minkwelder
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| Super-sensitive volume controls - remedy? Thanks for all your input. After posting, I did some searches for the attenuators and found that this issue comes up fairly often.I am using the MM input for the DL-160 and can't imagine what the Shure would be like. As for speaker sensitivity, it... | |
| Super-sensitive volume controls - remedy? I have read some very negative things about the attenuators, but others seemed very enthusiastic about them, which leads me to be very cautious about going that route. I would especially not want to "work my way up the price ladder" for something ... | |
| Super-sensitive volume controls - remedy? Thanks for the responses everyone. I guess maybe I need to rethink where I'm going with all this. The Parasound 2100 seemed like a good idea because of the number of inputs (including phono) and HT bypass and all. I actually don't have as many sou... | |
| Super-sensitive volume controls - remedy? I know live sound is different, but when I was running sound for my bands, I set the board to run at unity gain and then used the input trims on the power amp to control the gain structure. I almost considered a pro amp just to get that level of c... | |
| Speaker Set Up...Math/Geometry Experts Please Help Yes, 0.7539 degrees. I remember having a pair of Vandersteen 1C's and the manual had setup directions like that which used a plumb line in back and a dimension to the bottom which was based on the distance to the listening position and ear height.... | |
| Speaker Set Up...Math/Geometry Experts Please Help "According to the graph supplied from the manufacturer, we need a rake (tilt) of a 1/2 inch. This is measured using a plumb bob hanging from the back of the speaker, (which is perfectly flat). You measure the distance from the string to the back b... | |
| Walwarts That's funny, Branislav! I initially thought Linisfarne's post said Walmart. The term "wall wart" is a slang term for a type of power supply that transforms AC power from an outlet into DC power. The transformer and other circuitry is contained in... | |
| Walwarts Wall warts are not all the same. They are marked with the DC voltage and maximum current output. Some of them have different sized plugs and even reversed polarity. The components they belong to should be marked to indicate the voltage and polarit... | |
| asheville audiophiles Just make sure when you turn off the breaker that you check both plugs for current. Occasionally you will encounter an outlet where the two plugs are on different circuits. Don't ask me how I know. Zzzzap!!! | |
| speaker cone doping? I should revise my first statement above to say that SOME of the early AR's, including the AR-2ax, had cloth surrounds. If they're foam, forget everything I said!I do not think it is advisable to put anything on the paper cones. | |
| speaker cone doping? The AR's are an acoustic suspension design which uses very compliant woofers that have a cloth surround. The cloth was doped to maintain the acoustic seal. Sometimes the sealant fails over time and develops pinholes which allows for excessive cone... | |
| Who believes that Robert Plant Not me! | |
| The Biggest Album Release of All Time... Not only is it free to download, it was loaded onto my iPhone without my knowledge. I didn't know about it until this morning when a friend at work mentioned it was downloaded (uploaded??) onto his iPhone. I checked mine and, sure enough, it was t... | |
| Tannoy/Micro TM55DD turntable This turntable is probably a Micro Seiki rebadged for Tannoy. Check out: vinylengine.com for a possible match. Micro Seiki had some "DD" model numbers which leads me to believe you will find a match there. | |
| Rockwell: audiophile term "just like a pedophile" According to Kenny, we don't really like music because we're too obsessed with the equipment which, ironically, HE REVIEWS!! His website includes a plea to help support his family, which reads in part:"I support my growing family through this webs... |