kjweisner
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| Where to buy SACD's ? Music Direct (www.amusicdirect.com) is a Chicago based retailer/mail order shop that sells both hardware and software. They have an excellent color catalog (free) and are great to deal with. I have purchased thousands of dollars worth of equipment... | |
| Tube Home Theater PreAmp? Sugarbrie makes an excellent point! I have a BAT VK-3i which has a "Unity Gain" setting, whereby it will pass two channels (L/R) directly to the power amp without attenuation or gain. This allows a separate processor to send its L/R signal through... | |
| Anyone rediscovering their old LP's? Ditto, all the way around. Theres a lot of treasure buried under a very thin layer of schmutz.In my experience, most jazz or big band from the 50s and 60s is magnificent on vinyl. A Recordings were straigt up, unprocessed and the pressings were am... | |
| Tube Home Theater PreAmp? I think that Fosgate is building an all tube surround pre-amp, but have no first-hand experience. | |
| The "A" List C'mon. . .it's Elvis! Last seen in a '93 F-150 with Colorado plates, pulling into a Krispy Kreme. | |
| Need help with Turntable set-up in San Diego Stereo Design in Clairemont Mesa is a Rega shop (or at least they were when I moved from SD back in 2000). I had purchased a new Benz Micro cartridge from them, and they set it up on my 'purchased elsewhere' Pro-ject TT. Not sure how they feel abo... | |
| My North Star DAC -not picking up Toslink from STB I had a very similar situation last month with my Samsung STB to Marantz SR 8500 using toslink. And I discovered in much the same way you did--by changing out a component. What I eventually found is that the toslink cable was the culprit! If subje... | |
| Marantz SA 8260 Disc Error Thanks for the responses, as well as the AA link. Sadly, this seems like a design/build issue and one I'll probably end up having to live with. Will keep me away from any future Marantz purchases, though. | |
| XM now sounds worse I would definitely agree with your take on the different channels. I wonder if there is a difference in bandwidth that is allocated to the different channels. Seems like a plausible idea given that the fidelity needed for talk would be less than t... | |
| How does home theatre pass through work? To add a bit to the discussion, when in HT pass mode, most pre-amps go into "Unity Gain" mode which simply means that the volume control of the preamp is neither attenuating the signal, nor is it adding gain. It is as though the volume control has... | |
| XM now sounds worse I don't know if this even remotely helps because it's more a response about XM quality overall, and introduces new variables. I receive XM as part of my DirectTV package and have it enabled through a Marantz processed and powered home theater with... | |
| Is Martin Logan goin to Big Box stores? There are also now being sold in Best Buy stores that have a Magnolia home theater section. Ultimate Audio, which is part of the Tweeter group is also retailing M/L these days. Most of what they stock is the aimed at the HT marketing. Smaller M/L ... | |
| Single ended to XLR adapter I agree with Albertporter that adding adaptors simpy adds more connection points (and opportunity for degradation).That said, if it were me, I'd have to know just to satisfy my own curiousity. If you want to do a cheap experiment, go to Markertek ... | |
| Small or Large? DCM TimeFrame Powered Premier Does the speaker have a separate line-level input for the powered sub?If so, you will select Small and then route the SUB or LFE line level output from the receiver to the speaker.If the speakers do NOT have a separate line level input , then the ... | |
| Are balanced interconnects usually better? I agree with much of what has been said, and offer a couple of other thoughts that haven't been fully explored. First, for a piece of equipment to be truly balanced, it has often has two sets of circuits for each channel, one for both the positive... |