marakanetz
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| I'm frustrated with people who don't ... Well, Don't be...It's realy easy to find a good CD-player among above 1k ones but very hard to find in low-hundreds range and even among carousels. Some of cheap Best Buy ones will sound like crap but some of them do deserve attention... | |
| Steel shot Steel shot tends to get magnetized depending on magnetic permitivity, strength of the driver and the distance from such.I have a friend who's using Atabites steel shots and after removing them they didn't seem to be magnetized. | |
| Listening Chairs Since it's not comfortable to be in bed and listening there should be some intercourse comfort in the chair also...:-) | |
| Got any of your dream system yet? Everything stays except room. | |
| Burn in procedure? No, You can burn interconnects even aside from the amp or components:1. Connect the ends of an interconnect to the DMM test leads using an aligator clips2. Connect one test lead to the HOT prong of the AC recepticle and another test lead to NEWTRA... | |
| Sonus Faber Cremona Auditor and Krell And I'm not sure even other way arround. | |
| make-over for amp. Parts?First-off, having an equipment that hasn't played for almost decade, I'd take off the covers and clean the circuit boards with soft paint brush preferably outdoors.Second I'd give it a basic service:Inspect with monocular and fix bad solder ... | |
| make-over for amp. Do you mean changing/upgrading components?I wouldn't do that!I would assemble another system instead and keep it running as-is. | |
| Need help w/ B&W CM2 1. There are much better speakers in the price range than CM2. No matter what amplification you use or cables you can't can't can't make honey from ...2. If you add a-bit to your budget you may go for a pair of Totem Mite or Totem Dreamcatcher. | |
| Electro Harmonix valves vs... Update:Tried EH valves in my VTLs. They have better bass controll but its reliability is totally unaccaptable! Will never ever use them again.Currently use 6CA7 yugoslavian fat bottles flowlessly with advantages of both: Svets and EH. | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? Update for weekend version:1988 Imperial V240 24' with 350/270Hp Mercruiser, Volvo I/O.Cabin with bathroom, shower, stove, fridge, 4-sleaping cushions, new full-camper canvas...It takes me arround the bay for fishing and pleasure.My dream is for n... | |
| Is table really more importsnt than cartridge? No matter how complexed could be the decision point there's always a limit or the point after you won't recognize any improvements no matter how big and expencive your analogue setup is. In addition to the two mentioned variables here comes certai... | |
| Douglas Self on Negative feedback and distortion Sunfire line of Bob Carver isn't crap at all by specs and sound as well. | |
| Douglas Self on Negative feedback and distortion Hammy, and you're missing mine:The one that truely specs out great MUST sound great.If the one that specs out great and doesn't sound great it means the specs are NOT true.Nowdays specs mean completely NOTHING unless you're purchasing a profession... | |
| totem model 1 signature Sberger,It's just very common way to motivate to get something different:Andy2 just like certian people non uniquely trying to motivate you that you're about changing McDonald's lunch for Ruby Tuesday. |