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| Fuses that matter. This might be a good time to remind folks that quite a lift in sound quality can be achieved without buying ANY new fuses at all. What are the odds that the existing stock fuses in any given amp or speaker were originally inserted in the correct o... | |
| What do you use to check for brightness? Most systems are plagued with high frequency problems of various types. Especially when the volume is turned up. We tend to accept a great deal of noise and distortion without too much complaint. Pretty easy to blame the recordings and just live w... | |
| Need tube help with tube buffer 6SN7 tubes Gee, I wonder why they would say there's no difference between 2 hole and 3 hole Sylvanias...hmmmmm. :-) | |
| a crazy free audiophile tweak Of course cupping hands improves the gain, like a satellite dish diameter, but it also interferes with or changes some other things like frequency response and soundstage/ambiance. The biggest effect is when the system dynamic range is kind of com... | |
| Need tube help with tube buffer 6SN7 tubes Tony, that's a nice-looking pair of NOS Bad Boys on A-gon for $120! Even though they have two-hole plates I'm sure they're great tubes. | |
| Tube pre picking up feedback/vibration? Sorry to say, all tubes are microphonic, at least to some degree; there simply isn't such a thing as a non-microphonic tube. This is fairly easy to demonstrate with Herbies Tube Dampers. The only way to fly. | |
| Need tube help with tube buffer 6SN7 tubes They don't call them Bad Boys for nothing. Expect to pay $200 MP for real Bad Boys. | |
| Need tube help with tube buffer 6SN7 tubes Matched pair of Sylvania Bad Boys for under $100? Shirley you jest. | |
| Tweak you gotta try. Post your results... Mapman wrote,"Unfortunately, when it comes to Geoff specifically and his ideas and products, it just has not been worth it to me. The nonsense tends to greatly outweigh an dilute any value that might be there. The result is always a profoundly neg... | |
| oppo 105 vs 103 I have an Oppo 103. The 103 sounds terrific on Redbook CD but if you wish to play SACDs you must have the HDMI cables installed which probably means you also need a receiver with HDMI capability. I trust someone will correct me if I'm wrong about ... | |
| Coconut Audio $1.5 million power cord PT Barnum was smart enough to know a thing doesn't sell itself, no matter how great the thing is. That's why there's a circus barker. Step right this way, Ladies and Gentlemen, see the Greatest Show on Earth. | |
| Tweak you gotta try. Post your results... Mapman, nice try but I don't sell magnets. I just want to help audiophiles out. | |
| Tweak you gotta try. Post your results... Oozy wrote, "What is the purpose for the magnets? Do they align the flow of electricity? Or is it really distortion, I wonder?"That's a really good question and I have a feeling nobody really knows. I'm pretty sure folks just accidentally stumble ... | |
| Anyone try purple and orange with green CD edge? Csontos, I'm giving some serious consideration to promoting you to associate shill. Welcome aboard, sailor! | |
| Coconut Audio $1.5 million power cord Marakanetz, PT Barnum also said, More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much. P.T. Barnum quotes Cheers |