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| what Ipod dock would you buy? This looks like a good one:http://www.cooperhandtools.com/brands/CF_Files/model_detail.cfm?upc=037103115225Seriously though, for casual use a 3.5mm adapter cable is all that's needed. Universally compatible, too. I've set up and programmed my shar... | |
| New Fuse Thread . . . Rodman, he doesn't want that answer.Ooooo, baby! Why don't YOU tell me what I WANT to hear . . . that's soooo hot . . .Anyway, I'm taking you up on this, Rodman . . . I ordered two Hi-Fi Tuning 2A slow-blow fuses from Acoustic Sounds, they have th... | |
| New Fuse Thread . . . Gentlemen, please. The other fuse thread was a fine place to argue about these generalities . . . Rodman and Albert, I'm glad you're happy with the improvements the fuses have made; if you please, I'd be interested in knowing the values and circui... | |
| New Fuse Thread . . . Dave, let me put it this way. The best way to get repeatable results is to understand what you're doing and what you're changing. And it's obvious to me that if I wanted to duplicate the results of those who have heard audible improvements . . . t... | |
| Projector and Screen recommendations Hi Russ,The modern "microperf" screens are very good in terms of audio quality, especially when they're used in front of the center channel only . . . which to my ear needs more X-curve compensation (HF rolloff) than the other channels for movie s... | |
| Projector and Screen recommendations Hi Semi,One thing that seems to accentuate the perception of being "too bright" is if you actually have some "hot-spotting", meaning that your picture is brighter in some areas than others. This occurs with higher-gain screens with short projector... | |
| Projector and Screen recommendations The classic calculation for screen brightness is:Projector Lumens / Screen area (sq. feet) * screen gain = Brightness (in foot-Lamberts, or fL).Target brightness is 12-15 fL in a darkened room, maybe around 20-ish with a little ambient light. But ... | |
| Stylus shape and skating force The problem is that Ortofon's quality, in my experience, isn't really up to their name. 2 out of 2 cartridges where delivered with a bent cantilever (the sound was dreadful) and had to return them...That's really sad to hear. I used to set a lot o... | |
| One speaker louder Assuming that you have indeed confirmed that it's the speaker and not something else, that is, you've swapped them left for right and the sound follows the speaker, then there are only a couple of possibilities:1. Damaged speaker - a failure in th... | |
| Stylus shape and skating force The "ungrooved record test" has absolutely no correlation to a proper anti-skating force . . . actually, it has absolutely no meaning at all, especially with an elliptical or fine-line stylus.This is because any reasonably modern elliptical stylus... | |
| For the analog purist- to room correct or not? There's no reason why you can't perform effective room correction purely in the analog domain - you just won't find a cute all-in-one hardware/software solution that does it for you. But a look at your system suggests that you're not shy to put in... | |
| XLR-RCA: Adapters or Custom Cable? May I know how does these affect the sound if not "connected" as said?If you get the pin-2-hot/pin-3-hot connection schemes switched around, then the phase will be reversed . . . refer to all the classic arguments for absolute phase as to whether ... | |
| Help I need to locate a part Rodman, your link is to an OPA627, and that's an opamp, NOT a dual JFET. They're, uh . . . different. Using it as a sub would be like trying to substitute a brake caliper for a carburetor.These things were kinda in vogue in the early 1980s, and we... | |
| Help I need to locate a part Spectral, when last I spoke with them would not touch something if anyone else had been in it.Wow, that's really lame support. If I was in their position, I'd WANT it back so I could be sure that it was working the way it was supposed to. Of cours... | |
| Scratchy distortion on last tracks of CD When the CD is badly pitted (CD Rot) then the data can no longer be reconstructed using error correction and the player often interpolates between one data point and another.I think you're getting the concepts of mathematical interpolation, "inter... |