nsgarch
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| Is Mark Levinson amp no. 23 a classic like 23.5? $1500 is an exvellent price for a 23 (if it's in 8/10 condition) but you'd have to pay at least $2500 for a 23.5.I owned both and can tell you the 23 is an excellent amp but no better than many dual-monos in that power class. The 23.5 is in a clas... | |
| Eben loudspeakers I'm a clean-freak, which is why I'm addicted to stats. But these speakers had an effortless presentation and authority that I'd only heard with the big Soundlabs and also a Keith Johnson-modified pair of Avalons at the Spectral room at CES 2004.Th... | |
| Eben loudspeakers Yes, I heard Ebens in the Purist room (there I gave it away!) at CES 2005. In fact I thought that's what they were demoing, they sounded SO terrific! I'm a stat person, but there are now three "boxes" I could live with if necessary:The big Avalon,... | |
| Do ground lifters alter sound? There are no high quality lifters for two reasons:1. It is a contradiction in terms, and2. They'd be so expensive you'd be better off spending you money on: a. Dedicated circuits b. Power regenerator c. Balanced power unit d. or all three ;--). | |
| Do ground lifters alter sound? Some manufacturers -- PS Audio, I think, and others, make their PCs w/ AC plugs that have a removable ground pin. That would be the simplest solution. Another (easily reversable) fix would be to open up the PC's AC plug and disconnect the cord's g... | |
| Selling to someone in another country There is really no difference as far as the item arriving in good/bad shape, assuming you don't "cheap out" on the shipping and packing. Yes, more complicated rules and precautions to be followed. so a lot of sellers just don't want to be bothered... | |
| Lifting the Ground Do you have hum problems? | |
| 21' 13' room: long wall vs. short wall placement Long wall is best for many of the reasons above, especially the sidewall first reflection issue Tom mentions.HOWEVER, the short dimension of the room must be 15 feet, bare minimum: 2.5 ft minimum behind the speakers which are 7 ft apart (midranges... | |
| Halo P3 Phono Hum It sounds to me like you may not have finished grounding your TA/TT to the preamp.First of all, your cartridge ground(s), blue and green, should not connect to any EARTH ground, neither must the cartridge body be grounded (even if it was metal.)So... | |
| Grado Color Coded Pins Okey Dokey -- the two pins near the H are BOTH hot (+) pins. The two pins near the G are BOTH ground (--) pins.The two pins near the L are BOTH left channel and the two pins near the R are BOTH right channel.Example: The pin between the H and the ... | |
| Halo P3 Phono Hum First of all, if you want to lift the ground, you don't need a cheater plug because the P3 has a ground lifter switch on the back. Second of all, DON'T lift the preamp ground, it's the ONE component that should be grounded!Next, are you using Hero... | |
| Buzz/hum caused by new a electric lines Albert's and Jockey's advice will probably do it for you, but I'd like to add a couple of refinements(?) which, like chicken soup, "couldn't hurt" ;--)Plug the amps right into the wall. I won't go into my diatribe about conditioners/filters here, ... | |
| Tube rings for power tubes? Well if you guys say so ;--) I have to admit, it's been awhile since I've dealt w/ a lot of hot output tubes (16 x 6550's !) so maybe Herbie is able to offer something more heat resistant than used to be available.But I still can't understand why ... | |
| Tube rings for power tubes? They CAME with tube rings? Are they the rubber (tube damper) type or the metal (heat radiating) kind? Where did you buy them? Did you ask the seller?OK, I haven't heard of this or seen it -- ever. First, power tubes get so hot they'd burn/melt mos... | |
| Electrostatic speakers and power conditioning Silver -- I understand now that your stats are powered by a 12V DC wall wart? That's fine, but it won't benefit from any kind of power conditioning/regeneration as the AC/DC adaptor is itself the limiting factor quality-wise.As for the risk of low... |