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| replacement drive for Rega Apollo Your Rega Apollo uses a Sanyo SF-P101N drive/laser and are quite cheap if your handy the whole drive is quite easy to do your self. Just the laser is harder.http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.TRS0&... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... +1 Wolf, and "passively elegantly written" Al, sure your not getting splinters there buddy? Sending back?? That was part of the marketing strategy!!!Even if half send them back, they still made a fortune, about 99% profit on each fuse. Then the ha... | |
| Ribbon speakers Problem with ribbon tweeters is that the mid range unit needs to be very fast to keep up with them. I have yet to hear a two way that sounds coherent, because the mid/bass driver is always too slow. So the ideal setup would be a 3 way that uses a ... | |
| Best Pre-amp for $500?? Randy!https://www.audiogon.com/listings/processors-parasound-c2-preamplifier-home-theater-processor-7755-2016-04-27-home-theater-80020-broomfield-co He says he’s open to offers $500 could be good, just use it in HT bypass mode, and you’ve got a HT... | |
| old krell kma 400,s mono blocks Stumpy, nice you got them recapped, but can you say who did the job in Australia? As being a tech there's a max of $1000 for all ps caps and board caps, and a good day maybe 1.5 days labour. Cheers George | |
| Solid state amp to replace my Audio Research Ref 150 amp Ooops, your right Al, overlooked the heat concern. But what a great pair of amps for the money, and those line source of ribbons and mid units of his speakers would never sound as good with Pass class A driving them.Cheers George | |
| Solid state amp to replace my Audio Research Ref 150 amp https://www.audiogon.com/listings/solid-state-pass-labs-xa-160-5-mono-blocks-passlabs-xa160-5-in-great-condition-2016-05-03-amplifiers-72210-little-rock-ar Make him an 8k offer.Cheers George | |
| Sony 707ES or XA7ES CDPs SONY CDP-707ESD 2 x PCM64P – CXD1144A KSS-190A SONY CDP-X707ES 2 x CXD2562Q – CXD2567M KSS-272A SONY CDP-XA7ES CDX2562Q 2 x CXA8042AS Fixed Pick-Up KSS-273AIf you forgot to put the D on the end of the 707 this is the one as it has the great (PCM64... | |
| Pop/crack on power up, followed by audible tweeter hiss You probably have a different version of output filter to the OP. Some other Class D manufacturers changed theirs every 12 months V1 V2 V3 all output filter changes, just to keep owners interested. Resulting in different amounts of hiss,, less or ... | |
| Please help value these speakers Don't know too much about the rest,, but the Rogers LS3/5A bring big money among the Japanese.Cheers George | |
| Vintage threshold MkII had optical bias control on both S500MkII and S300MkII and were more reliable for it. I'm not sure what the "E" stood for Cheers George | |
| Do female audiophiles exist Yeah in Australia there are, but unfortunately they all look a bit like this, but there are nice looking ones too!!http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/2012/04/delta-goodrem12.jpg Cheers George | |
| Shangling CD-T100 CD Player in need of repair Just found where I posted that Wadia analog output gain change so the digital VC for best resolution need to be close to max. You may need to be a member to open it.http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/attachments/digital-source/531571d1455620405-digita... | |
| Gain Structure help, Mcintosh D100 to Primalune tube amp What Mark Levinson and Wadia did in their great R2R Multibit dacs/cdp of yesteryear, was to use a digital domain VC, which is the best if you don’t "bit strip" But they allowed and instructed the user to get the best sound was to set with bridges ... | |
| Gain Structure help, Mcintosh D100 to Primalune tube amp Hi John, just found this out for you, looks as though the front right panel knob is digital in the way it send the coding onto the analog side of things. "maybe" Quote from "The Ear" review "Mostly the output mode is chosen with the use of DIP-swi... |