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| What do in store listening tests prove? In-store listening is the first step, sort of an introduction to the product that narrows your selection. The second step, and IMO the most important, is to take it home for evaluation to see how you like it in your environment. A repetitive and t... | |
| What did he say? Misunderstood lyrics. "Louie, Louie"... many-a things heard in there. | |
| Worth more used? NOS Tubes. | |
| High end vs internet The internet has increased the circulation of equipment to the point where you don't have to go on an adventure to find used gear. Once the domain of dealers who would mark up used gear, the market has turned into the individual seller and buyer a... | |
| Electricity fluctuations The power company is partially to blame but fat chance they'll help out. If you are at the end of a rural line, there is a good chance that your problem of voltage sag is caused by power line faults from things like tree branches, damaged power po... | |
| Does copper migrate through silver? What you have is the silver corroding the copper underneath. This causes pock marks on the silver plating which cooks from the voltage applied to it, hence the coloration. Could very well be there's no nickel under the silver (typical of cheap-o p... | |
| alternatives to spikes on wood floors? The spikes may not be needed at all. I once had my Thiels on hardwood - made no significant difference with or without the spikes (I spiked them on thick ceramic tile) in my room. The purpose of the spikes for Thiels, IMO, is more to couple the sp... | |
| Dedicated outlets, 10ga, and what else? If you are in a commercial building, I would suggest MC or BX with isolated ground receptacles. Lots of motors in commercial buildings: air conditioners, elevators, pumps etc. which can cause emf reflections in your circuits."THHN" is nothing more... | |
| How to interpret the readings from tube tester? A more pertinent question is how does one know the tube tester is accurate/calibrated? As far as what is left in the tube, the Gm readings will give you a feel of the tube, not any with definite certainty of what's left in it. A good way to figure... | |
| Power problem causing drop-out in surround sound Off the top of my head, sounds like there may be low voltage arcing SOMEWHERE in your wiring system; affects digital, computers, etc., more than resistive or motor loads so its hard to pin down, i.e. a light plugged into the offending outlet might... | |
| Definitive Beethoven's 9th recording The best performance on a recording? Hard to say. Try Karajan (1977 as well as the '63), '89 Bernstein, '87 Solti, '51 Furtwangler, or Klemperer if your looking for performance without the sonic gymnastics. Newbee is right - there is no one defini... | |
| Bach Brandenberg Concertos CD Recommendation The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood, onDecca LÂOiseau-Lyre. Played on period instruments. Might not have the "speed" that you may be used to hearing for these works, but an otherwise excellent CD vis-a-vis sonics and performance. | |
| Rating of transformer of NAD 306 Amplifier Did a quick check of NAD's website under "Where to Buy". Cut and pasted this:India: PEERLESS FABRIKKERNE LTD./10 OCTAVES 712, Linking Rd., Bajaj Niwas Bandra (W), Bombay India 400050 Tel: 91 22 6001047/49 Fax: 91 98215-17446 E-mail: manasr@10octav... | |
| Decent internet radio stations..... For classical, "www.classicfm.com" out of London is very good. | |
| dedicated circuit, flex conduit? Just to confuse you even more, these all are "flexible" type cables: Armored clad types AC (e.g., BX) and MC;Romex family NM, NMS, NMC;Flexible metal family FMC, FMT, liquidtight FMC and liquidtight FNC.All of the above come with insulated copper ... |