mitch2
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| buyer beware of late Several days ago, I made an offer to buy from someone with no feedback. I told them I would only do the deal via UPS COD. Fortunately, I know our UPS guy and he will let me look at the item and even quickly power it up before handing over the fund... | |
| Personal amp evolution Time for an upgrade on this thread;Fisher Receiver- not one of the classics :(Sansui Receiver- worked great and got me through college NAD3140 Integrated - a classic, still powers my 2nd systemNAD2150 Bridged w/3140(still works great)Adcom 5300- t... | |
| Best Balanced Solid State/Tube Preamps I wish I had a preamp that combined the best of both. Such a beast probably exists, but I suspect at a much higher price.Tvad,my dilemma exactly - Tim | |
| Best Balanced Solid State/Tube Preamps Tvad, why did you just sell your Modwright? It looked like a sweet set up in which you put some extra thought and money with the black gates and all. What did you find to work better?To Kmiller5, why not an Ayre preamp? They are consistently held ... | |
| Drying sand in the oven- anyone try it? this is a weird thread. we dry sand in our lab at work so it can be tested. my recommendation would be first DO NOT dry sand in your kitchen oven unless you want your wife to divorce you or have you declared an idiot. buy dry silica sand as others... | |
| Toughest hombre west of the Pecos? The governor of California, and of course being a cyborg, the Terminator likes solid state! | |
| Is balanced necessarily better? Another thought I have heard regards phase effects, and the inability of some balanced cable makers to appropriately design cables to resist phase shift, which might be one reason some believe single-ended sounds better for home audio. I heard one... | |
| Is balanced necessarily better? Thanks guys, this is the type of interesting discussion from experienced folks I was hoping this thread would generate. I am in the process of moving equipment around which prompted getting some 3m ics so I can shorten speaker cable runs. I am goi... | |
| Modwright CD player problem...HELP I was going to purchase a magic years ago, but first tried running my cable through my Monster power conditioner that I use for HT only, and that solved the problem. | |
| Preamp impedance mismatch with McCormack DNA2 Ditto what Kal says, the SF Line 2 and 3 SE both sounded great with my DNA500, however they both have quite low output impedence for tube preamps, below 100 ohms in the case of the Line 3. Steve's answer is the conventional "amp input should be at... | |
| Muse Model Nine Signature vs. Model Ten Define "much." Kevin Halverson of Muse told me the Ten was an upgrade over the Nine Sig V4 on redbook CD. The Ten also plays DVD-Audio, and according to Kevin is Muse's top redbook CD player, even better on redbook than the Universal Player Model ... | |
| DIY cables Vs Mass market cables. Out of the responses so far, hardly anyone has provided Aldres with answers to his question, "how DIY cables compare to audio brand speaker cables." I suspect we can be of more help to him. I do agree with Tgrisham that a forum search would yield ... | |
| New home - shoulda woulda coulda's I just finished one last year and ran four dedicated circuits to the audio area, 1 at 30 amps for the amplifier and the rest at 20 amps, should be enough. I used P&S outlets. Consider a whole house surge protector. Also, I would recommend lots... | |
| Benefit of Tri or Quad Wire compared to Bi wire My personal experience is there may be some benefit separating the LF from the MF/HF, but beyond that I would upgrade to a higher quality cable before buying more of a lower quality cable, given the same amount of money to work with. That is what ... | |
| What's your profession? Age? Civil/Geotechnical Engineer, firm principal, manager, and occasional professor. 48 yrs old. I'm trying to groom a few protege's so I can start to relax and ride my bikes more. Main system retails at just under $30K with cables and tweeks. |