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| Who makes blue-ray w/universal player ? just saw the 'road test' of a Denon Universal.....don't remember model #.It was also 4500$, which is 9x the OPPO of 95% the performance. Given how temporary formats are these days and the rapid pace of so-called improvements, the OPPO is the no-br... | |
| Can a Magnepan 1.6 be BI AMPED? HiFi,Maggies, the 1.6s in particular are indeed, not a 'bad' load. People that call them such look at impedance and sensitivity without looking at the 3rd leg of load evaluation. ANY amp with reasonable current into 4 ohms will be able to drive 'e... | |
| Can a Magnepan 1.6 be BI AMPED? Caps in the stock 1.6 are Solon and can easily be bettered, but at a price. When going to an aircore inductor, you need to keep in mind that the issued inductor is 16 ga. of 0.4 ohms (DCR) To duplicate this inductor in an aircore requires 14 or 13... | |
| Re-Post: Help? only one subwoofer channel works Uncommon ground? | |
| Fix or buy new/used? OTOH,You could give everything to charity. To the extent that it is fixable, it'll be recycled into someone else's starter system for low $$. 25+ year old stuff that hasn't been run is a while is a problem waiting to happen. EVERY cap is suspect a... | |
| Is my power jinxed? SMPS interaction (somehow?) with the Duet/Quintet?Same speakers? it was ok with the other amp?Are you playing your system lots louder now than with the previous amp?No other house wiring mods? | |
| Does the impedance have to match? In general, it is a good idea for speakers to 'match' in the sense of similar timbre or pitch response. So, while technically it should be possible to run 8ohm speakers as fronts / center you may find yourself being able to point at them instead o... | |
| maggies with bryston 7bssts If I only had the $$ | |
| Bass rant I'd love to have a separate HT room. Failing that, my good 2.1 setup does double duty. I don't mess with any settings. When listening to music, either XM or CD, there is a wide variation in bass quality and quantity.How loud I listen also makes a ... | |
| Cleaning AC plugs, receptacles and other contacts Many of these kinds of contacts are 'self cleaning'I unplug / plug annually.As a side note, I went to turn on my RPTV and the power lamp blinked red 3x, pause and repeat. NOTE: this wasn't the lamp light.Instructions said a lamp connect problem. W... | |
| Bass rant My stereo goes to 11.at least.raising a generation of fat, deaf kids? | |
| Class-D or switching amps, any opinions on?? Tony::Bought my first 'trinatron' 19" w/mechanical tuner for my parents when first available. before that, we had one of the miniature, 'belly top' b/w Sonys'.As for HDTV detail, coming thru small dish, quality depends on amount of compression. mo... | |
| Best whole house surge protection? So, how much $$ to get whole house protection??If I lived in Florida (T-storm capital of America, for sure!) I'd have one installed instantly. It should be part of the building code on new construction if it's inexpensive enough. | |
| Life expectancy of tube components Keeping electronics in a well ventilated / cool space will add years to its life.MTBF (mean time between failure) depends on several things. Grade of parts used. Design complexity / execution. Care of user. | |
| What effect will removing a whizzer cone have? isn't the breakup mode how the original OHM Walsh worked? Not as a piston but a wave traveling thru the cone? |