marakanetz
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| Is there a cable maven in the house? There are ways described above will work, but to have a true balanced chain I'd replace preamp(which I did myself a while ago). The ideal case when you have directly coupled balanced (no transformer no capacitor) connection between components to h... | |
| Replace pwr cord w/IEC socket on vintage gear? Stltrains,Units built in 60's 70's are very often have more advanced engineering than today's 'pure and minimalistic' designs. Having the fact that parameter tolerances for electronic and passive devices were much less precise, designing a well so... | |
| Replace pwr cord w/IEC socket on vintage gear? Paying near $90 for IEC + spending another $100 for aftermarket powercord isn't worth effort. Having IEC will just be another contact connection instead of solid joint wire. DIY is OK if you're savyy. If powercord is bad, than you can replace it w... | |
| Do Interconnects need to "warm up"? ...and every religion has its own truths and myths indeed.AMEN. | |
| Underrated jazz greats Another treasure from my rarity collection:Pekka Pohjola. | |
| can i improve my system with a better cd player? I'd choose some great universal DAC with 24-bit capability and USB vs. CD player that will be outdated and loose its value speedlight fast.Check out the new Grace M903 with USB, 24-bit, headphone amp and preamp. | |
| Inexpensive Phono Cables Recommendations Manitunc,It shouldn't be of any concern.If you ballpark the impedance of wire to 1 Ohm(which less likely happens even in 6' tonearm wire) and cartridge output .25uV and the load resistance = 100 Ohms, than you'll have a voltage drop ~.0025uV. | |
| The Physics of Electricity Cheap Bic and Golden Dupont cigarette lighters serve the same purpose, but one is 'a-bit' more expencive:-)Many people like Prada, LV, Cavalli, but Polo is just as good and serve the same purpose.I bet that if you're able to alter labels RadioShac... | |
| Underrated jazz greats My list is tooo big.Mark NauseefFreddy StuderTorsten De WinkleMarcus StockhousenJohanes EndersWolfgang HafnerFish for FishNils Peter MolvaerMarcus WasilewskiVlatko StefanowskiTerje RypdalFilipe CatherineCharlie MarianoJasper Vant HoffBo StiefAllan... | |
| iPod & Bose Dock hospital I'd keep Bose Dock. Consider that as a memorabilia.:)Don't play it too loud though after 11pm LOL!Enjoy newborn! Happy birthday Simon! | |
| Inexpensive Phono Cables Recommendations Etrout, OP already got one. | |
| Lyra and VPI Scout I'm married to Lyra forever. Simply the best line of analogue carts. All of them. | |
| Lyra and VPI Scout Your Benz H2 should be deffective and probably having quite a few thousand hours.Other than that Lyras have greater durability and better tracking qualities. | |
| Inexpensive Phono Cables Recommendations I don't think that there's dedicated phono cable between phono preamp and preamp, but you can certainly benefit from balanced XLR cables between these compononents. | |
| Musical Fidelity Buffer ... I also don't understand the benefit of tube being soldered in place. I always thought that tube socket a)thermally insulating hot tube from the rest of circuit/PCB components; b)provides mechanical vibration isolation. On the long run the sold... |