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30 foot long Balanced Cables to Balanced/RCA Adapters into Amp's Stereo RCA inputs?
Use with a shorter cable?Use a cable you have laying around? 
30 foot long Balanced Cables to Balanced/RCA Adapters into Amp's Stereo RCA inputs?
lewm,IF I stay with the long run, I will probably upgrade to the Jensen.IF, without a proper transfer box, it defeats the advantage of Balanced, why do they make and sell these? https://www.amazon.com/Cardas-Audio-Male-Adapters-MRCA-MXLR/dp/B00VMV... 
Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again
I did that. It never occurred to me: he doesn't have any current listings, so nothing came up.I was looking to find his profile: approval rating, sales history, evidently has sold 360 items,nothing came up. i_quadius  
Tube Amp Doctor tad black plate KT-88
I don't know, I'll just chime in that when I changed from 6550's to KT88's, I definitely preferred the KT88's, even though the 6550's sounded darn good. 
30 foot long Balanced Cables to Balanced/RCA Adapters into Amp's Stereo RCA inputs?
clearthinker Big Thinker.1st, Two units? That is not in my DNA.2nd, the lowest current price for BDP-105 is $950, that’s the one I bought for $900. The Darbee unit (even better video?) is another $100. typically.https://www.hifishark.com/model/opp... 
30 foot long Balanced Cables to Balanced/RCA Adapters into Amp's Stereo RCA inputs?
Ralph:what choice would you have made, 22 awg or 16 awg? 
30 foot long Balanced Cables to Balanced/RCA Adapters into Amp's Stereo RCA inputs?
nekoaudioThanks for the info. This whole thing is going to be: fun/informative/PITA. I already pity my knees, back, brain, ears, and relationship after I send Donna into the crawl space. I am lucky, she loves me, music, has been there all the way ... 
30 foot long Balanced Cables to Balanced/RCA Adapters into Amp's Stereo RCA inputs?
thanks everyone,I finally understood a simple XLR/rca adapter defeats the advantage of using Balanced,so, it's balanced for 35 lfinto this conversion box, which maintains the advantage of balanced for the long run.https://www.amazon.com/gp/produ... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
slawthere is some pretty high guitar playing on Melissa, I noticed the same thing on a Pretenders LP, I went back and forth, concluded that is what/how they played.1st impression can be ’too bright’, ’not enough bass’ but play your Cd version, I t... 
Recommendations for a modestly-priced audio system?
You need to get some respect for her Vinyl, then help her, make her understand a phono equalization stage needs to be between the cartridge and any ’line level’ input.TT, cartridge, alignment of cartridge, stylus are all questionable.My approach:1... 
Have I got the wrong amp? or the wrong speakers?
It’s the receiver, it's sending near full volume at low setting.50 wpc and speaker’s efficiency 88 should not be too loud at low volume level.speakers 88 efficiency cannot make 'louder' volume by themselves.  
Equalization for vinyl nirvana
Phono preamps definitely sound ok, good, great, and I advise having the option of return for any phono preamp. However, what you are describing/intending is far from normal. I agree, something else is wrong, additional eq after RIAA phono eq shou... 
30 foot long Balanced Cables to Balanced/RCA Adapters into Amp's Stereo RCA inputs?
btw,I had to choose between 22 awg OFC or 16 awg Pure Copperconsidering the 35 ft length, I chose 16 awg pure copper.I read somewhere that the % of purity between Pure and OFC is very slight, the difference in conductivity hard to measure actually... 
30 foot long Balanced Cables to Balanced/RCA Adapters into Amp's Stereo RCA inputs?
thanks everyone, I finally understood a simple XLR/rca adapter defeats the advantage of using Balanced,so, it's balanced for 35 lfinto this conversion box, which maintains the advantage of balanced for the long run.https://www.amazon.com/gp/produc... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Oh yeahSeller packed the $10. LP very nicely (better than I do)Craig Moerer Records by Mailjust checked, he's got over 100k listings on eBayhttps://www.ebay.com/sch/craigmoerer/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=