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| playing "top-damaged" CDs ? Warm soapy water should work. Just like soaking a label off of a glass jar. | |
| How Much Do Aesthetics Factor Into Your Decisions? It would bother me if every component faceplate was a different color - black, gold,silver,red,etc.Cabinet doors would be required. Unusual looking speakers that sounded incredible to me I would decorate the room to compliment them.Sound is number... | |
| Subwoofer Advice & Therapy :) As long as there is trial period choose one with a phone app.Set up is a breeze.One issue that hopefully won't come up is if the corner you've chosen is a dead spot.In my room two corners are ideal for subs,the other two are bass dead zones. | |
| Animals and audiophiles I've got three dogs.Two of them just leave the room if they don't like what's playing. One seems to enjoy almost everything and often lays close to a speaker blasting loud music. It doesn't hurt them and their hearing is fine.I know this because t... | |
| Is My Tube Amp Unfixable? Help Needed I'm not sure if this will help at all, but I used to own a pair of QS mid monos and one of them just stopped working. I sent it to Mike and he said there was nothing wrong with it and sent it back.It did work for a few days, then died again. The ... | |
| Dust Removal Same here,gravel road and three dogs that shed all summer. I keep them covered with squares of fabric and vacuum the speakers. There are custom covers you can buy also.There's one or two companies that come up if you Google it. | |
| Some observations from a former skeptic - and a question When I lived in a large city 20+ years ago a power conditioner was a must.I didn't realize how much noise was on the line until it was eliminated. Now being out in the boonies good surge protection is all that is needed now as there's no noise I c... | |
| Xangsane XS-1001Ag silver coax SPDIF cable @rolox I'm not familiar with Xangsane,but will definitely check them out. I recently replaced a silver, copper,gold coax with a solid silver from Voodoo and experienced much the same result as you did.Congrats! | |
| Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile? @johnfritter above the yellow bar on your personal page between the A and the search bar is an arrow.Click on that and then choose virtual system:-) Don't forget to save when you're done. | |
| How tall do you like your images? Right now the images are a little too low,as if the musicians are all seated at my level.If I play with toe in they become taller and the soundstage wider.One of these days I'll spend the time to readjust, but the speakers are so heavy.I prefer th... | |
| XLR cable recommendations needed Audio Art sells silver plated copper exclusively.I've bought from them in the past. DH Labs as mentioned above is a good choice also. | |
| Best Tube Amp for High Sensitivity Speakers: 45, PX25, or 300B? This has been a most informative thread. As I'm waiting patiently for my Decware amp,other people's experience and knowledge is of great value. The simple pleasure tube amps site is really impressive, thanks for sharing that. | |
| My thermostat plays Jazz and I don't know what to think about that. An in wall subwoofer should be your next upgrade;-) | |
| Stereophile review of Millercarbon system featuring Tektron speakers Love him or hate him it's possible that was his first and last U.S.audio show. I saw a post of his on the Decware FB group where he claimed he was moving to EL Salvador. | |
| Cardas vs Cardas vs Shunyata interconnects decooney has experimented with more cables than I though I've tried many myself. What I have found is it's usually a mistake to go with one line throughout: example all Cygnus.The one thing that irritates you (brightness) would be compounded.Mixin... |