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| Running a Vacuum Cleaner near Tubes Electric motors, especially brushed, create RF energy, which you might hear. Older motors surge on start-up, and the starting capacitor can interfere with equipment sometimes. But new motors solve a lot of those old problems, at the cost of not be... | |
| Does a record player make that much of a difference?? Someday, maybe, a VPI or a Dr Feickert... But I recently added an Orbit Theory to my third system to upgrade from a Pro-Ject Debut Carbon DC, and have fallen in love. At the price I paid, open box discount, it was a true steal...for a USA product.... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Lake "Ouch" Caribou Records AL 37083 Lamont Cranston Band "Shakedown" Waterhouse Records 15 Birtha "Can't Stop The Madness" Dunhill/ABC DSX-50136 Leonard Bernstein & NY Phil. "Swan Lake Ballet Suite" Columbia MQ 30056 Al Stewart's ... | |
| 10 gauge power cord. Too much power for tube amp? Too large of a AWG can be an issue as can too small. As mentioned, size the wire for the load. I would guess, all that one can do without trouble-shooting, is that there is a thermal protection sensor on the fritz. Maybe a rectifier issue, tube or... | |
| I’m getting a hum in my integrated tube amp and it’s bugging me alot tubes age and degrade. if it's 60 cycle hum I would suspect a capacitor, Transformer/ rectifier... Just curious, have you isolated the amp? Physically disconnected the inputs? good luck with your gremlin | |
| My High End Audio Gear As A Long Term Investment!!! I was just thinking that there is no "final" system, and it is exceedingly rare to purchase the next newest and bestest with the liquidation of the old.... We are entertaining ourselves by finding creative ways to dispose of disposable income. I a... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system Just go with your ears! As you age you will become less perfect in your hearing, and thus less competent at listening. And not everyone was born with a perfume nose where their ears are to start with (perfect pitch anyone? How many can tell the tt... | |
| My High End Audio Gear As A Long Term Investment!!! I tinker. Adding a second hand Cambridge MC pre-amp to replace a Pro-Ject S, as an experiment towards warmer, "British" sound in my 3rd system. Is that an 'investment? More like an experiment. Both of my Kenwood KD turntables, KD 500 and a KD550, ... | |
| Does a record player make that much of a difference?? I'm wondering if your phono pre-amp and turntable and arm aren't playing catch up with the new cartridge? I went the other way, improving TT, then arm, then in a position to invest in cart and pre. My second and third system are more "generic", bu... | |
| Going to replace my Fluance rt85 I vote for the Orbit Theory, which starts out a buck under 1K. Made in USA, you can order direct with or without phono stage. It comes with a tapered cast magnesium arm, and you can up grade to Ortofon Bronze cartridge. The Theory features a solid... | |
| ARE AUDIOPHILES OVERLY SENSITIVE BY NATURE?FEELINGS AND OPINIONS? You don't have to look far,- Ferrari owners, Ducati riders (except for me, of course), Omega watch wearers, PhD holders who insist on "Doctor" as part of their name, Ford vs Chevy guys, sports team fans..... There's no escape | |
| Old records. I live with old, I mean OLD records. A couple things, first, upgrade your stylus to a Line Contact, or SAS, or other nude elliptical (for stereo, and a good mono cart...). Those styli designed for 4 channel (like the SAS) are an excellent choice f... | |
| Results of Actual Hearing Test and Next Steps I have significant loss in my right ear, and tinnitus. I usually wear 2 hearing aids during the day. Hearing aids are designed and engineered for speech recognition, but maybe there are audiophile hearing aids out there as well; I'm thinking that ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? The Siegel-Schwall Band "Shake!" Vanguard VSD 78289 The Yawpers "Human Question" Bloodshot BS 271 LP After The Fire "ATF" Epic FE 38282 The Modern Jazz Quartet "S/T" Atlantic 1265 (mono) Duke Ellington and His Orchestra "S/T" Premi... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Sunday am... Linda Ronstadt & Nelson Riddle "What's new?" Asylum 6026 Jesse Winchester "Nothing but a Breeze" Bearsville BR 6968 Townsend/Lane "Rough Mix" Polydor- love the album but hate the mix/press!!!! and I'm usually not t... |