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| Cleaning the laser, advisable? Sean, once the disc was removed, the player recovered and has been working without obvious sonic deterioration for the last year. I decided to leave well enough alone, but I agree with your basic idea and should send it in for a health check of th... | |
| Cleaning the laser, advisable? I tried a similar product with a cleaning brush and solution after the transport manufacturer (Spectral) recommended the lens cleaning. Transport promptly went into shock, made a terrific racket and shut down. That was the first and last time I've... | |
| Power cords About Strads: every Strad has aged for a couple of hundred years and was played extensively in its lifetime. Is any new copy going to sound the same, even if made identically?About power cords: audio electronics as a whole, including power cords, ... | |
| Fuse or braker for dedicated lines? In defense of bishopwill, I'd say his reaction is mild compared to what most engineers and physicists I know (non-audiophiles) would say upon reading this thread. Okay, all of us know hearing is a sensitive affair. When something appears to be aud... | |
| Anyone ever experiment w/ better circuit breakers? Would someone like to set some percentages on this tweak? After (a) dedicated circuits, (b) hospital grade wall outlets and high quality in-wall cable, (c) a/c line filters, and (d) audiophile grade power cords everywhere (not to mention the Quiet... | |
| A/D recording suggestions and tips anyone? Depending on how far into this you'd like to go, I think it would be much more fun in today's world to record to dvd, with at least 96k/24b output. There is some assumption of video with dvd also, but , hey, it might be interesting to see what you... | |
| Best audio racks Be careful with Grand Prix Audio if you are interested in it ($$$) and try it first with your components. I have tried GrandPrix with the very fast, detailed solid state electronics I own, and found that it produces an analytic, overly hi-fi sound... | |
| DVD-A and SACD player combo In response to Tim's comment, my understanding is that the old Pioneer 2-ch universal player converted DSD to PCM, but that they got much flak for it and redesigned the new one to mimic the data handling of the Sony SACD units. This point should b... | |
| Which multichannel SACD player? Although the Sony player may sound great, it might be worth your while to check out how the new Pioneer universal player (DV-47A) compares before deciding. A universal player, if it can be brought up to the same quality standard (mods?), would in ... | |
| Levinson: 20.6 or 33H? I own Avalons and previously owned Wilson 5.1's. I've heard the 20.6's on the 5.1's, tho not on the 6.0's, and IMO the dark-sounding 20.6's are wrong for both of your speaker choices. The 33H's are a reasonable mate for the 6.0, be sure to hear be... | |
| Anything exciting at CES? Vegasears and Sean, The Apex was designed as a mid-lo end player, the Pioneer is not. The Pioneer, and the Apex too, use separate chips for DSD and DVD decoding , so there is no problem at all doing the digital decoding properly (verified this wit... | |
| Will people buy Snake Oil? And what in the world does the above discussion have to do with EE?Sorry Dr. Troll, you are out of your field. | |
| how to best a/b cables If both the Linto and the line stage have selector switches, then it is an open circuit. If the Linto does not, and both output terminals are always hot, then the presence of the second set of cables presents a slight load at the Linto output, whi... | |
| Help/Major Problem If you have a voltmeter with a fine enough scale to read the output voltages on both the preamp and amp, and a cd with a sine wave test tone, you can play the cd, then step the gain switch on the pre, and measure the right channel output, then the... | |
| Will people buy Snake Oil? You need to treat it cryogenically first. |