immatthewj
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| Movie/film suggestions. Speaking of George Clooney, I thought that The Ides Of March had a pretty quick moving and tight plot with some good acting by Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marissa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood. . . . | |
| Balanced vs RCA preamps A word of caution. Just because there’s an XLR connection does not mean it is a truly balanced circuit. I’ve seen many implementations where it’s actually a single ended circuit transmitted via XLR connectors. @jpan , if the manufacturer clear... | |
| LoFi Well, like they always say, "That was then and this is now." | |
| Balanced vs RCA preamps Another reason for RCA and fully balanced XLR outputs might be for subwoofers. If the two sets of output jacks (XLR and RCA, respectively) are in parallel- meaning they both output the same audio signal, they can be used for connection to multipl... | |
| Cary SLP 98 vs Benchmark LA4 I believe Cary is going to stop production of the SLP 98, this year. I have been watching used pieces mostly. I had not heard about the audition clause and warranty loss but it may well be. I'd been looking at a used one and a 30 day return polic... | |
| A not sarcastic question for the power conditioner/upgraded power cord folks . . . staying off topic, @devinplombier , this all made me think of another movie I saw a while back ago, and I had to do a google because I forgot the name of it, but it was The Last Descent. Anyway, it was apparently based on factual events tha... | |
| Cary SLP 98 vs Benchmark LA4 I'm leaning toward the Cary, since I have always loved the PH 301. Rolled a lot of tubes in and out of that phono pre. The SLP 98L that I found, does not look to have any upgrades but is only 8 years old so not sure how much improved it is over t... | |
| A not sarcastic question for the power conditioner/upgraded power cord folks . . . since we are already off topic, I'll go on to say that whenever I work underneath one of my vehicles (which I do frequently) I do a real THOROUGH job of supporting it. Going out that way is also high up on my list of ways not to, although I... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. I thought Syriana was an intense and well cast movie. I don't always like George Clooney, but I did enjoy his portrayal of the CIA spook who I understand was actually intended to represent Robert Baer. It was a movie I could watch more than once... | |
| LoFi If I could jump into my purple Super Bee, pop in an 8 track tape, and ride around drinking beer with my friends, Tim and Alan, that would be heaven. Yup. I didn't know your friends, but I remember those days. It was fun. But it's like most a... | |
| A not sarcastic question for the power conditioner/upgraded power cord folks Have you watched The Vanishing? The original Dutch version Sorry for the off topic everyone 🙂 No problems on the off topic, @devinplombier ; anyway I had to google to make sure I was thinking about the same movie, and the one I saw had Kiefer ... | |
| Cary SLP 98 vs Benchmark LA4 @billpete , I picked up a secondhand and modded SLP 90 back in '99, and I really loved what it did for my system. That typed, prior to that I had a B&K digital HT pre, so I probably could only go up from there. Anyway, that SLP 90 did have 1... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. Here are a couple with a musical theme that I would add to my list: Sid And Nancy (Chloe Webb as Nancy Spungen and Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious) is a classic. I just did a google and Courtney Love had a part that I do not remember, but seeing as... | |
| Cary SLP 98 vs Benchmark LA4 and I forget what is in the 05 6SN7s. | |
| A not sarcastic question for the power conditioner/upgraded power cord folks Sounds like you are leaning towards dedicated circuits. @.knownothing , if I have been unable to make clear by now that I have dedicated circuits, I don't suppose that anything further I typed on that subject will clarify it. @immatthewj ... |