marakanetz
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| Do your music genre choices change w/ the seasons? Now after a long break with my guitar I took it again and I try to pick Steely Dan, Chris Rea, some Pink Floyd and the other light stuff.Normally I'd listen to the more complexed music but picking it on guitar I guess should be after a number of p... | |
| Five "Golden Rules" of HiFi? I object rule #4 and #3 as wellInstead #3 repeat #5 twice.#4 replace "speakers" with "phono cartridge" | |
| An observation about "Modern" classical music. Chad...durin' munch?I wasn't stoned and was enjoying but I admit a great idea...To me Bach is best appreciated stoned + wine and cheese and crackers:-) | |
| An observation about "Modern" classical music. Once in BAM I and my other 2 friends had 2 tickets extra to sell for the concert & video show of Phillip Glass "Koyanisquatsi".We sold these 2 tickets with enough profit to be on this great concert for free...Couldn't book myself for Michael N... | |
| Another article re CD sales Singles are OK for the pop music but would anybody buy "Money" single instead of "Dark Side of the Moon"?Did anybody ever buy Frank Zappa's singles?Even if the whole pop album is great like in Beatles or Bee Gees it's still a collection of singles... | |
| Another article re CD sales i've had also an experience many years ago when i decided to buy the whole album of eaglesnow i hate every single song they sing including hotel california wich was the primary target... | |
| Noisy earphones it's a mechanical sound x-fer dude. you can only avoid it by not touching wires. i guess many folks who excersise with earphones hear wire tapping through their headphones. | |
| Under Appreciated Jazz Piano Players For all times sake check out Sergei Kuriokhin who had always been critisized... | |
| Can you use the same phone stage w 2 turntables if it has two separate inputs and switch between them than you can use it.otherwise you'll have a problem of "stand-by" turntable that will add hum and noise. | |
| What sounds best integrated or separates? I'm with David12 completely.A simplified and budget preamplifier mated with good power amplifier very often can outperform integrated amps for the same price range. | |
| What sounds best integrated or separates? To manufacture large power separates is less costly than same with large power integrated due to the power supply complications for preamp and output section of the amplifier. | |
| No Pain No Gain? It's based on the sufficient input level to your amplifier.Usually your amplifier must have near-maximum volume with knob cranked up few minutes past 1 o'clock... | |
| one channel dead as a door nail Dude,You've probably hassled too much with NOS tubes on ebay...Is there anywhay for you to check/adjust bias on your amp's power tubes? | |
| Break in period The bottom line is if you like sound out of box than you don't need to worry about break-in. | |
| Preamp Eats tubes.. Raquel,on quite a few preamps the preamp tube are peak-driven like a power tubes and so the life of them will shorten significantly when left on 24/7.in power amplifiers the bypass electrolytic caps can wear out faster than tubes turned on 24/7 th... |