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| WAF Help Please i've never messed with d.i.y. stuff myself, but i would imagine that slipping some matching techflex (or whatever brand you can find) sleeving would be pretty simple and cheap. and just leave the ends raw, rather than heat-shrinking them down so y... | |
| Good Sound under $500 you can never go wrong with paradigm (assuming they're in good operating shape, obviously). buy second hand, keep em as long as you need em, and sell them for little or no loss when you've found your "longer term" speakers.jeff's suggestion of tot... | |
| Gallo 3.1 sounds slow and veiled...why? i have heard that some people can be dissatisfied with them until they amp the subwoofer seperately, but i don't have any first hand knowledge with that.i have the reference avs (which i love), however they took a LONG time to break in. the little... | |
| what to do with my cat on my speaker grills well, please don't declaw it, most people don't know what that entails, it isn't simply "surgically" removing what we would think of as their fingernails. unless it's changed in the past few years it's basically guillotining off the end bone of th... | |
| Do you ever wonder? norah jones? really?i think her voice alone is good enough to merit success and her first two albums were great (IMO). | |
| Question re matching pre and power amp impedance.. totally agree with ajack.i've often thought of asking almarg relationship advice, i don't think there's anything he doesn't know... | |
| How to listen to the Beatles re-releases? i can hear chashmal in a previous life, 20,000 years ago in a cave in southwestern france..."meh. the proportions of that bull are way off." | |
| Rolling Stone top 100 Guitarists - Howe/Van Halen people have rioted and died for lesser things than disrespecting david gilmour thus... | |
| How to unleash the optimum power of a receiver? if it's still using the stock power cord, i would think that the easiest improvement would probably be to stick a better power cord on it (if its power cord is removable).you can't beat "my audio cables" here on audiogon for price-to-performance r... | |
| Recommended AES/EBU cables under 800 dollars if you could ever audition a van den hul "the second", i would say give it a go.while i have never actually heard the second as a digital interconnect specifically, most of my digital connections are now van den hul's "first", which is the single-... | |
| High End and cables and tin ears.... weird, part of my first post got cut off there, maybe i used some symbols that aren't recognized by the forum software...what i tried to say is that i've definitely heard some sub-100 dollar cables that sound better than some over-1000 dollar cabl... | |
| High End and cables and tin ears.... if they sound good to you, you're golden.i've definitely heard $1000 cables.one thing that a cable like a radio shack might not be able to do is prevent hum, though, i wouldn't think they're particularly well shielded or carfully soldered or crimp... | |
| B&W Speakers stringreen is the man of the moment, another +1 here. | |
| Electrical Question - dumb one - but a good one no, your 3-prong plug is fine, you just need to change out the bit at the component.you can also get adapters that will convert a 15 amp to a 20 amp if you want to try out the cord before you mod it, i've found that using good adapters on power co... | |
| Replacement CD on a tight budget? my favorite inexpensive cd player is a ps1 (the first model of them, that is, with the rca outputs - model scph-1001, i believe).you can usually get them for 20-40 bucks on the auction site who must not be named, and they are just a he** of a lot ... |