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| earth ground disconnected or not ? Grisslehamn, YOu may want to consider one more option; Dedicated earth ground for your audio system only. The medical grade outlets offer this feature, where the outlet can be ilsolated from the system or house ground. Depending on where you live ... | |
| Parasound P/LD-2000 preamp mods? Daltonlanny, you're welcome. I have modd'ed 1 of the Para. 2000's, two of the 1100's a handful of Zpres, and numerous other manufacturer's pre and power amps. With the exception of the vishay resistors (available directly from Vishay, but fairly l... | |
| Parasound P/LD-2000 preamp mods? Daltonlanny, The main sonic signature on the 2000 is derived from the use of the caps Parasound uses to bypass each electrolitic. Upgrading those caps alone will help the 2000 a lot. Secondly, going through and replacing the metal film resistors ... | |
| Simaudio preamp for Theta and Snell? The Snell CVs are fairly efficient, but sound much better with plenty of power. I have a pair in my second system. Used to drive them with a Thesold S500; adn later swtiched to a parasound 3500, which gave greater dynamics. Pre amp was a CJ PV10; ... | |
| What's a good beginner turntable at $2500+- range? follow Les_creative_edge suggestion; buy the 1200 Mk2 from KAB and order all the extras, take the left over money and buy a nice MC cart. John | |
| cantilever collapsed on Shure V-15 III don't forget www dot needledepot dot com. | |
| Parasound P/LD-2000 Yep, Ktatterbugaol has it. The power supply is the weak point on this pre; too small. add an outboard 500VA toroid power trans, and the thing really comes to life. Will cost you 50-60 bucks if you do it yourself. | |
| The VPI Rim Drive Stringreen, Hope you enjoy Arizona. Be sure to check out Revolution Records down on Indian School and 7 Ave. And down in Tucson take a day to go through PDQ. BestJohn | |
| Technics 1210/RB-250 vs. stock arm + fluid damper Have to agreee with Tvad, not sure I would say the rega is better than the technics arm.........defininate not if you send it back to KAB and get it re-wired with the Cardas wire. I was really surprised at how well the Technics table from KAB perf... | |
| Device to record & playback music ? Follow Dopogue's suggestion. The only thing I will add is if you want higher resolution than Red Book CD, go for Tascam's DV-RA1000 high res. digital recorder. I will plug into your system just like a cassette deck or CD recorder would. As for CD ... | |
| Budget Phono Stage w/100k Loading for MMs? The loading on a MM is going to effect the high freq. If you want to do it right, get a NAB broadcast test disc, which has all the frequencies on it, and you can dial in the loading for your specific cart, so its ruler flat at the high end. Anythi... | |
| Technics SL1200MK2 Cartridge Discussion be sure to add the 199.00 benz micro, at what ever output level works. | |
| Yamaha CX-10000 centennial preamp Richard, if you do a few upgrades to the CX, it will really sing. I have done similar upgrades to teh CX-1 with outstanding results. JOHn | |
| Computer speakers? I was in the same position. Try the Infinty Beta 10's and drive them with a parasound sound Zamp, the version 3 has 45 or 50 watts per channel. You do the whole combo for under 500 bucks and get decent PC sound. Spend a bit more and get a better s... | |
| Reel 2 Reel Otari MTR-10 and Otari MTR-15 with up graded electronics. also as the auto bias feature which is nice; will auto bias any tape I load on it. |