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| Question for DIY people: Butcher block shelving?? Slipknot1: Thanks for putting some links where my mouth was :~)>N | |
| Question for DIY people: Butcher block shelving?? The IKEA product is not maple, it's cheap beech. And it has a hollow core, and I'll betcha ten bucks it makes a nice hollow sound when you rap your knuckles on it. Tung oil and wax makes a nice finish, if you don't think you might ever have to rep... | |
| Question for DIY people: Butcher block shelving?? The IKEA stuff will not perform like real butcher block. It's like airplane food -- looks and smells like the real thing but has no nutritional value! Your MDF is probably at least just as good.If you want a sonic improvement, you need "end grain"... | |
| In what ways is Mark Levinson better than Krell? Yes Larry, but there also a ton of Levinson wanted ads as well. | |
| Sub Panel hook up Question?? I'd keeo the BP panel close to the devices it serves. If that puts it far away from your main panel, just use something like 8AWG between them. And even if you use Romex instead of pulling separate wires, it's nice to run it in steel flex conduit ... | |
| King of the Hill If it sounds like live performance to you, you're there!If you're not sure (can't remember?) what a live performance sounds like, and/or how close your your audio system approaches what YOU hear at a live performance, then you really should get ou... | |
| Equipment that has made you 'stop' looking? Everything in my system is as good as I can afford/appreciate except (maybe) a more expensive (better?) cartridge at some point, but I'm not particularly even jonesing for that right now! | |
| In what ways is Mark Levinson better than Krell? jvogt -- you are half right/wrong about your mid-nineties Levinson experience. The 27.5 is a pretty great amp, but the 23, 25, and 26 were all merely adequate, nothing special. However their successors, the 23.5, 25S, and 26S were (and still are) ... | |
| In what ways is Mark Levinson better than Krell? I agree w/ Larry. There is a stable of Madrigal/Levinson "Golden Age" components. I've had my 23.5 amp for 14 years and more recently nailed a 26s preamp and a 25s phono preamp. They are all in a class by themselves, which I would say is best desc... | |
| Shielding for FM tuner? The problem with ferrite core clamp on filters is that they saturate with radio frequency energy very quickly, even the big fat ones, and once they do, they might as well not be there.I'm tellin' ya, if you really want a quiet FM background, put f... | |
| Shielding for FM tuner? Both your CDP (actually the DAC part, not the transport part) and your computer are putting out RFI (radio frequency interference) from their power cords, which act like transmitting antennas (even though the power cord may have a ferrite collar a... | |
| Problem: Power. Solution: ? Euphoria and beyond! Now yer talkin'!! | |
| Problem: Power. Solution: ? I like (both of) the ExactPower units. I think, after doing a lot of due diligence and research that for now anyway, they get more things right design-wise than the others, and are therefore a better value. But that's just my conclusion. (I am not... | |
| Should you use cleaner on your stylus? OK I'll try the Mr. Clean, but have any of you Mr. Clean users also used the Zerodust? It gets my stylus immaculate and it's a soft gel-like material. Why would Mr. Clean be a better choice? | |
| Should you use cleaner on your stylus? It depends on whether hou have a hollow tube cantilever (NO) or a solid cantilever (OK, if you want to). Go to the forum search and type in "stylus cleaning" in the search window. Then select either 'match exactly' or 'match all words' and click "... |