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| "Trickle up" theory A FEW CORRECTIONS TO "THEORY".The price paid for home audio system not neccessarily have to be expencive but the purposes may be different for different rooms.Amp and speakers are two the most expencive components that contain the largest design e... | |
| Power Cord upgrade for Sim Audio Titan amp??? The sources for the best aftermarket powercords are:www.digikey.com, www.mca.newark.com and www.newark.com for any power and current rating you need.They're the raw material used inside of the mega-priced ones under the nice snake skins. | |
| Gain Matching of Amps You may use the passive volume controll towards D240 amp to tame its gain. Adjusting the tone balance to your ear will dictate the best listening conditions you choose. | |
| Is a 14' x 21' room too big for Totem Hawks? I have my Forrests in 12' x 16' room driven by 100W mono tube amps.Having Forrests in larger like yours or even bigger room ended up with mooving them to the smaller room.Smaller room implied to larger pleasure.If you add sub or pair than probably... | |
| Marimba music "Gong" of Pierre Moerlene.Also check out Ed Mann often played with Frank Zappa. | |
| Victoriaville jazz fest, are you going??? OOPS! I mean more precisely! :-) | |
| mapleshade listen to their beautiful knobs dude! | |
| Best way to clean records For a buck no quiestion, VPI.You can also shop at kabusa.com to find the record cleaner adapter to your home vacume cleaner as well that can save you some but not as much as you can buy used VPI 16.5. | |
| Victoriaville jazz fest, are you going??? Anyone knows mofer precisely where's it? | |
| Big caps v Little caps First of all, the high-voltage filter capacitors have a certain size and in most cases even a low-capacitance/high voltage filter caps are quite large. It will probably require much larger space to mount 10 100uf/300V caps than to mount 2 x 500uf/... | |
| Are ARC new amps much better than older models? In general all of them are great no matter SS or tube.The older models probably would need some service to be done with newer better parts.The older D series ARC amps are increadible, simple and great sounding and will sound on the level of new on... | |
| TVC vs. active pre? OK folks,Have you ever gone from active pre to built-in volume control card inside of your poweramp?If not, than THAT I consider as BEST option for any system that negates ANY impedance matching, compression or roll-offs of any kind that may or ma... | |
| Noise from tweeter Do you hear distortion when playing the music?To check it more clear turn on quiet the music preferably with emphisized cymbals and alphas and listen closer to the tweeter. Vary the volume safely to hear distortions go up or don't appear at all.Al... | |
| Electronic keyboards grammar... Rockvirgo,You've got my point.I want to know differences not only sonic but someway structural as well.Can't that be just one synthesizer that can sound as all of Hammonds, Rhodes, Oberheim etc... or those mentioned have a very specific and unrepe... | |
| Norah Jones on Bluenote?? Mghcanuck,The link is very simple:To compare with Britney's repertoire Norah's one is "too expencive". To compare with the rest of Blue Note repertoire seems to be "too cheap". To compare with compeeting during Gramys Bruce Springsteen, well, it's... |