devinplombier
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| Local pickup for speakers - should I let the buyer in the house or use the the garage? Once I went to look at HT speakers from craigslist. The seller lived in a forlorn subdivision that even google maps was confused about, but eventually I got there, rang the doorbell, the guy swung the entry door open, and lo and behold the speaker... | |
| Local pickup for speakers - should I let the buyer in the house or use the the garage? There you have it, average ordinary retirees more paranoid than a homeless tweeker at the end of a four day binge. | |
| Is AI going to kill Hifi? @pindac You make a good point, however history has a way of repeating itself. Early computers were the size of a warehouse and needed their own electrical substation, whereas today your smartphone runs 16 or 18 hours on a tiny charge, it fits i... | |
| Duroch Capacitors @yukio It looks like Prima Luna likes to private-label some of their components: Duroch caps, Prima Luna-branded tubes, etc. As has been pointed out already, those caps are probably just rebranded by a legit manufacturer, in the same way the ge... | |
| Is AI going to kill Hifi? The other day I was bored so I fed the AI a schematic and asked it to tell me all about it. It told me it was a positive / negative dual rail linear power supply, which was correct, and it went on to praise the discrete-transistor regulation stage... | |
| Old SS amps Techs who work on high-end gear are scarce, and really good ones are rarer than flying pigs. They (justifiably) command high rates. The downside of this is that at $100+/hr it doesn’t take long for a repair to become economically unfeasible, or t... | |
| Old SS amps @invalid Of course, although it’s always nice to know that if it does it’s less likely to take your speakers out. In any event, I would definitely recommend a sensible preventative maintenance program. Out of curiosity, which Krell do you have? | |
| Selling towers - keep getting bad actors/scammers when doing local pickup only. If cash is an issue, how about a cashier's check? Forged cashier's checks are all over the place. Of course you can call the bank to verify. Oh, it's 6 pm! The buyer was held up in traffic | |
| Old SS amps @ronmen No worries, these are good questions. I don’t have a strong opinion as to whether an amp used daily for 30 years is more likely to need a recap than one that has sat unused for 20 years because caps will deteriorate in both cases, albei... | |
| Where to invest the most in the "digital chain"? I have experimented with a variety of cables and purifiers in the path and have sent them all back Excellent! Monies for such are better spent on liquor. | |
| Is it possible to really know what you're doing? And no matter how deep you go, you’ll never quite reach the bottom. Oh, many folks do! And then they keep digging. @lanx0003 Playful sarcasm aside, your post is right on point. | |
| Old SS amps @ronmen The idea of the variac is to let dried-out caps reform progressively and spare them the full blast of inrush current while in a compromised state. So going back on the variac at this point is unlikely to make a difference. Re question 2... | |
| Old SS amps @ronmen As stated above, gear stored for many years should not be plugged into the wall. It needs to be visually inspected and if everything looks ok then it needs to be plugged into a variac and brought up to line voltage progressively over a p... | |
| Selling towers - keep getting bad actors/scammers when doing local pickup only. Venmo, Paypal, and the like are backed by a credit card to which the buyer could contact and file a claim/ dispute resulting in the seller losing out. Yep. Ask me how I found out I'd be interested it what "details that lead (you) to cancel th... | |
| Is it possible to really know what you're doing? I would say that the first step is for a person to determine what type of speakers they prefer. That is, not brand or model; but rather speaker architecture. Is it open baffle? Planar? Stand-mount with subs? Active or passive? One of these will ... |