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| Cable "burning": Real or VooDoo ??? I have nothing new to add but will mention the old. I burn IC's in by runing the cable music station through our VCR to the television (with the new IC's in the link). This way I do not have to listen to them and they can run in most of the day(s)... | |
| PS Audio Ultimate Outlet Eddie: Uh huh, was so. Search under "ultimate outlet" at the first forum page and you will find two previous though recent threads on the subject. The units that just started shipping are most likely the "immediately upgraded" versions. There is a... | |
| California Brownouts and equipment Sean & everybody: I just went to Global Mart and the price is still $124.95 plus $9.25 for UPS ground. I ordered another one to get it over with. I am going to try running two in tandem (the second one running off of the "digital" outlet of th... | |
| California Brownouts and equipment Sean: Bummer, that was where I picked mine up (but it's only $75.00 and not the end of the world). I think that Craig at Vibrapods offers a slight discount and will check him out. Jdwek: The HTS-2000 cleans up the power, but does not regenerate or... | |
| Blu-Tack where to Buy? Doug: I never picked up the real deal to compare (though I am comparing a piece of plastic laboratory tubing), coiled flat, to Vibrapods (under my tube amp) as we speak. One thing that you DO NOT want to try under speakers is florist's clay. | |
| Best audio racks Depending on your taste and how handy you are, you may want to consider retrofitting a piece of "real" furniture to house your components. I prefer that the electronics be "out of site" so have used a 200 year old Tansu cabinet with sliding doors ... | |
| Blu-Tack where to Buy? I picked a substitute up as well that was light blue in color and under $2.50 a pack at our local mom and pop hardware store. It doesn't stain (even old unprotected wood)and was enough to make at least 20-24 pea sized balls. If I find the package ... | |
| California Brownouts and equipment Rosstaman: I live in LA (West Hollywood proper) and have not experienced any noticable damage to our equipment. Everything is surge protected (the computer is on a RS surge protecter and an APC line conditioner) and the main Hi-fi is running from ... | |
| Bringing back the dead? Funny, I ran into three pairs of the EPI 100's (with blown woofer surrounds) in various thrift shops this past weekend. A few months ago the same thing happened with the original Advent speaker. Almost everyone that I grew up with that was into mu... | |
| Power Strip vs. Line Conditioner I also use a Monster HTS-2000 conditioner with good results in an apartment in LA. It only improves the sound in my setup. I am considering running a second one in series off of the digital power outlet of the first. I would plug my amp into the f... | |
| pwr conditioner - vans evers unlimiter Doug: What PC's came with (or are you using with) the unlimiters? | |
| Monitor Speaker Vote "Face Off"... I have listened to everything on your wish list except the Tylo's (never heard of them). My personal favorite is the SR-17's, but your favorite may be entirely different. You need to do whatever you can to audition speakers before settling down wi... | |
| Bringing back the dead? I miss my old Eico HF-81 integrated amp (the only EL-84 Hi-fi amp that I ever cared for) . I have almost bid on this amp many times on Ebay, but end up cringing and reconsidering when I add the cost of having it completely rebuilt to specs (I no l... | |
| Audiophile spending I agree with Perfect in that the ratio does not mean a lot in our case. Regardless of the system's cost, we would have purchased the same amount of source material in the same manner. The few CD'sthat we purchase at retail (or above) are things th... | |
| Audiophile spending We have purchased approx. 300 CD's in the past year. 90% of the CD's were purchased on the used market in the range of $1 to $5 each (the current going rate being a little higher now at $3-$5 each). I gave 50 or so of the CD's to my parents (all o... |