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| Allman Brothers Band -- Shades of Two Worlds I watched a DVD history of the band and was surprised to learn that Duane only wrote one song- "Little Martha".He said he had a dream and Jimi Hendrix (already deceased) gave him the song!Freaky man! | |
| Bang for the buck DAC I second the Rega DAC. It sounds a lot like music. | |
| Pre-amp causing loud hiss from speakers I purchased a used BAT VK-300SE which had the same problem upon arrival.I decided to work with the seller and had to return the unit to BAT.It was fixed and worked flawlessly thereafter.BAT said it had a bad "voltage regulator". BAT graciously fix... | |
| Parasound Halo A52 keeps shutting off / protection Per Czarivey's point: Do you have your amp on a stand or (bad) resting on shag carpet? Carpet will block air flow for cooling. | |
| Parasound Halo A52 keeps shutting off / protection First thing to do is check connections at the speaker terminals on your amp. If any connector (bare wire, spade, whatever) is touching an adjacent one, this will cause a short. First things first... | |
| what speaker new or used for 5k? That's a tough one -there are so many good speakers in this range.-Revel F208-Bryston middle T-Golden Ear Triton 1-Thiel TT 1I found the Thiel 2.4 SE at a great price (new) and find these amazing. They throw the biggest sound stage I've ever heard... | |
| Cassette deck cleaning Well, If you don't demag first, be prepared to have anything you play permanently changed. The exception to this is "Metal" tapes. What made metal cassettes popular is they require a much stronger electrical signal to record and, consequently, the... | |
| Cassette deck cleaning Rubbing alcohol on a Q-tip will work.Note: Clean the rubber wheel by holding it in place with one Q-tip while scrubbing it with another. VERY IMPORTANT! Make sure the entire rubber wheel is dry be fore playing a tape. A wet wheel may cause the tap... | |
| Interesting Article Whatthe: After 45 years of listen to records, seriously, I'm pretty sure I can tell the diff between defective vinyl and defective equipment. One type of distortion I kept noticing last night is something I call "groove lettuce". This intermittent... | |
| Interesting Article Lewm: Please specify where, in any of my posts, I suggested that anyone else but me is having a problem. Thank youUpdate: I had a "vinyl night" tonight and was very pleased.Steve Winwood: Arc of a Diver purchased in 1980. Splendid sonics and NO DE... | |
| Interesting Article No, I don't work for Meridian.Also, I'm not obsessed by every little hint of surface noise (I would prefer that it weren't there, however).But the worst of it usually occurs at the most critical part of the music."WAY DOWN INSIDE (echo: inside),WO... | |
| Interesting Article "I don't think there is anything fundamentally wrong with digital recording".Meridian's Bob Stuart would beg to differ.In the May/June Absolute Sound, His new encoding system, MQA, is explained (on a high level) and will be available for sale soon... | |
| Interesting Article I started listening to vinyl in 1956 on a Zenith portable record player. My Mother removed it from me when I learned I could alter reality by turning the record faster with my finger. My later turntables included: Panasonic, Garrard Sl-95B, Garrar... | |
| Interesting Article Hello Peter,One point, in my first post, is that distortion is embedded in the music during the molding process which creates the record. I don't think a piece of airborn dust can cause the tremendous POP heard on the (virtually new) Hendrix album... | |
| Interesting Article Czarivey: If you don't hear clicks and pops on EVERY vinyl record have your hearing checked, seriously... |