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| Rodney Crowell, anyone heard the Cicadas? The Cicadas was a group that included Crowell. As far as I know they put out one album in 1997. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002NDA/qid=1013958229/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-0750570-6113750 | |
| Against everything that high end cables stand for My Dear Msnloeth, I can hear the difference between many different cables. I stated my belief that cables do indeed make a difference in my previous post. My point is that the equation "more expensive = sounds better" is not always true. I have au... | |
| Against everything that high end cables stand for After years of trial and error I have found that cables are highly system dependent no matter what they cost. The cost of $40 or $4000 has little to do with how they sound with your system. You have evidently found a set of cables with properties ... | |
| Is it the cable or the cartridge or???? You should be using a shielded cable from the turntable to phono preamp. The signal level from the cartridge is very low so the gain of the preamp is very high. Any noise picked up by the cable will be easily heard. The blue heaven has no shieldin... | |
| Passive preamp and biamping Why is having to turn it up to 1:00 a problem? Anyway, biamping will not change things too much but will actually lower the volume. Probably not enough to notice though. The gain of the amps would have to be the same to keep things balanced. So in... | |
| What can you do about a nonselling seller? Forget about it. It's irritating but life is too short to worry about such things. | |
| Help me find this sound I have a Conrad Johnson dv2-b player that I really like. Nothing at all fatiguing about it. Very musical, very under rated. They also made DACs that can be had for a very good price. Check their web site in the classic products section. | |
| Best source of lead shot? That's just great Fatparrot! First I'm worried about the lead dust, and NOW I have to avoid getting too close to my outlets for fear of getting zapped by leaping electricity. Is there anything else I should be concerned about? I've already lined m... | |
| Any way to shield a non-sheilded center channel ? Sean, continuing on in ignorance is not too bad. I've been doing it for years. I agree that installing an extra magnet in the your speakers is probably a bad idea. I just pointed out this design technique in the hope of clearing up some of the con... | |
| Any way to shield a non-sheilded center channel ? On first reading I missed the comment about the ground above. Connecting the metal plate to an electrical ground like an outlet cover screw will have no effect. Magnetic flux lines cannot be grounded, they must be guided away from the TV via some ... | |
| Any way to shield a non-sheilded center channel ? The metal plate must be a material that can be magnetized. That way the magnetic lines of flux from the speaker are concentrated in the metal and they are directed away from the TV. Lead is nonmagnetic and will not work. As mentioned, mu metal is ... | |
| Flamenco and Tango Bwhite, your points are well taken. Paco De Lucia is one of my favotite artists and I agree that his explorations of other genres in no way detracts from his artistry. For one of his albums that blends traditional Flamenco with a little twist try ... | |
| Flamenco and Tango For Flamenco, Paco De Lucia. While some recordings are not flamenco in the purest sense of the word, he is an amazing guitarist and if not pure flamenco, very close. He did a series of albums on Phillips that are very good. Check out "Friday Night... | |
| too much power now-dump active for passive pre? There is nothing wrong with the situation you describe. It is very rare that the maximum reasonable volume from the speakers works out to be the maximum setting on the volume control. If you like the sound you are getting, what is wrong with full ... | |
| Equipment priority for powercords Unless I misunderstand your question, there can only be one possible answer. If your goal is to get the best sound, put it where it makes your system sound the best. There are no "golden rules" about such matters. This will require some time and e... |