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| Tips on Buying Quiet Quality sounding LP's Some labels are better than others (and it also depends on the years involved) but frankly it is a pretty much hit and miss affair. Even with labels that have a good reputation, someone is going to get a record from the end of a stamper's producti... | |
| Has my Meridian 506 become an expensive door stop? Typical read problems with a CD player fall in four general areas. 1. Lubrication of the rails that guide the laser mechanism as it rides back and forth over the spinning CD and cleaning the laser lens. 2. Aging of the laser itself which requires ... | |
| FM frequencies cut out by CD player I wouldn't think the problem is preamp input crosstalk. The OP states that the problem is worse above 98.1 MHz on the FM dial and less of a problem below. Crosstalk would affect all the station frequencies equally since it would be occurring at th... | |
| FM frequencies cut out by CD player It would appear from your description that the CD player is emitting RFI (radio frequency interference) in the same band the FM stations are using. That's not unusual. Digital devices can be pretty noisy in the radio spectrum. Are you using an ext... | |
| Lavry DA11 and Apogee Rosetta 200 users I have a Lavry DA-10 that I use with a Squeezebox 3 (Classic) as the digital source using a coax SPDIF connection. The sound is excellent and I have no urge to go looking for upgrades or alternates. The sound is very neutral and does an excellent ... | |
| small speakers Before you determine you don't have enough power, step back a minute and look at all the variables. How loud will you be listening? Amplifier power has a logarithmic relationship to perceived loudness. The amp has to crank out ten times the power ... | |
| Tube vs. Solid State Rectifier Lewhite, not sure that battery power is a practical alternative for tube amps. My two amps need B+ voltages in excess of 400 volts. Not too many readily available batteries meet that need.Alternatively, what's the point of have a lower voltage bat... | |
| Tube vs. Solid State Rectifier Tube rectifiers take a few seconds to come up to voltage so tend to offer a "soft start" to tube gear. They also run at a bit lower voltage than a solid state rectifier. For example, I have a Dynaco ST-70 I rebuilt and have a plug-in solid state m... | |
| tube amp on with speaker wire disconnected Amp damage under those circumstances is a risk, but it is not a certainty. A brief disconnect at medium or lower volume is less likely to cause a problem than an extended open circuit with the amp cranked. Susceptibility to damage is also dependan... | |
| Speaker jumper cables--a type of sound? The classic issues that can make a difference in cables are related to factors such as length, wire diameter, configuration and so on; these affect resistance, capacitance, inductance and can also make the cable sensitive to external EMI influence... | |
| Digital Stream, Is it to soon to make the switch?? - that was a joke.Thanks for the clarification. Sometimes it's hard to tell. | |
| Digital Stream, Is it to soon to make the switch?? How to make a flood?Not too hard to get flooded. The house can be too close to a river or other body of water or you can have a accumulation of surface waters from a heavy rain. Google "downtown houston floods" for some pictures of a major metropo... | |
| Digital Stream, Is it to soon to make the switch?? Not to belabor the point too much, but things do happen. In looking at insurance claim statistics, there were over 400,000 house fires in 2008. Over the past 10 years, the average number of flood claims from outside water sources has been over 50,... | |
| Digital Stream, Is it to soon to make the switch?? Try this perspective - at least with a hard drive system you can easily make a backup copy. You can do that with CDs, but it is a lot more time and work plus more storage space. As for vinyl, what's the game plan if you have a fire at your home or... | |
| Omni Speaker Options Duke - that was an excellent explanation. The only catch is that each person has their own set of priorities when it comes to the order they assign to various sonic characteristics. For one person, that sense of spaciousness may trump a loss of im... |