jeffcott
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| Review: Mcalister Audio PP150S Tube amp Bill:Your remarks would make it seem that you have been pleased with Scompracer's fix. His methodology seems pretty complete. What did you experience with this? Did all of the induction noise seem to vanish, or was it simply reduced? | |
| Review: Mcalister Audio PP150S Tube amp Grannyring: You are not the only person who saw and considered the listing for this amp. If the timing of this listing (with my PreAmp off for repairs, and spending more money than planned on house remodeling) had not been so unfortunate, I am not... | |
| Herbie's Hal-O tube dampener's on Calypso? Perfectionist: I use the Hal-O tube dampers and would not be without them. My experience is in line with the remarks made by Audphile1. For the modest cost, I would not choose to be without them, however, I have found more significant benefit on m... | |
| Why China Isnt Happening Yet Cwlondon: Interesting post....from many points of view that are much larger than simply the audiophile marketplace. I am one who is going to agree with your colleague as regards the looming issues that are very real and will cause major disruption... | |
| paypal phishing All good advice and accurate advice. As regards Ebay, one simple technique if you get a phishing email is to simply go to your ebay account view your messages. If the message is not there, it did NOT come from Ebay. If you are concerned, then simp... | |
| EAD Theatervision LD/CD transport Ficel: I have had limited experience with an EAD T-7000. My normal transport is a CEC TL-2, and I had the T-7000 hooked up as a transport only for a short period of time for testing. In this case I was using the ST-Optical connection to my DAC, an... | |
| CD player vibration control .................. Townshend Seismic Sinks under both Transport and DAC. The improvement on the DAC was suprising. | |
| Capping unused rca & xlr connectors??? Neil: You said that you don't recommend the Cardas Caps....whatpieces do you like for this purpose? | |
| Tubes for a VTL 2.5 Rootmann:I do not have experience with 6350's, but have a lot of experience with the 12AU7 family and its variants. Emailme offline if you wish to chat about them. | |
| Sailboats and Audio Shubert:It has been a number of years ago, but I found myself in a very similar situation. My solution was inline with yours, though for the passing of years the gear selection was different. I used on-wall monitors (for all of the reasons that yo... | |
| Solution to a ground loop problem Kr4 smacks the bullseye.....he hit the nail with every swing of the hammer. When the cable connections are clean and tight and when the incoming cable (and or equipment) is grounded to the same grounding system as your service panel, voila there i... | |
| A Night for Johnny Cash Narrod: Thank You!, for taking the time to reply. I wasnot familiar with this piece of music, but lookingat the information regarding it, I am very sure thatyou are right.....recorded with him, it is a logicalchoice to be the piece chosen for this... | |
| What do you think of APJ's new Watch Dog 21 Mike....there is another thread running on the Audio Perfectionist which I just posted to. In short, IMO, Richard Hardesty is the closest thing you are likely to find to a "straight shooter" in this industry. FWIW, if you like his writing (I do) a... | |
| auric illuminator, effective? disc beveling? I know that the AG forum archival query system leaves a lot to be desired, but as others have said before: "You really need to do your homework and search the archives".For the record, the below is THE definitive AG thread on media preparation:htt... | |
| Transport & tweaks for audio logic 24MXL Glai: Rcprince's experience with tubes from his use in the previous response are all good recommendations and are all in the upper crust of the 6922 tube family. There are a wide selection of tubes in this family, spanning from "modest and afforda... |