harrylavo
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| Tube PHONO preamp interference - RFI, EMI, bad grounding? I live near a major Air Force Base and occasionally get interference (although mostly on FM) from one of the radars on the base. The periodicity of the noise to me is a giveaway that it is something causing a "sweep". What that might be you are ... | |
| What's going on with the used audio gear market? ghasley - the Chicago School of which Milton Friedman was the main voice have been the minority economic theorists since the early fifties. Remember how FDR was going to ruin the economy? And the post-war "giveaways" (GI bill, subsidized housin... | |
| Dual 1219 spring suspension The older Duals are extremely well engineered, even though the engineering may look a little "crude". Unless you have a problem, just leave it alone. | |
| Sharing amp inputs between two pre-amps There is a company named Zektor that makes very high audiophile grade switching panels among other things. I have one called a MAS7.1, so named because it can handle up to 7.1 channel analog surround system. It will also switch three unbalanced ... | |
| Cat 5, 5a, 6, 6a, etc Buy some 4, 5, and 6 cables shielded or unshielded and begin to play by substituting.and listening, like any other component. Once you've got a preference for category, then try different brands and build qualities. Getting a system optimized ca... | |
| Recapping Krell KSA 250 Whoa!! Yes, turning on the amp can be a major problem .... it may blow a component and you can just hope the safety circuitry or fuses do their job. See if you can buy a used Variactor somewhere nearby, plus ghe amp into it, and start by feeding... | |
| Keeping Insider status If you are selling or buying gear, the Blue Book is a very important source of information. Other but I was paying that before that amount made me an "Insider" so whatever benefit comes from that was "free" to me. But I do agree that there seems... | |
| SkyfiAudio Look, SkyFi is a niche operation that caters to the carriage trade in one of the world's wealthiest, largest metro areas. They may not be for everybody, or even 85% of us, but if they are honest about what they offer as apparently they are, then ... | |
| Washington Post article on MoFi vs. Fremer vs. Esposito What this does is support the assertion of many audiophiles that DSD (as in SACD records) does not distort or destroy the "analogous-ness" of the original the way PCM does. There is a reason download services use DSD for ultimate sound quality in... | |
| Thiel Owners @trickeydude ..... I am going to give you some advice based on personal experience .... very specific ... that may help. Far and away the most cost-effective driver for the thiels is an Adcom brand power amplifier model 555ii. It is highly trans... | |
| A Beginner's Guide to Audiophile There were early editions of both Stereophile and The Abso!ute Sound where J. Gordon Holt and Harry Pearson respectively presented a glossary correlating frequency ranges with descriptive commentary (eg. bright, overly bright, dominant midrange, e... | |
| 33rpm vs 45rpm - which is better Back in the late 40's when RCA and Columbia were fighting for format ascendancy, the general consensus among those with good audio systems (my father sold them and I grew up with one in the living room) was that the 45's were the best in dynamic r... | |
| I'm at the pearly gates and they tell me I can only bring in one jazz cd This will be controversial. Allen Toussaint "Bright Mississippi". Old style Kansas City jazz but with modern overlays by Toussaint. Can't keep from tapping your toes while enjoying the solo excursions. This is the only "jazz" CD Toissant every... | |
| Help…looking to buy turntable I'm going to go back even further and suggest a Dual 701 semi-automatic turntable (it lifts at the end of play). Duals are very tricky to service and their are not many folks who can do so with expertise these days, so that is a fallback. But if... | |
| Tuner choice yyzsantabarbara ... agree...you can pay a lot more, but it is a bit of a crapshoot today because tuner's just don't get reviewed. But IME the early models I mentioned will hold their own with any of the recents .... at about 1/50th the price. |