devinplombier
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| 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 ... | |
| Selling towers - keep getting bad actors/scammers when doing local pickup only. Like @viridian I've never had a bad experience with craigslist. The worse it gets is those folks who insist on meeting in a supermarket parking lot, which is really annoying because you can't test the gear. But then again that lets you make a sign... | |
| New electrical wiring specifications Especially the multi ground rod people you’re only supposed to have one ground rod per meter. @raysmtb1 Actually that’s not true. Code allows multiple supplementary rods as long as they’re connected to the main rod which is itself bonded to t... | |
| Old SS amps @boomerbillone What you need is a dim bulb tester, not a gas mask 😂 | |
| Old SS amps @drmuso Thumbs up from a fellow Classé owner! The David Reich designs were fantastic. I definitely have a pair of DR-3 VHC on my bucket list. Happy listening! | |
| Old SS amps @emergingsoul sadly there is no variac for wine! 😁 | |
| Old SS amps Old to some, boat anchors to others, missing the bells and whistles of modern…time spent (hobby) irrelevant, its about the sound quality. The make doesn’t matter if it’s liked and breaks ya fix it new or old. @1971gto455ho +1 That's exactly h... | |
| Old SS amps Often manufacturers would glue caps to the PCB. Although you'd like to think they did this for the sake of microphonics, the glue was there to hold the components in place while they were being soldered. Sometimes with age and heat that glue kind... | |
| Old SS amps @emergingsoul Manufacturers of electrolytics usually say shelf life is 2 years but it depends on storage conditions, mainly temperature. It's generally accepted that the rate of electrolyte degradation doubles every 10 C increase. In addition, h... | |
| Old SS amps How long will a amplifier last if it's stored away in a box? Is there a shelf? @emergingsoul The process by which electrolytic caps self-heal is suspended when not powered. Caps can become severely dried out as a result. There is no hard exp... |