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| Reliabilty, Keeping Equipment Powered on or off? One thing not mentioned. Power line transients. The longer something is kept on and connected to the AC power, the more potential for damaging power transients to destroy components in your power supplies. If you have good line voltage protection ... | |
| Tascam DA-3000 vs Benchmark ADC1 USB jeffWas wondering about that myself. I cannot make a direct comparison of two digital files in my system, but can make a comparison between a digital file made on the DR60 and the LP itself. I'll see if I can break some time free to do that test. | |
| B&W 803D crossover caps Mark:You're welcome. They are sounding exceptional right now. That 47 mFd EVO SGO midrange coupling cap is really making a difference. | |
| Spindle Holes I'm with jerroot.Do not use a drill bit, use a reamer, by hand. A drill bit can hop out of the hole and skip across your record, destroying it. Or, the flutes can bite into the wall of the hole and gouge the hole, rapidly pulling the record toward... | |
| Replacing stylus on a AT 150XML I got it back together to where the stylus no longer collapses under the tracking weight. But the sound is distorted and if I play those tracking test records I get quite a bit of distortion in one channel.Looks like the components in the suspensi... | |
| Newbie needs recommendation for ripping & storage solution with Bryston BDP-1 If you use a PC to do the ripping, get dBPoweramp software. That is what I use with my BDP-1/2 combo. I rip the CD on the PC (which is internet connected), and dBPoweramp automatically downloads the album art. It also needs the internet to check i... | |
| Parasound Halo JC-1 for Thiel CS 5i You might want to check with Parasound regarding 2 ohm loads. I believe the JC-1 is spec'd for 4 ohm loads minimum.I am driving B&W 803Ds with a pair of JC-1s, and they have a minimum impedance of about 3 ohms. No problem with those, but 2 ohm... | |
| old classic phono cartridges Recently sold a Micro Acoustics 630 for about $300 to a European (German) buyer. Stylus/tip was in good shape, but the rubber dampers (who knows)? These used a beryllium stylus and pure gold wiring. Looked into re-tipping but very few if any re-ti... | |
| How do you spot an overplayed used lp without obvious scratches etc Simple fact is you cannot tell without playing the record.I bought a supposedly "pristine" Japanese pressing of Genesis Trick of the Tail from an EBay seller who claimed to have a $10K trurntable and associated arm/cart, a VPI album cleaning syste... | |
| Bryston BDP media server a good choice today? rocky:MPD stand for "Music Player Dameon". Its just the software that plays back the music. Bryston has been making improvements over the years and to my ears, the latest version smokes the one in Loony Loones. So it's worth it to upgrade to MM ju... | |
| Audio advisor and Constellation amplifiers aolmrd:I figured someone would point out that Parasound is made in "China", but actually it's made in Taiwan, a cut above anything made in Hong Kong or the Mainland.Taiwan has been home to some of the most sophisticated electronics manufacturing f... | |
| Parasound A21 question - can I use both balanced and unbalanced input on the amp? The answer to the OP original question is NO, unless the AVR is completely disconnected from the A21 when using the balanced inputs.I have a schematic of the A21, and the #2 pin of the balanced XLR is directly connected to the single end RCA "hot"... | |
| Protecting speakers in home theatre application? I have a pair of B&W 804S connected to my TV/Ht system, driven by a Cambridge Audio 840 pre-amp and a Parasound HCA1500 DC coupled poweramp. My DVD Blu-Ray is an Oppo 95.I generally do not have problems with most materials, except for a recent... | |
| Tube preamp reliability vs SS? Tubes wear out because the vacuum degrades and the filaments burn up at higher oxygen levels in the tubes. Since you cannot keep a good vacuum forever, this is inevitable. Solid state devices can fail as well, but this is more determined by the or... | |
| Audio advisor and Constellation amplifiers Now, now, now. I have bought Parasound and Bryston products from Audio Advisor and I would not classify those products as "Chinese crap".The Vincent stuff, on the other hand is... |