immatthewj
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| Help and Advice Needed: Cary Audio SLP-05 Preamp RMA Disaster I left a voice message on the Cary Direct sales number, but they never called back. @roxito , maybe it is due to the holidays. But I can tell you that, unless things have recently changed, they no longer offer telephone tech support. The las... | |
| Wiring 2 outlets to 2 dedicated 20 amp circuits with a single 10/3 electrical wire. Two - the layman that wants to understand a particular electrical question really needs some Electricity 101 before getting an in depth technical explanation. The layman has too many misconceptions and misunderstandings about electricity that nee... | |
| I have found out why new cables and tweaks actually work! In all seriousness, I kind of remember someone, either here or on AA, saying that spraying cables & interconnects with that antistatic stuff for laundry had a positive sonic effect. And I am pretty sure I remember he was serious about that. | |
| Dedicated Line - Things to consider @immatthewj please let us know what you’ve heard as a result of the test when you get around to it @audphile1 , over the past couple of weeks I put in some sessions on the new dedicated circuits that I replaced the old "dedicated circuits" with... | |
| Soundstage drastically worsened when I replaced a solid state AV amp with tubes. You guys think my ideas were too obvious but ... I have gone through exactly these issues at two different dealers. The excessively wide Soundstage was due to a speaker polarity flip. @erik_squires , this got me thinking about an amp I audition... | |
| Wiring 2 outlets to 2 dedicated 20 amp circuits with a single 10/3 electrical wire. And now I’ve got a quad panel on my wall and wonder if I can do 2 dedicated circuits to be wired into that one 2 outlet plastic box inserted into my wall. Or do I need to create a new hole in the wall for the new dedicated outlet and convert quad... | |
| life span/failure rate of filter capacitors? Thanks, @bigkidz , I am going to call Monday (after the X-mas holiday, so if there is any holiday madness going on at Partsconnexion that will be done with). Thanks again. | |
| Speaker Hum Our house was built in the '60s also, and some of the wiring was somewhat upgraded and some was the original 2 blade outlets and it had the glass screw-in fuse box. One of the best (and actually relatively affordable) upgrades I ever did was to b... | |
| patricia barber - diana krall - holly cole They would probably tear at each other's clothes, like Lucy & Ethel. That's an interesting concept. | |
| Greatest Songwriter of all time . . . and Suzanne Vega. . . . | |
| Maintaining a "Balanced" System Design? Perhaps purchase cabling on a trial or loan basis with an iron clad return policy…. The Cable Company used to do that, maybe they still do. You could give them a call about that. | |
| life span/failure rate of filter capacitors? Thanks, @bigkidz , I will remember that. As it stands presently, I do not think I am having a problem with the amp, but reading that thread that I continue to reference from the OP with a 20 year old V12 which had a (what I am now sure is a ) PO... | |
| Maintaining a "Balanced" System Design? Of course that brought me to looking at amplification and I am sure everyone knows the story from here... Yup . . . I definitely know the story. | |
| Greatest Songwriter of all time If I haven't done so already, I am putting Lucinda Williams on the list. | |
| life span/failure rate of filter capacitors? @immatthewj - if the amp is idle then those years typically do not count but it all depends on how much is was run for the 14 years. Like I mentioned above, you can use a larger value but make sure they fit. You can call Chris Johnson at Pa... |