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| Effects of Power Outages Where You Live On average, I'm away from home 12 hours a day while at work. When I leave in the morning and there's storms in the forecast, I unplug all my gear. I've honestly never noticed any detrimental impact of unplugging my gear, or even just turning it of... | |
| Looking for some 'grass Jax2, I'm a big fan of all of your suggestions, but there's very little bluegrass in those selections. The "Oh Brother" soundtrack and the popularity of Alison Krauss has watered down the definition of what passes for "bluegrass" these days. I've ... | |
| If you were a tube preamplifier manufacturer As indicated, there are a number of very good current production power tubes. Hopefully, this quality will ultimately trickle down to pre tubes. I will say that the VAC labeled 12AU7's (not sure who makes them) that came with my VAC Musicbloc's ar... | |
| Circuit City is Closing, Liquidating I bought a Squeezebox duet at my local CC's liquidation for 50% off, which was the only really good deal that I saw. They apparently have a liquidator involved that will sell the merchandise elsewhere, so they're not going much past 30% on most po... | |
| Small sub It depends on your room size as much as anything. I use a Martin Logan Dynamo, which is a one foot cube and has a 10" driver. It works very well for two channel purposes, but it would never work in my HT setup, where I use the much larger ML Depth... | |
| What is a Home Theater Bypass The Modwright LS 36.5 is another preamp with a true HT bypass. The HT bypass of this preamp works even when the unit is turned off! The Dodd battery pre has a HT bypass that works in this manner as well. | |
| Dodd preamp battery plays 40 minutes Yes, it's $80 from Gary for a new set (4) of batteries or you can find them from multiple online sources for that price. It cost me $100 to buy a set at my local Batteriesplus store, so it just depends on how desparately you need them. They should... | |
| Dodd preamp battery plays 40 minutes my dodds been flawless except when I accidentally left it on too long got the beeps, recharged and good to goFYI, if you leave it on too long after the beeping starts, it will damage the batteries to the point that they cannot be fully recharged. ... | |
| Dodd preamp battery plays 40 minutes The batteries are bad. I went throught he same thing when I bought mine last year. Gary has been having some issues with battery suppliers and has gotten some bad ones from time to time. Call Gary, he's very responsive. | |
| Tired of Problems with Tube Equipment Five years, 3 tube amps, 2 tubed cdp's, one tube failure, no other problems. | |
| Opus 21 vs. Sonic Frontiers cd1 Darrin, what is your impression of the Ridge Street umbilical. I also have a GNSC modded Opus 21, but have been hesitant to pull the trigger on the umbilical due to the price. | |
| Can good speakers take edge off digital? Do you still have the edginess if you take the DAC out of the chain and use the Marantz only as the source? If so, the DAC may be the culprit, but if not you should probably look at the speakers, amp or cabling. | |
| "O Perfect Preamp, wherefore art thou?" The Dodd Battery pre fits the bill except for the phono pre. | |
| Philps MC 50 Mini System beats my high end setup Sounds like you've got some tweaking to do in your big rig. Honestly, with the gear you've got, something's wrong if that mini system beats it. | |
| Neil Young Massey Hall on LP Yes, very good, and yes it does. |