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| How do you know when your capacitors need replacing on a vintage SS amp? my experience: bought a vintage McIntosh Tube Tuner/Preamp mx110z made in 1964. Took bottom off, no repairs or alterations visible. Played, sounded great. What the heck, dropped it off at Audio Classics, they replaced 10 capacitors, and 15 resi... | |
| Compact ~20WPC Tube Amp compact ________? We really know what we own or have known, My Cayin AT88 is not compact, a ’regular’ sized tube amp, 45 wpc. It had to sound as good as my Fisher 80az mono blocks made in 1958, it does, and gave me remote volume, which allowed m... | |
| Turntable purchase advice sought Seems a heck of a bargain for a TT and many improvements/parts Ruby bearing??? Anyone know about that???? Reviews of that??? You certainly could ask Kevin, Technics Guru https://www.kabusa.com/frameset.htm?/m1200.htm | |
| HELP!!!! Newbie looking for a decent 2 channel power amp in the $1,000 range re-lar-kvothe I agree, that Parasound is a great find, and it handles low impedance very wel! | |
| 2023 Audio System Wish List bounced back some listening, new friend, audio engineer, bass player, guitar collector, composer we listened, mainly guitar, highlights ’Friday Night In San Francisco’ (Al de Miola one of his favorites), Jose Feliciano ’Hey Jude’ form his 10-23 ... | |
| 2023 Audio System Wish List duh, I said right, but it's my left foot, so I can drive with my my right foot some, I'm in USA | |
| HELP!!!! Newbie looking for a decent 2 channel power amp in the $1,000 range over budget same unit, different seller with shipping, slightly over in budget often the same unit will be listed for less on reverb, etc, where seller pays less fees | |
| HELP!!!! Newbie looking for a decent 2 channel power amp in the $1,000 range Keep in mind, not only are your speakers low efficiency (87), they say 8 ohms, but they dip to 3.2 ohms. More Power, and an amp that can easily deal with low impedance. Your budget, used I suspect. | |
| SACD players that will consistantly read the SACD layer of a hybrid disk? I assume you have tried cd cleaners with little brushes that clean the laser. They have fixed a few of my friends players, one of mine in the past. IF you have a player you really like the sound of: Check on hifishark, your model(s). see if repl... | |
| 2023 Audio System Wish List tomic601 thanks for the good wishes and offer to help. Luckily it's my right foot, so I can drive some. I got home from the hospital, thinking " where am I gonna put the rolling rack" with bag of antibiotic like they use in hospital. Happy surp... | |
| 2023 Audio System Wish List jc4659 Good idea. After this finishes healing, and some bones grow back in there, I have one more surgery to remove a spacer put in there so the toe doesn't shorten while those bones grow toward each other.. I tend to grow a lot of calcium, ha... | |
| Is a highly discerning system enjoyable? I was assuming everyone had imaging down. Balance, missing in a lot of newer equipment, is a wonderful feature for occasional errant tracks that benefit a lot by a small adjustment. Remote balance is wonderful for when needed, so easy to hear the... | |
| 2023 Audio System Wish List Listen More, systems done. I'm retired, and house bound, more time than ever: but I got an infection in my foot, got in the bone, that's no joke. Now I am on antibiotics for 6 weeks, 2 weeks left. (pressurized bag in your pocket, for 2 hours each... | |
| Advice for bookshelf speakers IF you mix brands, I bought this Klipsch Center Channel , soundss very nice. Importantly, NO REAR PORT It is very efficient, thus you want efficient L/R. Your AVR will adjust volume, but within limits. Prior center channel was a Bose, l... | |
| SACD players that will consistantly read the SACD layer of a hybrid disk? If used, you want one lightly used, because the lasers do get progressively weak, then they start not finding the SACD layer. |