has a very nice, USA-made, generic 12-3 power cord. Like you'd get with a nice bench power tool or computer power supply; it's not flexible like you'd get with a hand-held power tool.Even though it supposedly runs on the batteries, yo... |