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| Who performs Quality Amp repair service ? IF you cannot find someone closer, according to google maps you are 5-1/2 hours away from VAS Audio in Cliffwood, NJ drop it off, stay overnight at a Casino in Atlantic City, win enough to finance the repair! Steve Leung and his son Ray are ter... | |
| Audio PC unless you know you have a problem, you don't. plug everything important into this gizmo. It's capacitors's provide enough clean juice for any musical peaks. You can fill it with bad juice, it doesn't care. garbage in/clean out, https://reverb... | |
| Speaker cutting out intermittently check the connections at the speaker ends to be sure | |
| Volume Control Too Sensitive OP, There is no reason balanced is NEEDED in a home system. IF you change to unbalanced RCA's, your preamp's max output (15v) is HALF of what balanced is (30v). Both seem too high. That may change the preamp's volume control's range enough for y... | |
| Volume Control Too Sensitive crustycoot his are monoblocks. even easier, smaller single channel device. I would definitely look for room inside, drill a hole, add a high quality volume control to each amp. I've added on/off switches to a few things, but if thinking about re... | |
| Bang & Olufsen showcases timeless design at ‘The Danish House’ Sometimes on hifishhark.com I just put in a brand name, i.e. Tandberg; Bang & Olufsen, ... some great designs you never knew about show up. | |
| Volume Control Too Sensitive My McIntosh mx110z tube tuner/preamp output is only 3 volts. With high efficiency horns, I am using 12 o'clock on the preamp, and typically 12 o'clock on the 45wpc cayin amp. then up/dn on the cayin via remote. I cannot believe 15-30v is normal.... | |
| Perimeter Ring Clamps: Yay?, Nay?, Sources?? mijostyn On lightweight TT, where instinct says 'not too much weight' I use the small and very light rubber puck that holds reels on R2R tape decks, https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/rubber-spool-holder-reel-reel-r2r-151216291 same ... | |
| Perimeter Ring Clamps: Yay?, Nay?, Sources?? pindac thanks for the reference, but both the Denon’s and JVC Victor's were flying saucer designs, have a look at my TT81 http://www.thevintageknob.org/jvc-TT-81.html Wayne says one of his ringswill fit, hard to believe, but he should know. Wh... | |
| Perimeter Ring Clamps: Yay?, Nay?, Sources?? lewm, you just don’t get my sense of humor. JP Jones name was the inspiration. I am suggesting EVERY TT101, and EVERY Jag V12 powered XJS, ever made, be Deep Sixed!!!! A monstrous sigh of relief. I believe, after many years od that discussion ... | |
| Volume Control Too Sensitive russ, IF you wanted to solve it, and IF you also liked the option of straight to the mono-blocks, how might you solve it? | |
| Perimeter Ring Clamps: Yay?, Nay?, Sources?? lewm, I am going slowly thru halcro's old thread about JVC TT101. from 2011. JP Jones, ought to be John Paul Jones, i.e. DEEP SIX the Beasts! Six Leagues Under the Sea is where they belong. What a masochistic club, you only need merge with Jag... | |
| Is SUT needed for a low output cartridge with a Gryphon Pandora & Legato phono module? SUT step up transformers should not impart sound quality, simply boost the signal strength IF NEEDED (seems you do not). You still use your existing MM Phono stage, inside a preamp like I do, or separate phono stage with it's own riaa eq, then of... | |
| Any tricks to remove drivers from a (sticky) cabinet you can use a small inside caliper, into screw hole, expand tips and pull from the screw holes, not the edge. $12. be there tomorrow https://www.amazon.com/General-Tools-454-6-Calipers-Opening/dp/B00004T7SB/ref=sr_1_13?keywords=small%2Binside%... | |
| How to secure a large power cord to a piece of equipment? Plug too loose, wrap it with a layer or two of black duct tape, Plug too tight, sand/file/shave the plug to fit in fully Cord too heavy: you need a place to attach a string/twistie/... and carry the cord’s weight. A string or twistie from a scre... |