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| Three Cheers for Pass Labs I'd also like to climb on to compliment Nelson, Kent and everyone at Pass. They really do offer exceptional customer service. It's quite special to call and have Nelson himself answer the phone. He also personally replies to posts at the Pass DIY ... | |
| Pass Labs x-1 high gain If in doubt, write Pass. They are very responsive. | |
| Building New House - dedicated ele. best practices In addition to Kirkus' excellent and very thorough recommendations, you might consider separate external grounding posts for your dedicated lines. Also, I'd recommend a minimum of four dedicated lines (four twin outlets located near each other). B... | |
| Anyone catch Mother of Invention Don Preston ? Glad to hear one of the original Mothers is still making good music. Anyone know the whereabouts of Ian Underwood? Last I heard (about 10 years ago) he was a studio musician doing commercials in LA.Jimmy Carl Black, when ya comin' back? | |
| audio research sells out good or bad ? One can look at these change of ownerships different ways. An investment firm buying a private company doesn't necessarily mean the end of what made that company great. Smart management will see the value of preserving the core principles of the c... | |
| Legacy focus 20 20 speakers I used to own a pair of the original Legacies. I struggled for a couple of years trying to get the speakers to sound right in my dedicated listening room. A very capable friend who is also a high-end cable manufacturer looked at the guts of the sp... | |
| Some Questions about Plasma Screens Tonyptony & Markphd,Yes, my plasma (Hitachi 42") has both the stretch and fill modes available. However, I don't use them for standard 4:3 broadcasts because they distort the picture. I wrongly thought that by using the TV burn-in protection s... | |
| Some Questions about Plasma Screens With the plasma TV bought just a year ago, I've got burn-in from the black pillar bars on either side of the screen. Apparently, because so many of the shows I watch are 4:3 formatted, the black bars burned in and now show up as "shadows" when I'm... | |
| Is the Mark Levinson 333 still a GOOD amp??? The ML is a great amp, bettered only by the 335 and 336. The 300 series was plagued by bad caps. A costly replacement at around $1000 if you get unlucky. I owned a 332, 333 and 336 and never had a cap issue. If you can get the 333 at a good price,... | |
| Phono hum I have a VPI Scoutmaster with the same cartridge, same problem. The only fix I could find was using a PS Audio GCPH phono preamp. Completely eliminated the hum. Switching power cords, cables, grounds, using RFI/EMF shielding did next to nothing to... | |
| Phono Pre Amp $1K or less? The PS Audio GCPH is a phenomenal buy at under $1000. I tried many phono pre-amps costing up to $3500 and this little unit matched or bettered most. Very versatile, well-built, balanced circuitry.For $350 more you can get the Underwood/Part Connex... | |
| ARC LS17 vs Aesthesix Calypso Jwc37 brings up a good point about Aesthetix: They are fantastic to deal with. Jim White and Glenn Buckley are two of the nicest guys in Audioland. | |
| ARC LS17 vs Aesthesix Calypso I own the ML Summits too and think the Calypso sounds wonderful paired with it.Email me if you have additional questions. | |
| Martin Logan Summit vs. Odessy Yes. The Summit does everything better with a smaller footprint. Most folks feel the Summits represent MLs best attempt at integrating the low frequencies with the mids and highs. | |
| Springsteen's "Magic" on vinyl, opinions? There's another post here that confirms Brendan O'Brien ruined an otherwise fine album with poor production and mixing. The consensus is he mixed the album to be played through iPod earphones. Vinyl isn't much of an improvement: Garbage in, garbag... |