cornfedboy
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| Favorite Designer jeff rowland: not only are his circuits works of art, so are the boxes that housem.' aj conti: his basis turntables are beautiful and constructed with very great care and very tight tolerances. | |
| Hum from Florescent light jayboard: halogen is as bad, or worse, than flourescent for use near any electronic equipment. try putting a halogen lamp near your computer monitor and you'll likely see the effect. i recommend you buy a littllite (sp?) for your turntable, which ... | |
| Favorite Cajun / Zydeco Recordings ...that should be rockin' sidney. | |
| Favorite Cajun / Zydeco Recordings i have quite a number of zydeco lp's but my favorite remains "my toot toot" by rockin' syndney. (12 ' ep on epic.) | |
| Dissapating static electricity sean is absolutely right about the power of a static charge but it's not just digital stuff that's affected. several years ago, i blew out a board in a jrdg consummate pre with a touch of my finger. ouch! and ouch again! now, out of habit, i never... | |
| components in your system albertporter: if it were software would it still be a woody? anyway, segue back to retro's question: the only thing in my "system" that is truly irreplaceable is my software, most particularly the lp's i searched for years to find. everything else... | |
| Amplifier caps it is a capacitor used in the circuit of an amplifier. simply put, a capacitor is an electronic device used to store temporarily an electrical charge. | |
| Power/Line conditioner ton1313: i have the same IEPS device on my office copier. it is not designed for audio use. BTW, sugarbrie, ps audio is not the only one out there that makes what they describe as "power regenerators." (ac>dc>ac) i have one that's about 10 y... | |
| What to do? What to do? westlake audio, which is primarily a pro sound company, makes a fabulous pair of monitors that sell for $1200. i heard them at ces 2001 played through boulder gear and truly found them among the best 3 or 4 systems i heard. they do rock as well as... | |
| Avalon Symbol speakers i have seen and heard the symbols in a number of systems here in colorado and at ces. my older son has just gotten a pair. ( full disclosure here: as regulars already know, i use avalon eidolons in my system and have owned 2 other varieties of ava... | |
| Biamplification in Mid-Fi? all of the above posts are on target. when you start to consider really useful active xovers, you take yourself waaay beyond mid-fi. one of the few i'd consider is made by fm acoustics. read: switzerland. read: expensive. | |
| Where to buy LPs online? i collect mfsl and japanese lp's, as well as classical stuff on lyrita and other european labels. i've had very good experiences on ebay. be careful, tho. deal only with sellers who have excellent feedback ratings and buy from overseas sellers onl... | |
| Call to Rowland owners. i've had a jrdg model 8 amp for the past nine years. it's been upgraded to the "ti" version but not to the "tihc." when i first bought my amp, i experienced the same sort of hum problem you describe. jeff fixed it by installing the sort of top pla... | |
| ayre V1x or Rowland 10? typo in the 2d sentence. the second "is" should be ignored. why do i never see these 'til after my post has been accepted? oh well, sorry. | |
| ayre V1x or Rowland 10? the jrdg models 2 and 10 are very different from one another, as much so as is the 10 is from the ayre. i would not buy either the jrdg 10 or the ayre without extensive listening time in my system, absolutely without exception. after all, we're no... |