oldhvymec
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| Center Speaker as a “sound bar” or mono audio with a simple amp Op, just use one side. No biggie. Hook the center RCA to one channel, left or right on the power amp. Hook that same left or right speaker OUT to the speaker you want to power. Volume control? Where ever that CENTER speaker RCA is coming from, cab... | |
| RCA (phono) cables for on-site termination I’d suggest using grommets in leu of just a holes. The hole is just a tiny bit larger and a split rubber grommet will let you BUY a much better phono cable. Remove the grommet, use a wooden dowel of like material and a permanent marker to give it ... | |
| How to design a high end crossover… He liked TRT Caps too,, Teflons caps sent straight from Satan,, really tough to break in. But when they do. 3-500 hours.I saw a few slow to learn customers. He'd tell them, cover the speaker with moving blankets, use the cables your going to use, ... | |
| How to design a high end crossover… I new one XO designer that would tune each XO to the cabinet and drivers he was using. The left and right crossovers very seldom looked alike. When the drivers were pulled and matched top to bottom and left to right as close as his staff could get... | |
| Transport needed ! I'm a Sony fan. Any of the ES series with low mileage. I'm not a big fan of the multi-disk ES, but they still sound pretty good and hold up well in a party environment. The electrolytic do go south though.. 5400 777 and 9XX. Replace the fuse circu... | |
| Spring-Loaded Screw Turns Drywall Into Sound-Absorbing Panels What is holding the drywall in place? Do you tighten it until the head is below the the surface, like a normal DW screw? That means the panel has only one side of the drywall paper pinched with a springy thing on top of a tapered screw head throug... | |
| What's your dream speaker? russ69, I've heard the Genesis Forte. I had forgot about that speaker. I was surely impressed. A home in Aspen. I saw more fancy systems in that town than any other town I've been in. Genesis. I said there is nothing that I would currently buy, I ... | |
| How long can preamp tubes last? LOL Fred puttin’ Dino out THEN, Dino puttin’ Fred out!BUT Fred won’t jump back through the window, the way Dino did.Fred was a little thick in the HEAD and bottom..Bang Bang Bang! Wil-ma, WIL-MA!! BANK BANG BANG.Rockport TTStonehenge speakersWhen ... | |
| AMR DPP-777 DAC tubes The best thing you could do is remove the valves, get a few cotton balls, put a little WD40 on the cotton balls and plunge the valve pins a few times. Wipe them off real good. Don't get it on the glass. If they are NOS Tellies for sure and a few ... | |
| Best sub for music, I'm pretty sure an ear cleaning and a posted ear test is in order.. LOLVoices mozartfan, "Nothing below 160" mercy what kind of music do you listen to? LOL I think even Cher get down there.. There is all kinds of music from 250 down.. 60 - 150 is ... | |
| How long can preamp tubes last? ok ok 1/2 a million years.. They found some with dinosaurs fossils.Don't you guys watch the Flintstones. They used ROCK tubes.. | |
| Replacement remote for McIntosh C50 Buddy they are everywhere. Look on Ebay, Parts Express, your junk drawer, your PHONE. Yup that’s right your phone. :-)The coolest remote was a Krell man they had a good one, brushed aluminum, wonderful, EASY layout.. Tough as the Bismarck Battlesh... | |
| Why has focal raised their prices so much on Sopra line It’s an excuse for all of them, to raise the price on a really bloated market to begin with..Decware hasn’t raised prices in 5 years. They just re-source, like they should, to keep cost down and quality high. They produce Hardware faster NOW than ... | |
| What's your dream speaker? http://pointillistic.com/vmps-audio/RM50.htmI really wanted to try a pair... I heard them at CES in 2010 or 11?The live recording session and then playback through his speakers.. It was something.. It WAS really something.. He Brian C. was a prett... | |
| A full range speaker? Good Lord OP I had to visit the (open but closed to any SS person) Social Security office today. I'm not kidding ONLY people who don't have a SS card could get a face to face appointment. I almost went into riot mode.. I'm a EASY going guy.. I lik... |