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| Tube sellers As Thorman implies, most vintage tubes are more properly referred to as ANOS (almost new old stock.) No, I'm not joking. And I prefer ANOS when buying vintage tubes because they at least have some track record. If they were going to fail, they alr... | |
| Retip Transfiguration Orpheus Gerhard, I think you may have received 'incorrect' information from your 'distributor' (I am being polite ;~)If you will click on the link below, you will see that Elusive Disk (and many other retailers) provide re-tipping directly from the factor... | |
| Retip Transfiguration Orpheus I was quite surprise to read:At Transfiguration Retipping one for an Orpheus is no longer possible!Could you please provide some details? | |
| What constitutes a "high output" moving coil cart? Mechans, please don't feel we're 'dissing' HOMC cartridges across the board. For example, the Decca line of HOMC cartridges has been almost a cult favorite for decades, but it's mechanism is totally unique to that cartridge, and doesn't suffer the... | |
| What constitutes a "high output" moving coil cart? The "highest" of the "LOW output" moving coil cartridges have an output of about 0.7mV maximum -- that's seven tenths of a microvolt! Whereas the "lowest" of the "HIGH output" moving coil cartridges have, as noted above, a minimum of 2. mV AT LEAS... | |
| Necessary to ground and XLR interconnect? Jafreeman: Of course! I should have guessed you were planning to use some exotic/esoteric wire I'd never heard of ;--) OK, Dueland makes some great parts/components, but I think your using ribbon conductors represent major overkill if you're going... | |
| Foam inserts in CD fatboys - a warning If the foam is adhering to the CD, the absolute BEST solvent to remove it is naphtha (what dry cleaners use.) It will not hurt the surface of the CD in any way. The easiest source for it is either Ronsonal or Scripto lighter fluid (ACE Hardware us... | |
| Necessary to ground and XLR interconnect? Jafreeman: What you need to do is check your equipment. I have Wadia equipment, and if I remember correctly, the XLR output connectors only have wires to pins 2 and 3, and nothing to pin 1. If there IS a wire to pin 1, however, and you still want ... | |
| Necessary to ground and XLR interconnect? With XLR signal connection/connectors, there are two possible "grounds". Signal ground and chassis ground.Pin 1 is 'signal ground' and is the zero (0) signal reference point between pin 2(+) and pin 3(--). There is also a (fourth) connection point... | |
| Best kt88 for VAC Avatar Super Lrg36, GF will push anything (they think) they can monopolize, as it was with the Black Treasure series, in the beginning, when they 'claimed' they had 'exclusive' North American distributorship for the Black Treasure tubes -- that is until everyo... | |
| Martin logan CLS II Vs Magnepan 1.7 Better my book than someone else's ;~)) | |
| Martin logan CLS II Vs Magnepan 1.7 Well, I just think this conversation has no basis in reality. Planar magnetic vs. electrostatic is simply apples to oranges -- and so are their native sonics! Like I already advised the OP, "Keep the Logans -- you already love them for all the rig... | |
| Who makes a good or decent CD recorder? Marakanetz -- if there are problems with burning on a PC (read/write errors?) then blame the drive, not the PC! I personally think Lite-On makes the best CD drives and many of the "pro" CD burners use Lite-On drives!As for your (disappointing) res... | |
| Who makes a good or decent CD recorder? I agree w/ Tan43 -- use your computer. Of course, you'll want a good burner unit like a Lite-On or equal; and good burning software, like Nero or equal.There is some merit to the idea that CD copies sound better than the originals. The (supposed) ... | |
| Headphones at work I use a pair of 650's which sound great with either my desktop or my laptop using a couple of Headroom's portable components:The MicroDAC http://www.headroomelectronics.com/products/micro-line/the-headroom-micro-dac/. . . and the Headroom Cosmic H... |