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| What's the best and/or favorite piece of equipment you've owned? And do you still own it? Things you would replace without considering alternates?You make me realize I have several things I won’t change unless they die. Keep in mind, I’m 72, so over many years you get to keepers.As I said, I will never change or part with my speakers (... | |
| What's the best and/or favorite piece of equipment you've owned? And do you still own it? I will never change or part with my speakers, but I do change components infrequently.Now, the next thing I will never part with is my Vintage McIntosh mx110z Tube Tuner/Preamp.If trouble presents itself, It will be overhauled by Audio Classics pr... | |
| Selecting Preamp for MC452 amp seeking most enjoyable experience possible in price range I was given a McIntosh C28 SS preamp, along with McIntosh 2250 SS Amp many years ago, used for many years.I dedided to get back to tubes, had the factory certify them, sold them, then bought tube preamp, and tube amp.this article helped me decide ... | |
| New Melody Gardot release thanks,I immediately asked for it for a Christmas Gift, Donna pre-ordered it! | |
| Best SUT For Van Den Hul Crimson Stradivarius cartridge You have great equipment. My advice:I cannot tell you how many times I have been reminded: KISS, keep it simple stupid. I suggest you simply solve your signal strength issue, change nothing else now.Your original post was straightforward, and ... | |
| Do you use a Subwoofer when listening to stereo? A. TWO Channel Mode/Use of Home Theater:a1. AVR sends full frequency signals out front left and front right ONLY. a2. no center, no surround, no sub signals from the AVR outputs.a3. ALL Imaging is Phantom, created by AVR front left and front right... | |
| New or Old assume you are talking about this JBL salehttps://www.jbl.com/loudspeakers/STUDIO+590.html You can pass on both, keep looking, but for around $500. a bit more for the KEF, either is a lot of speaker perhaps stop, ask yourself, are you looking fo... | |
| Amp repair cost — is this right? Take the Long ViewThat much replacement, when done, is like buying a new 250 wpc dual mono amp. That’s not a lot of money if you think of it that way. You are paying for years of expertise, knowledge regarding parts selection, warranty ...If you r... | |
| New or Old WHY, after 6 months, is the owner flipping them? I would want an explanation I find believable. Something might be amiss. Nearby, you can mask up and hear them? If not, and cannot return, no way would I risk it.Take your most bass heavy source to ... | |
| Advice on best mid priced MM cartridge choice for Rega P3 (2016) If trying high output MC, like Hana EL, directly into MM Phono, it's still only 2mv. IF you have any hum when you turn your phono/preamp/amp volume up, I suggest sticking with MM as OP wants to do. | |
| Bookshelf speaker fix Retired, Covid Cooped UP, time to mess with hobbies, it's fun to look up equipment, they look like a nice bookshelf design.I have similar sized 6-1/2 woofers, vintage B&W. I re-did my office so I could sit dead center, and the center image is ... | |
| If you were a Castaway on the BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs what music would you have? I would want several large reel to reel tapes, strong commercial 1" width, plastic hubs that float, many battery christmas candles, many boxes of sparklers, duct tape, so I could make some floating bouys at night to hopefully be seen by airplanes,... | |
| Anyone know who repairs or rebuilds woofers? I’d like to hear them! Very specific cone design/construction.Does OEM think the current larger woofer can work in that cabinet/crossover designed for original smaller woofer? If so, you would need to remove or protect the other drivers while a wo... | |
| Anyone enjoying ROKU for classical and jazz? YesI use Pandora in the background while in my office, and find the 'Stations' feature, starting with my favorites, leads me to performers I would never discover. Then I research, find the LP that contains the content that brought them to fame ori... | |
| How many power supply devices do I need? Unless you have a known problem from the power company, I would just think of Isolation from Equipment (refrig; sump pumps; washing machine, ac; whole house fan ...), and Overload/Spike Protection.I have two dedicated circuits: isolated ground fro... |