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| WOULD IT BE DUMB TO BUY A MARK LEVINSON NO 23.5 @testpilot Yes, taking anything apart can be a pain. Try real consumer gear, made to NOT be fixable....But I would not have expected them to obscure parts values, unless its a very unusual, secret way of using a part. But cap voltages? really? Tha... | |
| WOULD IT BE DUMB TO BUY A MARK LEVINSON NO 23.5 I'll second comments that its a bit sterile sounding, but i'll also second comments that its well made. And while electrolytic capacitors degrade with age - my experience, having shipped -- and seen the results -- 100s of units is that if you rea... | |
| Need "BTDT" help with Logic DM-101 bearing I do plan to take it apart and fix.Can we get back to "who has taken the bearing out of the sub chassis and can guide me to any pitfalls". i Don't have tome or interest in wasting time where i can avoid it.Millercarbon - what's your experience wit... | |
| Smoke on my power amp in the specific case of tube amps having output transformers Fair enough! (But we were talking SS...) Also that is more an issue of disconnecting while playing, rather than "turn on with no load" - which are quite different. | |
| Stereophile, Pass Integrated and personal taste I find eric's posts to be very interesting. -Certainly not 'Flame Trolling'.Me too. Not that i always agree, but at least he posts informed comment and asks interesting, if to some provocative, questions. Maybe if i spent more time i'd feel diffe... | |
| Smoke on my power amp All I know is that the vast majority of amps I own or have owned have a huge warning in the owner’s manual that states not to operate the amp without speakers being hooked up. And I think you now know why. It is NOT safe to operate so don’t even t... | |
| Smoke on my power amp the first question is "why?". I have a guess: yo disconnected the speaker wires and they touched, shorting out the amp's "unconnected" channel. Guess.IS there permanent damage? Maybe. Some, yes. Significant? we don;t know without looking. Could... | |
| Recomend Some Albums Recorded with True Imaging. Anything from Mercury Living Presence (well, the stereo ones, duh)Most anything from verve. Consider Ella and LouisSome good ones aboveThe ones i note image fantastically on both LP (assuming your TT is set up) and on digital (even if your turntab... | |
| What is the appeal of the Denon 103 cartridges? I had one for years. It was warm, and enjoyable, much in the way that Grado's can be. Like most cartridges, setup is the most critical - and probably means more than what one starts with as a hunk of diamond, metal and who-knows-what.And, int he... | |
| Can anyone explain in laymans terms why your gear sound better after warm up As you can see above, even engineers debate this. We have many possible theories, but no actual definitive answers, because no valid testing has (or will) be done. Its completely and costly.But there are many possibilities:1. temperature consiste... | |
| Is grounding with RCA is safe? I disagree that grounding options could reduce the accuracy of the system, **unless** they also created a noticeable hum. no hum, no foul.The key to grounding is to have ONE connection to ground - and everything else grounded to THAT. Typically ... | |
| Is grounding with RCA is safe? It’s safe.Now, there are two complications:as noted you could create a ground loop, but from your report of improved sound, you didn’t, so don;t worry about it.Safety, and effectiveness, depend on how your component is grounded internally. The out... | |
| Are "streamers" the new "transports"? Basically, "yes" but with one big caveat. For most of the time transports have been on this earth, they transmitted the data over SPDIF, in the original mode, which was isochronous. That meant that the timing of each sample transmitted was determi... | |
| Thoughts on discreet tubs, transistors vs. IC chips, op-amps.,.etc On the other hand the very geometry and small size leads to compromises, and things like connecting resistors etc. must, in reality, be semiconductors -- not metal film, carbon film, etc.This isn't true, I use thin film smd resistors which are ... | |
| Do we really need anything greater than 24/96? Opinions? Not having read *every* post i like the direction of the OP and Geoff....first, most of what we like and don't seems to be locked in at recording and mastering. Listen to some 50 year old Verve and Mercury recordings - superb in 16/44. Now listen... |