minorl
Responses from minorl
| Identify this hum, please I agree with Atmasphere's approach. | |
| Audio Research Ref 250s for Magnepan 20.1s? Take a paire of REF 250s home and demo them in your system. Any dealer worth their salt will let you take a pair home for a week or so. You will find these amps to be absolutely wonderful. Also, if you are listening solely to vinyl, then you might... | |
| Identify this hum, please Connect your source (CD or TT) to pre-amp, connect your pre-amp to the amp and connect the amp to the speakers. Hum? yes? then turn off components and disconnect your source (CD or TT) from the pre-amp. Turn on components. hum? no? then it is the ... | |
| Why can you buy a car at dealer Invoice but audio Roundmoundofsound; I totally agree with you. There are good dealers out there with good salespeople that are above board. I know they won't give away the farm and they have to make money to stay in business. But there is a difference between makin... | |
| Why can you buy a car at dealer Invoice but audio I meant to write "went with my significant other" | |
| Why can you buy a car at dealer Invoice but audio Go check out the book, what car dealers don't want you to know.It is a serious eye opener for this type of business practice. I actually read the book from cover to cover and went with your significant other to help her purchase a new Tahoe SUV a ... | |
| Why can you buy a car at dealer Invoice but audio Highly recommended undercoating treatment. Now thats funny. | |
| 450 Pound Monobloc Amplifier Mapman; No I haven't heard any class D amps with my Martin Logans. I would be very interested in hearing some. If Jeff Rowland amps are Class D, then I know he did it right. Switching power supplies are not new. They were/are used in auto amps bec... | |
| 450 Pound Monobloc Amplifier Kijanki: You will get no disagreement from me. At present I haven't heard a Class D amp that I really liked much. However, I haven't heard the New Jeff Rowland equipment lately. But, I have always really liked Jeff Rowland equipment anyway. Well d... | |
| 450 Pound Monobloc Amplifier I don't believe that an amp has to be heavy to sound good. But, I do know to get rated power over the specified bandwidth, you need a serious power supply supply. you can't get around it. Which means that the tranformers must be huge and heavy. La... | |
| 450 Pound Monobloc Amplifier The lighter amplifiers I have listened to are okay to great with efficient speaker loads at lower power levels. but, give them a difficult load or inefficient speakers and we have a problem. I prefer to not have to change my amps when I change spe... | |
| 450 Pound Monobloc Amplifier Power supply, power supply, power supply. You can't get around it, unless you get creative with switching power supplies. you need massive transformers (very heavy) and if sophisticated, massive coils (also very heavy). Efficient heat sinking is a... | |
| How to protect against burglary "Do you think we incur burglary risk by posting system details and gallery photos of our system in this or other forums?"Yes I do. If people can somehow track where you live. It may not happen on a forum such as this, but other places, it may happ... | |
| The issue of lowballing... What does that mean? Fortunately, whenever I sold items on Audiogon, I have never been "desperate". So, I investigated the "market price" for the item, remembered how long I have owned it or how old it was to determine how much to mark it down or mark it up in the eve... | |
| How to protect against burglary Home security systems with cameras (not necessary but helps) are a good deterent. Thieves do not like noisemakers. They don't want attention drawn to them. If people are watching, they prefer to go elsewhere. if you have signs in front that advert... |