larryi
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| Repair Shop In VA / Washington DC - Rec Please If you are into tube gear, Deja Vu Audio is THE store to visit--they only sell tube amplification (except for trade-in gear). Much of their amps, linestages, phono stages, some DACs are either built in house or by their own exclusive builders. T... | |
| Repair Shop In VA / Washington DC - Rec Please I have not dealt with HiFi Heaven in Falls Church Virginia, but, they too have a good reputation in the area. | |
| Repair Shop In VA / Washington DC - Rec Please One of the very best repair shops in the DC area, with a good reputation for the whole eastern part of the country is Music Technology, in Springfield Va. The head honcho, Bill Thalmann is very good with both solid state and tube gear. | |
| External PSU shuts down the breaker This unit has a low voltage linear power supply for a solid state phono preamp/equalizer. It should not have a massive bank of capacitors that would draw enough current to trip any kind of breaker. I would not fool around with something that mig... | |
| External PSU shuts down the breaker Perhaps it is tripping a ground fault interrupter (GFI) circuit protector in your home while the problem is not a dead short that would trip the circuit breaker at the stereo shop if it did not have GFI protection. In any case, I would not want s... | |
| Deja Vu Audio 300B Mono Amps I think you should first e-mail Deja Vu Audio and include the photos. They might be able to offer some help on this. They have had a number of builders over the years, but, one of their current people might be able to help.I would also have the ... | |
| The Harbeth phenomenon Good OTL's are astonishing in the way they deliver a lively, immediate and vibrant sound. But, as Jsautter mentioned, most require a speaker with a high and/or flat impedance curve because the output impedance of these amps are high (the only way... | |
| Astoudingly good recording of Wagner's Parsifal I found it on Arkivmusic as a Halle CD (4 discs). I haven't pulled the trigger on buying it, but, I probably will buy it. The singers are not top talent, which is a bit of a problem with something as difficult to sing as most of the roles in Par... | |
| Power Amp advice Doesn't the Parasound have toroidal power transformers? If that is the case, these tend to hum if there is DC offset coming from your power circuit. You should looking into getting a DC blocker for your AC line. These are not that expensive. | |
| speaker repair Almost any foam surround is subject to deterioration with age, particularly if exposed to strong light or if the air has high levels of ozone (location in a city). Rubber lasts longer, but rubber will eventually harden. The longest lasting surro... | |
| Astoudingly good recording of Wagner's Parsifal Parsifal is one of my favorite Wagner opera. Thanks for the heads up on a decent sounding version. I have put it my Arkivmusic shopping cart. Do you know if the recording comes with a decent booklet with a libretto (I hate the fact that most CD... | |
| What is the one piece of advice you would give about attending AXPONA? Three days is a lot of time, so I would use the first day to do a quick survey to find the rooms you are most interested in doing a bit more long-term listening. Make notes about which room because it is easy to forget or get confused. The first... | |
| Tube Integrated Pairing For Harbeth Monitor 30.1 My local dealer shows both the 30.2 and SHL5+ with only tube amps. The store does not sell any solid state amps, so the speakers all must be tube friendly. He considers the Harbeth line to be tube friendly. The line of integrated amps he most c... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? A very rough experiment could be done with a blank record. One could set anti-skating so that the arm stays roughly in place at a certain radius for 33.33 rpm, and then set the stylus down at the same point when playing a 45 rpm record. If the s... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? The coefficient of friction between sliding surfaces is not determined by a simple Newtonian physics equation. At different velocities the value changes--it generally increases with increased velocity. The shape, elastic properties of the surfac... |