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| Design an entire system for $800? ? Have him audition a Yamaha Piano Black mini system. If the room is not too large and if he does not blast music it should fill the bill.Another option (for higher volume playback) would be the integrated amp/CD player (all in one unit) by NAD and ... | |
| Where 2 buy 3x distilled water and 100 alchohol? Hi Bob: It was just something that I read @ AA along with the possibility that my old 99.953% alcohal may contain (as a bi-product) a nasty chemical, albeit in small trace amounts. I believe that this info came from chemists @ the site.As far as t... | |
| Free TWEAK that works Jadem: Interesting. I have everything on hand (an extra "stock" shelf, the Neuance shelf under the CD player and 1" bubble wrap) to try this out. Perhaps when a friend/phile stops by in a couple of weeks we will give it a go? | |
| Where 2 buy 3x distilled water and 100 alchohol? Hi Bill: Agree with Bob, but switched to 91% Isopropyl alcohal (available @ many drug/grocery stores for $1.50/Pt as it should not not contain toxins that are sometimes created during higher levels of distillation (such as is possible with the hig... | |
| Anyone else like to Listen in the Dark? As much as possible. I hide the tube gear (in a closet) and just listen/concentrate to/on the music, along with the various cat ID tags (5 cats) jingling on the food/water bowls and my wife walking through the living room (enroute to the kitchen) ... | |
| DIY speaker: braid vs twist vs straight CDC: Never tried square wire. There was a thread (in the past week) @ Audio Asylum (in the cable forum) about the use of "soft" silver 18 gauge "round" speaker wire (its use required twisting in order to get it to sound right). I prefer copper ove... | |
| Tube Preamp for Dynaco ST 70 SF: I just popped over to the tube forum @ Audio Asylum and Joe Curcio has a new board (upgrade) for the old Dynaco PAS preamps (a recent thread towards the top of the page). Don't know how much the board is, but this might be something to look in... | |
| Tube Preamp for Dynaco ST 70 Two inexpensive, but nice sounding preamps are the Bottlehead Foreplay and the Consonance T-99 (listed in the classifieds). The Foreplay is not "tuby" with the GE 12at7's that came with it, but I like the sound (will probably try Mullards next). T... | |
| DIY speaker: braid vs twist vs straight Hi CDC: A couple of layers is $5/ft (I would just purchase another 47 Labs kit, which is less expensive, if I could budget this:-).Michael Percy is @ percyaudio.com and he has a catalogue download (I use PayPal when ordering).Glad to hear that the... | |
| DIY speaker: braid vs twist vs straight (Thanks TWL)CDC: TWL pretty much covers it. Also I like and will try his "big" tubing idea on the magnet wire that I have when I set up the second system.Yes, the thin coating on magnet wire can become compromised (I always kept +/- separated with... | |
| DIY speaker: braid vs twist vs straight CDC: 18 gauge may involve using a more complex design in order to get it to sound good (it will also never sound like, or as realistic, IMO, as the smaller gauge wire, when used as speaker cable, which is what I was attempting to coax you to try:-... | |
| New tubes for SFL-1 / SFS40 Hi Sean:This is the only source that I have, though there should be others.http://www.tube-shop.com/index.aspPrices are in BPS, so maybe 1.5/$US (haven't checked lately). Includes VAT and shipping is cheap.I will probably try them eventually along... | |
| New tubes for SFL-1 / SFS40 Try Mullard or Philips Mini Watt 6922's for a "tuby" sound (these are the ones). Too many fake and/or legally rebranded Amperex's out there (the namesake was sold) if you do not know how to ID them. Also (unless your'e feeling lucky) avoid Mullard... | |
| DIY speaker: braid vs twist vs straight CDC: Pick up a spool of solid core copper magnet wire @ Radio Shack ($3.99). The spool contains three gauges (30, 26 and either 24 or 22, I forget). Try the two larger gauges (26 and the other one) in single runs (do not twist them). Twisting is f... | |
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