joeylawn36111

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A butt-load spent in cables - how much improvemt?
Good point Mlsstl - My choice is not to purchase ANY expensive cables/power cords. 
What's your favorite lyric from a song?
"We don't need no education We don't need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the clahssroom(sic) Teacher leave us kids alone" 
What's up with the 'Piano' gloss????
Car Wax on your 'tables? sounds like the latest Tweak -lol 
Best guitar explosion of all time
audiofeil - my bad. 
Best guitar explosion of all time
Santanas cover of the Animals "She's Not There"Niel Young "Like a Hurricaine" 
Soldering 101 for Audiophiles
Make sure you use solder made for electronics, namely rosin-core solder. Don't use acid core solder - that's for plumbing. 
Mr. Clean - Erase`
....so I guess you then shouldn't play your Billy Squier records after cleaning with the Magic Eraser....;) 
Vacuum tubed tone control???
I won't tell if you won't. ;>) 
Mr. Clean - Erase`
Doug is right. The chemical in question is Formaldehyde, but in a harmless form called a monomer. It is combined with some other chemicals in a process called polymerization. In other words it is PLASTIC. All plastics are polymers that start from ... 
Can an ADCOM GFA-5802 be converted to 220V
Any electronics can be converted to 220v. 1) Use a step-down transformer. 2) Get a replacement transformer that has a 220v primary, but with the secondary(s) the identical output voltage. Also, the fusing needs to be halved. #2 above is harder to ... 
Vacuum tubed tone control???
Bojack, you are correct. It is the Behringer T1951 Tube Ultra-Q. Parametic EQ with adjustable tube 'warmth' using 12ax7's. Not in the league with hi-end, but around $150 or less, won't hurt to experiment. I have one and would be glad to answer any... 
capacitance with a 100VA transformer
Generally speaking, a capacitor is like a container - the bigger it is, the more charge it will hold. But it will only fill to what the transformer/diodes charge it to. As far as maximum capacitance, there is none, but there is a point where too l... 
haunting/dark classical
Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis"Carl Nielsen Symphony No. 5Jean Sibelius Sym. #4 - used in the movie "Alien"Igor Stravinsky "Rite of Spring"Hector Berlioz "Symphonie Fantastique"I love the haunting/dark kind of classi... 
favorite SOPRANO?
Well you see what happens in the Sopranos when they SING.... 
Anyone wish they had a rumble subsonic filter?
The old Audiocontrol C-101 equalizer has a Rumble reducer button(Low frequency summing) and a subsonic filter. They regularly show up on ebay and sometimes here.