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| Need help w/ Audible Illusions M3A Trailrunner:You can pick up low noise Reflector 6h23/EB's from ATSI Tube for aprrox. $45-$50/matched pair (not certain of the current price). They are dead quiet and work quite well in the 3A.I tubed my friends 3A with ATSI's in the line stage and... | |
| How Do You Stack Your Equipment? Nrchy: I will be doing pretty much the same thing. It cannot be good to have hot tube or other amps located below CD players, DAC's and TT's (heat rises).I decided to place my tube amps/preamp above the rack on separate wall shelves. I'll use the ... | |
| No Ground on Thorens TD 145 MKII + some questions If it is a typical Thorens "TD" design there should be a single tiny screw located towards the center of the bottom. Removing this screw will release a pot metal brace along with the inner platter.This screw is also "generally" what the external g... | |
| Have you ever deceived your wife-audio purchase I recently picked up some cat toys (little balls with a bunch of rubber tentacles sticking out of them) that my wife assumed were for the new kitten to play with.The truth of the matter is that I intend on tacking them to the inside corners of our... | |
| Good speakers for Gaincard under $1500? Hi Viggen:Yes, I use the 47 Labs cable in single runs (your calculations are correct).I did not notice any difference in the sound between 3' and 12' speaker cables (tried both on a near field system that I used to have in the spare room). I do ho... | |
| $10 / foot speaker wire Hi Lee:I leave small 1/8" tabs on opposite sides which can be pinched "in" prior to attaching the RCA in order to increase the grip.I am not even certain if this makes a difference in the sound (as I have not A/B'd like IC's with and without this ... | |
| $10 / foot speaker wire Miser:I was able to locate two packages of the RS RCA's that I use yesterday. The price has gone up $1 per pack and the stores said that they do not know which version will arrive with the next shipment from their warehouse.Both shops had stored t... | |
| Classical, Jazz, or Rock? Rock, classical and jazz covers approx. 500 albums (out of a total of 3500 CD's and LP's). A guestimate is that 50 of the 500 are R&R, 350 are classical and 100 are jazz. The other 3000 albums would then be "other" music. | |
| $10 / foot speaker wire Sean & Wise:The ones that I use are #274-321, however they look different than the part depicted @ RS online (the plastic cap is a different shape anyway).I have never seen the ones with the soft plastic strain relief. I hope now that I will b... | |
| $10 / foot speaker wire Miser:It's difficult to say as you have had results that are probably fairly close to mine with the cheap non plated RS RCA's.I wonder though if we are all talking about the same RCA's. The ones that I use come in an 8/pack (small plastic bag) and... | |
| $10 / foot speaker wire CDC:12 ft. is the maximum length recommended by Mapleshade, otherwise the (+/-) leads need to be separated by 6" to 12" for it to sound as intended. Pierre once offered to supply the cable to me in this form (non-twisted), but this was some time a... | |
| $10 / foot speaker wire Sean:I have only compared the cheap modded RCA's (in DIY designs) to my 47 Labs RCA's and to some that were Kimber, I think.I forgot to mention that I also ditch the plastic screw on covers. Perhaps you are confusing these with the RS Gold RCA's w... | |
| $10 / foot speaker wire CDC: Did you ever try the magnet wire?I just finished a set of speaker cables which are single runs of Chimera Labs 25.5 gauge magent wire running through 18 gauge Teflon tubing. The wire was inexpensive (purchased a 100 ft. roll) and the Teflon t... | |
| CD getting as good as LPs - recommendations Hassel:Never heard of XRCD (good luck finding Charles Trenet performing his composition "La Mer" in this format:-).I find Red Book CD's to be (in general) inferior to LP's. That said, I own 1500+ RB CD's and 2000+ LP's (I'm a sucker for the music,... | |
| Good speakers for Gaincard under $1500? Hi Viggen:Not certain about the cable. I have listened to DIY speaker cables made from CAT 5 before, but the design was a complex one that killed the music compared to the simplistic speaker cable that I am used to (did not pay much attention to t... |