jeff_jones
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| Popping from light switches and refrigerator Jea48 - I really like the write up above, and think you may well be correct. I'm still curious about the condition of the amp though. Chuck moved into the house 3 weeks ago, which makes me think that his audio equipment was moved and unaviodably b... | |
| Popping from light switches and refrigerator JEA48 - "Imo he has a bigger problem than that...." . You may be right, or the popping might be coincidental to the other issues, or both. In any case, I don't see any reccomendations above that seem unreasonable and I keep wondering about the fir... | |
| Popping from light switches and refrigerator The popping noise can just be line noise as the engineer mentioned to you. When you break current flow suddenly this creates an inductive kick (short duration voltage spike) that needs to bleed off somewhere. I've got 10 gauge solid copper dedicat... | |
| fuse question In medicine it used to be 'generally accepted' that blood letting with leeches and occasional tapping of stomache bile was a good idea, similar stuff remains widely acclaimed in cultures that haven't adopted scientific method (and in audio of cour... | |
| VPI periphery record ring for VPI Scoutmaster It's a pain in the butt to take off and put on, but I'd buy it again for my Aries, particularly because I have several records that have seen better days. VPI will tell you that one of the bennies is a bit of consistency in frequency/smoothness in... | |
| What Bryston says about power cord... "I guess the rest depends on the resolution of the system and" - I think it is more likely to depend on whether or not the connected components have well designed and functioning internal filtering. You wonder if some times a blown power supply ca... | |
| What Bryston says about power cord... Audiogon is the only place I know of where the majority seem to encourage spending money on fancy power cords (even when you can hear a difference it is rarely an improvement). It is your money however.... | |
| When do you know when you're done? After you figure out that additional incremental improvements don't realy effect how much you enjoy listening to music, and that all systems are a compromise (i.e. a system can only be optomized for one specific recording). | |
| Cerious cables - Proper setup and run in time If you don't care, what is an "Audio Engineer"? Just curious as I see the reference made from time to time. I assume that it is either anyone with some type of engineering degree who works in audio or anyone who works in audio and considers their ... | |
| Neil Young - Like a Hurricane He did the song with Crazy Horse at Purdue University way back when. Had this big arsed fan pointing at him so he was standing balanced against the wind with his hair blown sideways while he did it, kind of neat. | |
| trying to decide between Cary 303/300 and BAT CD The older BAT VKD5 I liked less that some much cheaper competition (Arcam fmj23 for example). Sounds like from the above description, with the SE they might have cured what I didn't like about the original. In any case, my reason for chiming in is... | |
| NPR, Wine Tasteing, & Audiophiles Albertporter - Hard to keep a train of thought with fatparrot two lines above a doin the hoo-ha. But in any case, fwiw, it wasn't a value test it was a which one is best test. Ain't sure how long term experience would apply with a wine taste test?... | |
| Fuses - Why do same size fuses sound different? Seems like it's time to debate double blind testing again . . . . . | |
| LPs and allergies, anyone? I'd suggest a conversation/appointment with an allergist to see if you are barking up the right tree. If it is coming from the album covers/mold related you may be better off looking at a dehumidifier. FWIW. | |
| Best tube preamp match for Rogue Audio Stereo 90? I like my Rogue magnum 99 with the Zeus. |