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| Joule - Electra: Just How Hot?? I bought a pair of Grand Marquis 160's about nine years ago and found them to be almost bullet proof. Except for two power tubes that needed replacing all the tubes were original. I had to replace a couple of fuses. Finally the Variac burned out a... | |
| Turntable in cabinet I have all my equipment in a cabinet. I replaced all the cheap MDF shelves with thick Maple shelves and lined the cabinet including the bottom of the shelves with self stick damping material that I bought from Parts Express. It seems to do the job... | |
| Dedicated line help If you go with two or three lines make sure that all are on the same leg from the breaker box otherwise you may run into ground loop problems. | |
| Documentation for Well Tempered Turntable? Try Transparent Audio. I believe that they were the original distributors of the WTT. Or you could try George Stanwick of Stanalog audio. | |
| Two quick record cleaning methods - enough? "AI Water" is Audio Intelligent water. It is a commercial product of supposedly lab grade water. | |
| Stylus Force Gauge If you are using an MC cartridge make sure the Shure :-) is not magnetic. The older ones were. I am now using a Canrong digital but the test reports give the one sold by Steve Blinn on Agon the highest ratings. | |
| Help in isolating a TT with spring suspension. Or you could try an Arcici Airhead. I had one under my Weel Tempered Reference for many years and it worked well. Basically it is a wooden platform floated on three inner tubes. | |
| the tough question: Which preamplifier? and why Agree with the CAT pre but would also consider A Joule pre. | |
| Help with creating 12V trigger For remote power on off of my amp I use a unit made by Zenith that I bought at Home Depot. The unit plugs into the wall outlet and then the amp plugs into this. The remote works by RF so it can be used behind closed doors. | |
| Which Blue Ray player to buy ? Wait for the new Oppo player. It will be released soon. See AVS forum for details. Don | |
| Right Angle AC Plugs Try Monoprice. | |
| Make your own vacuum tubes Probably the most amazing video I've seen. Let's get together and finance this guy to make true audiophile tubes. | |
| Do you leave CD players with tube outputs on? Thanks a lot Al and Raquel for your informative posts. I have and Audio Aero CDP and it is left in standby all the time which means that the two tubes are receiving power 24/7. I also have an 8 year old OTL which has not had power removed from the... | |
| Dedicated Circuit with Two Prong Plug? Look up On oneleg or two legs in Tech talk. You want all your dedicated outlets to be in the same phase. Usually this means the same side of the breaker box. Don | |
| Dedicated Circuit with Two Prong Plug? Kennythekey: If you are running more than one dedicated line make sure that they are on the same leg in the breaker box, otherwise you may have different ground levels. Don |