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| Power conditioner/protection question Stringreen, I've never had a harsh word with anyone on this forum, but for Pete's sake, that You've never had a power incident doesn't mean much. I was leaving on vacation, years ago. That morning, with pretty much 1 foot out the door, the power s... | |
| New Magnepan Hey! I owned MG-1s for over 20 years and thru a factory rebuild. Sold 'em 13 months ago and bought more Magnepan.I wish the new owner the best. If I had the SPACE and 13 large, the 20.1s would be MINE, but could 'only' afford the 1.6s. Would the n... | |
| Can speaker cabinet vibrations be fixed? Never took one apart.....Don't builders use threaded inserts to secure drivers? I would! And some kind of hard, closed cell foam as gasketing. | |
| Adding a subwoofer to a 2 channel amp Powered sub, yep. #1Use the speaker level connections? Also yep. Now MY question! Do you want to run the mains full range?If yes, you don't have to daisy chain the mains thru the sub.Just run another set of wires TO the speaker inputs on the sub. ... | |
| Building a Golden Cuboid Listening Room garage What is the plan? Do a short or long wall setup? Will you be using this for 2ch listening or HT use as well? If 'all new' construction, investigate audio oriented building materials and techniques. Staggering studs is a good idea to decouple inner... | |
| Crossover upgrade capacitor question Wavetrader don't forget that your option is not just 2x8 or a single 16.A 12mfd and a 4mfd would also work.For that matter, 16x1mfd gets you there, too, though space probably won't allow this. Anything that adds up to 16.My Magnepan X-over uses 4 ... | |
| Can I replace/repair a Phillips SACD transport? I have a now-ancient Philips/Magnevox FD1000, the first CD player to be reviewed by Stereophile......Can I still get a laser for it?Also, What transport does my CA840 use? | |
| Tweaks when building a listening room? Is this all new construction?You can 'stagger' the studs. This, with proper insulation will help decouple this room from the one next to it. In this way, the sheetrock in each room will NOT be back-to-back on the same stud.You can also weave some ... | |
| Silver cables and CD players Aluminum? Why? I don't care about its 'sound', which can't be better than a proper Ag or Cu cable, but mechanically, aluminum has no fatigue strength and won't take much bending.No fatigue strength means that EVERY mechanical cycle, as you bend th... | |
| To repair a Subwoofer Toothpicks work fine. Even old paper or wooden matches can do the job.If you are worried about the fumes from Silicon....don't use it! To seal it 'dry', you might be able to make a gasket out of an old bicycle inner tube or even go to one of the h... | |
| Telephones for Audiophiles? Wireless, what happens in Europe where many countries have several languages in common use? The Swiss, for example are a real linguistic crossroads.As for the rest, no wonder it sounds like your talking underwater thru a can and string. | |
| Telephones for Audiophiles? What would you expect? 20->20,000 and sn of 100db?Sorry, CelPhones are supposed to sound like junk. Bandwidth limits, physical speaker/microphone limits and the other artifacts introduced by CDMA / TDMA technology all conspire to limit sound qu... | |
| Telephones for Audiophiles? Provided you EyeSight is holding up OK, you could always learn to TEXT. | |
| WiFi Connection Learn about and configure wireless security, too. That way the neighbor kid won't be looking at porn over YOUR connection | |
| Preamp gain question Find out what the 'taper' of the pot IS.Not all provide the same attenuation for the same amount of rotation. The 2 types are 'linear' and 'logrithmic'(sp). Both start and end at the same place....say 10Kaohms to effectively 0, but have different ... |