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| Tube myths Joint Army Navy vs Non Joint Army Navy Bought a pair of tube amps from circa 1955. The owner had JAN tubes recently installed. The amps sounded OK, but when i replaced the tubes with Amperex tubes, the amps sound incredible, they just SING !!!So much for the "sound quality" of JAN tubes. | |
| Shanling in Washington D.C. Could it be? Markeetaux,Why wouldn't you want to consider additional options???A troll-like post if ever i saw one. | |
| Any Info on "Allegro Reference" tube amps? From Audiogon archives;02-21-02: Gundam91I've seen these in Hong Kong and Taiwan's audiophile magazines. A friend of mine down in L.A. did have an Allegro all tube preamplifier that he had high praises for few years ago. Never got to hear it mysel... | |
| Should I pay 500 to mod my old Mac MR-67 tuner? The MR 71 engineering corrected several problems that were inherent in the MR 67 and MR 65 designs. A better use of $500.00 might be to put it towards a mint MR 71. They seem to sell around $750-850 range. However, not all MR 71's are created equa... | |
| help with a sometimes boomy sounding room.. Sounds like the bass drivers on your speakers are unable to handle lower frequencies. Use an amplified sub-woofer and carefully "dial-in" the bass response using a CD that has a lot of bass cords or scales. The object is to get a continuation of b... | |
| Cleaning vintage amps Pure alcohol (isopropyl alcohol) can remove the decals (logos) and lettering on the chassis.Better to use Contact Cleaner which is designed for this purpose. It's available from most electrical supply stores. | |
| How do you get Good Sound from a PC ? You wanted the best, well here it is. And you can get it directly from the manufacturer for $300.00. If Apogee packaged this soundcard as a component it would be $5,000.00.You can email Yuri, the owner, at yuri@egosys.net, or go to their website;w... | |
| Day amp arrives Cashier check returned The buyer has 72 hours from the date of issue to stop-payment on a cashiers check. Sounds like he stopped payment before he received your amplifier. In other words his lack of knowledge is bogus. Perhaps he intends to make good on the check now th... | |
| 8 Gauge Speaker Cable Use 4 gauge instead. The results will be significantly better than 8 gauge. The gauge refers to the diameter of the twisted , braided cable. Each cable to each terminal(not a combination of the separate cables) and has nothing to do with the cover... | |
| Pioneer Elite 16 by 10 Big Screen TVs, they made Use the zoom feature on your DVD player to fill the screen on the Pioneer 55" screen. I use a Toshiba DVD player which has a zoom feature, I assume that most players have this. | |
| Should I get Dolby B decoder for my open reel deck Dolby B was used as a method to reduce or eliminate tape hiss. There are Dolby B recordings, but the boxes are clearly marked as such. You don't need a Dolby B decoder to play tapes on your deck. Maybe 90% -95% of the reel to reel tapes sold are n... | |
| What Does It Take to be an Audiophile? Dekay, please tell us where you go shopping for deals like that.(And are there any left???) | |
| Upper Midrange Glare problem The answer is in your speaker cables. To remedy this problem you can assemble a minimum eight (8) foot length of 4awg (gauge) pure copper wire and replace ALL of your speaker cables. This will eliminate the shrill glare that you hear in your syste... | |
| What to do with an Absolute Sound set? Mike;Would you be willing to photocopy the reviews in TAS 33, 34, 35 (??) for the NOVA Electro Acoustic J-FET Control Preamplifier CPA-100 ????I can't find those issues anywhere, but I recently bought the preamp and want to get some more info.Glad... | |
| Freak Me Out David, a buddy gave me a CD he bought in India which is really well recorded with sound effects and Indian music, tablas, etc., with vocals. I think it is the soundtrack from a movie, but I'm not sure. Sort of *Star Wars comes to Bombay*. All of t... |