forrestc
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| Isolating CDP from weak wood floor If your system is on the first floor with a crawl space below, your best bet would be to buy some screw jacks or house jacks and place them between joists in question and the ground. | |
| Power problems.... Ground, dedicated lines, ect Also, Square D and others make good boxes and breakers; however, I have found that I have replaced more bad Square D breakers than any other brand. | |
| Power problems.... Ground, dedicated lines, ect My lights would momentarily dim when my neighbor's AC would kick in. I called the power company one morning and the were there by the afternoon and found a loose connection on the drop to my house. When in doubt, give you power company a call, it ... | |
| Where to get FM/AM antenna? Folded dipole antennas should still be available at Rat Shack | |
| Low Hours Phono Cartridges? . . . and what is exactly "low hours" anyway? Less than 50?100? or? . . . and how does one measure those hours? By counting sides of LPs played? Or do you just take good guess-tamate? | |
| Installing Apogee Divas w/ribbons to the outside If you haven't already, you may want to pose this very question at the Apogee Acoustics User Group forum. There are some seriously knowledgeable and friendly Apogee users there that I'm sure could shed some light on this question.FWIW, I've only l... | |
| VPI HW-19 Upgrade question SAMA or SDS? Thank you, thank you, thank you all for the great information. I've sure learned a lot from this thread. | |
| Threshold and Magnepan An SA/3 will be more than adequate. MMGs don't take much at all especially in a small room. | |
| How Many Turntables Have You Owned Not counting the Close-n-Play the folks bought for us when we were kids, I count about six.1973 - BSR something-another with a Pickering cartridge.1975 - An original AR turntable with a Shure cartridge bought from Dixie Hi-Fi (now Circuit City).19... | |
| Opinions On Mark Levinson No. 36 DAC Repair I had my 36 repaired by Levinson repair guys at Harmon. You *will* pay within about $50 of the "it won't cost anymore than $XXX.XX no matter what's wrong with it" price. Mine turned out to just have a few bad electrolytic caps due to age in one an... | |
| Turntable lamp suggestions? I'm using a AA-battery powered LED gooseneck lamp that I bought at Harbor Freight Tools for about $25. It was marketed as a small workbench lamp for close work, but you can find the same thing at Lowes marketed as a BBQ grill lamp. What's nice bes... | |
| Best and Worst Rock Concert Moments I'm not sure if it was the best or the worst, but I was one of the 32000 people who bought a $12, three-day-event ticket to Stompin' 76 in the rural hills of southern Virginia. The only problem was that 150k to 200k people actually attended! The y... | |
| Motorola transistors . . . but you probabaly won't hear any big difference by changing output devices from one revision to another. The main thing is to make sure that the bias is correctly. | |
| Motorola transistors . . . and actually newer, better, and more closely matched out of the box than the 15022/15023 is the ON Semi MJ21195 (PNP) and MJ21196 (NPN). Currently, I'm in the middle of totally rebuilding a Threshold Stasis 2 using these. Lot's of good info ... | |
| Black Gates - Standard vs FK/Non-Polars Jov, after reading over this old thread again, one thing occurred to me that may, or may not, be the cause of your less than good results after replacing the electrolytic caps with Black Gate Standards in you Threshold SL-10. Older Threshold produ... |