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Mosfet mist?
How many posters have spent any time in a fabrication facility seeing how semiconductors are made? 
Anyone replaced Fuse with Circuit Breaker?
someone else with the same question......and some test equipment.http://www.campbells.org/Airplanes/airplaneCircuitBreakersVsFuses.htmlinteresting conclusions. 
Important Re Opamp Rolling Plus Version of EE DAC
Get the 'specs'.....the Data Sheet on the OEM opamps.....Any others with same pinout / voltage should work as well.Am I missing something? My headphone amp....a DIY, uses OPA2134 family but about a dozen others will also work. 
set top box or combination satellite receiver rgb
Didn't the 'powers that be' mandate NO HD output except thru HDMI? Something to do with copy protection......By RGB to you mean component? This is NOT rgb but rather more complicated.My computer? now that's RGB, as is my digital camera. 
Armoire between speakers
Bizango.....I'll bet your fish are big fins of Handel? 
Complete newbie needing guidance/purchase advice
When buying a new system from the 'newbie' level, you can either.....1. Take a poll at any price point and buy someone elses system.2. Listen to gear and find what YOU value and go for that in your choices. I suspect you can, by following #2 get t... 
LOOKING FOR A GOOD HDMI CABLE
15$ / 7 foot from Fry's performs as well as the 35$ cable from BlueJeans which performs as well as the 10$ cable from a no-name store. As long as the bandwidth is there, you'll never see the diff.A little spritz of DeOxit on a annual basis is all ... 
Are Cables Better Than High Grade Speaker Wire?
Cables / Wire are the '3rd rail' of hi-fi.Several different camps all with their own drum to beat.The RCI camp. Fundamental good measures are the key to good cabling. Exotic design camp. Everything from multi-strand magnet wire to #12 solid for sp... 
Armoire between speakers
My panels are about 60"+ inside to inside and I sit about 11' away.Sound improved a LOT when I removed a RPTV from between 'em. The set was probably about 6 cubic feet, which is pretty good sized. I could imagine a big help from getting rid of a b... 
what would cause volume to sudden ramp up to full?
Wolf,What the heck 'ya doing playing Helicopter when you're supposed to be listening? Pay attention. Dish Network has an RF remote for some receivers.....use it from the other room.I found out my neighbor had the same remote so I had fun for a whi... 
Problem with bi amping speakers
I'll give 8:3 Al is right. 
Magnepan announces the 20.7
Are they (magnepan) simply going to 'skip' 20.2->.6? 
Complete newbie needing guidance/purchase advice
Don't just 'buy speakers'.Buy Speakers and amp...TOGETHER.Of course, I'm skipping what some consider the most important part...the Source. Many would even start there. If you buy speakers alone, you will lock yourself into an amp 'style' in that s... 
Bi-amp center channel speaker with one stereo amp?
A few questions.What is the crossover point? How much power do you think you lack or how much louder to you need it to play?Will the rest of the system 'keep up'?The only 'glitch' to the 'Y' adaptor is if the amp has low input impedance and/or the... 
What is the function/pupose of music plyr/streamer
Steve, in what way are ALAC and Airplay 'flawed'? As near as I can tell, you can reconstruct a bit-accurate copy of the original file using ALAC. or FLAC, for that matter. Correct me if I'm wrong. My airport express has NO decoding codex resident....