oldhvymec
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| Listening to music I don’t particularly like There is a lot of the old stuff that I quit listening to because of the crap recordings..Janis is one of a few. BTW I have collection of over 400 78s in VG condition..It was my FIL pre WWII and until he went to heaven. For 6 weeks every year I... | |
| Star Grounding and the Home In the mid west and Sierra's where there a lot of lightning strikes you can have 20 ground rods hooked to lightning rods they just all have to be bonded together, same for your stereo system. This is on the principal of marine grounding. We calle... | |
| The volume of my speakers going down by itself and going back again in a minute or two noromance has a point, turn off the lights a see if ALL the valves get dimmer then brighter. Do you need to bias the valves individually, or is it auto bias? Are the small valves doing stupid things? Did you pull the valves and then plug them b... | |
| The volume of my speakers going down by itself and going back again in a minute or two Without any further information I'd say it was demon possession, it could just a curse. Two Hail Marys and 5 Our Fathers for the curse, and get some Holy Water for the possession.. That should cover everything.. Then look at the sticking remote, ... | |
| Adding a “safe haven” forum for discussion of tweaks? I just really wonder if a coyote can catch a roadrunner without the aid of ACME? So far it hasn’t worked.. That is how important an ignore button really is.. :-) Some things you just quit doing after you figure out it’s not working. That coyote ... | |
| Interesting observations I had a smart router that a chip would overheat and cause the router to become unstable and reconnect. I picked up on it with a thermal gun. I could reboot the router and it wouldn't overheat for a couple of days sometimes. Everytime it acted up t... | |
| The New Synergistic Research Purple Fuses A patend? Why on earth would you go to a patend office and share your idea with the world to have it copied. US patents are just that US patents. They have ZERO weight in CHINA. The companies that I worked with NEVER got patents because the plans ... | |
| Adding an ignore list feature to audiogon I prefer the nuclear button <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This guy ... | |
| Straight up comparison REL T7 subwoofer vs Sunfire SDS 12 woofer. Preferences or opinions? Neither one, they both have a downward firing driver, without a butt plate or slot loaded. In other words you CAN'T decouple the sub.. The absolute worst design for stereo playback. The whole house will vibrate.. It makes the floor, walls and cei... | |
| Position of speaker cables and irregular behavior Well have a good time OP, it's foggy here. It's a good day for something inside.. Time to feed the chickens.. Regards | |
| JL Audio CR-1 Crossover When I looked at RELs design and read THEIR BS. I did the same. They are WAY behind in Bass tech. It is literally 70-80s tech. Bottom firing with NO butt plate (or slot loaded). There is NO way to decouple from the floor without adding a slot.. ... | |
| Position of speaker cables and irregular behavior @oldhvymec as I remember the expression pop(p)ed has an entirely salacious meaning you surely didn’t intend? <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>... | |
| Subwoofer cable question YUP if you produce it you know it.. It’s how the information is recorded. This just ain’t rocket science. There is left and right information on the mediun down to 2hz for all I care. The FACT is, it is recorded different and mixed different than ... | |
| Vintage Krell Amplifiers from the 80’s & 90’s. I listened to everything I wanted to try, years ago. I like Pass sound so I went with Threshold, I liked the sound of tubes so I went with Western Electric and Mac. Then there was my Class A phase, 15 years with Krells KSA 100 and 250 both all ho... | |
| Mcintosh MA9000 Phono Stage If you can find one a Herron, I or II. His last version is one the best bang for the bucks made EVER.. 2-3k Rogers PA-2 is almost 3 times the cost and still the Herron will better it.. They just don’t make it any more.. I have a ZP3 Decware it’s ... |