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| Every make a purchase you truly regret? Quad989, not the performance, though a bit darkish, its a true Quad, but its reliability and its interim noises: Popping, spitting, splurting, farting, sizzling, you name it. Raising the room's humidity helped and to be fair, there are plenty of o... | |
| how to convert sunfire tube pre to 220V operation? I am not familiar with your unit, but if I were in your shoes, I would unplug the unit from the powerline, wait about 15 minutes for the powercondensors to discharge and open it up to see, if there is a simple switch for changing voltages. If ther... | |
| How can I shield cables from interference? Perhaps you should drop our Sean here an e-mail with that question about conductive nylon, because I believe there are certain drawbacks with the normal metal mesh being used. Unfortunately I don't know which. I've been using home brewed pc's with... | |
| How can I shield cables from interference? Sure, should be no problem as far as I can see. I just find the first solution a bit more simple and less wires hanging around.(-: | |
| Biggest value for the Dollar? The best deal and exeeding expectations: A pair of Jadis 200 mono amps bought last winter.Full retail: A pair of Maggie bass panels bought in the late 70s, early eighties, still driven today with a pair of Krell 300 monos,(Audiogon, also exeeding ... | |
| How can I shield cables from interference? The idea you mention is a good possibility. You have to solder a bit of wire from the shield to the ground pin of your powerplug which goes into the wall. The end , which goes into your gear, you'll have to leave open. This works only however, if ... | |
| What's more important; sound or brand name? Well spoken Psychicanimal and Trelja! Yes often we are tempted to be hypocrits, who wants to admit that he's been sold snake oil by "hype"-crits anyway...... | |
| OTL amplifiers Tubegroover, Harvey DID have his inspired moments, which this "child" must have sprung out of. I alas, was not that lucky. By the way, I would imagine that this combination, you've mentioned, must sound absolutely heavenly..... | |
| What's more important; sound or brand name? Zaike, thanks for getting me unto Paulwp's post. I also feel that he is dead right with his final statement. It was Sean who first pointed out in these pages, the difference which exists between audiophiles and musiclovers. Possibly the latter are... | |
| The miracle of the turntable? Nice story and nice thoughts Zaike! My audiophilia started when I was three. That was in 1936. I had one of those "grammophones", which you had to wind up with a handle and a few shellac disks, which I used to cherish. I still remember my wonderme... | |
| OTL amplifiers Fuzzy feeling....I loved that. You are a lucky man, Wellfed. Hope you have it again and again and off the same sources! Clueless, yes, those were wild and reckless days, there was hype of course, as always, but it was less brash, less cynical and ... | |
| OTL amplifiers Clueless and Tubegroover, nice posts! Thanks!P.S. Ever had a Futterman blow up on you ?Those were the days...today, as TG has noted, the amps are much more reliable.Cheers, | |
| What's more important; sound or brand name? I could not care less about brand names, there are in fact well known products with lots of prestige, which I don't consider particularly musical and would never buy. I buy, set up and tweak solely by ear and according to my personal taste, which ... | |
| Too much Right Zaike, and it comes out especially, if you mention the word "Spectral". (-; Cheers, | |
| Too much Marakanetz gives good advice, but then it does not seem to be the VTA, if fiddling with the tracking force does not help, try cleaning all your connections, including those at the cartridge. Don't laugh, please, I've heard "ss"sybilants turn to sy... |