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| EAR 834 owners-help with a few basics The tube cages have to be removed from the inside after removing the bottom chasis plate. You will see three pairs of screws on the bottom of each of the two outter circuit board. Unscrew ONLY THE MIDDLE PAIR!!! (These screws have retainers and sp... | |
| Digital Stylus Force Gauge: Which One?? Better be careful with discussions in the open like this. Herr Ashcroft might think that you're REALLY measuring your 'rocks' with amazing precision, and ban digital stylus gauges as "drug paraphernalia" and raid this website. "I vant za names, un... | |
| Cork as an acoustical ceiling block Whatever you use, MAKE SURE THAT IT'S FIRE-RETARDANT (or is treated with a fire retardant spray)! As the tragedy in Warwick, R.I. showed, some accoustic material can ignite and burn like napalm, while also spewing a variety of toxic fumes (phosgen... | |
| Australian LPs and CDs Inna, I was refering to CD's, not vinyl when I commented that Japanese pressings were alittle anemic in the bass region. I have a Japanese 12" 45 RPM pressing of Frankie Goes to Hollywood "Relax" that is one of my test/demo vinyls. Truly AWESOME! | |
| The Worst Speaker you have ever heard. Avantgarde. I've heard them several different times, and I don't know what all the fuss is about. Looks like something out of the movie "Barbarella" and sound like a big honky megaphone! Supposedly, amp matching is critical, but after hearing them... | |
| Australian LPs and CDs As a general rule, I have found the Australian pressed CD's are consistantly the best sounding CD's! British, Dutch, German are usually better than American CD's (but then, again, doesn't every other country press better CD's, as a general rule ?!... | |
| CD Player newbie questions Some short answers (in no particular order):1) "redbook" is the name for a standard everday CD (16 bit/44.1 kHz sampling rate). There are other bit/sampling rates on DVD, DAT (digital audio tape), and SACD. The bit/sampling rate determines how muc... | |
| Desperately seeking the elusive tube sound Marakanetz, I agree...EI Yugo's are a good tube, especially since they are a great choice for power tubes (over Soviet and Chinese). And they're good to go, right out of the box. The trouble with NOS tubes (besides the scarcity and cost...and agai... | |
| Help: low Maintenance Tube Amp short list. I highly recommend the Atma-sphere M-60 Mk2.2's (and so does T.A.S.)! Ralph's equipment is VERY stable, no output transformer (but you would want a speaker with around 8 ohm impedance or higher) and has the sweetness of tubes, with the bass punch ... | |
| Desperately seeking the elusive tube sound Marakanetz, I just wated to clarify your statement. If your are talking about a TUBE POWER AMP, then the most critical (as well as affordable) sound comes from the low level driver/input tubes. A VAST sonic improvement can be gained by replacing t... | |
| Best Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Leftistelf, it's PDQ records in Tucson, AZ. Literally tens of thousands of used vinyl LP's, 45's, CD's, VHS & DVD movies (even old 8 tracks & cassettes)! | |
| Is 2 channel dead? Paul is dead...2 channel is not! | |
| best way to clean record?? Steel wool pad, and Drano! Works best on "The Captain & Tennille" vinyl! | |
| Best Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Well, a'int that weird! I just put on "Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Masters Collection Vol. 2" not but a few minutes ago! This CD gives a pretty good overview of the artists on the Dancing Cat Records label. Next time I'm at the used vinyl store in m... | |
| VTL 750 Reference VS. Atma-Sphere MA 2 MK 2.2 Is this a trick question, or an attemp at humor?! The Atma-sphere MA MK II.2 (now upgraded to the MK II.3) and the VTL-750 are in two different leagues!!! Comparing the Atma-sphere to the VTL is like comparing a Porsche to a Yugo! If you check out... |