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| Good Quality Distilled Water??? The garden-variety Steam Distilled Water sold at my local supermarket is labeled "Purified Water USP, and marked "purified by distillation and ozonation." It also has an NSF International certification. I checked the NSF International standards fo... | |
| calling all vandy 5a owners Jkphoto is right on - you MUST find the proper positioning for your speakers, THEN have the subwoofers tuned to the room by your dealer. Take the spikes off, unplug the subwoofers, then use the "thirds" measurements in the manual to do rough posit... | |
| Which Pioneer dvd player uses stable platter? None of them. | |
| analog newbie question/vinyl weight Rushton, FYI - "virgin vinyl" as a marketing concept is not a product of the '80s. I have a bunch of Longines Symphonette LP sets from the '60s that promote their virgin vinyl materials. I'm sure this was not new in the '60s or exclusive to Longin... | |
| analog newbie question/vinyl weight In theory, heavier/thicker vinyl is a better playback medium than lighter/thinner vinyl because a heavy/thick record will vibrate less during playback and will deal with heat created during playback more efficiently. In reality, there are too many... | |
| HELP - buzzing on Magnepan 3.6R; repair or not? Your speaker needs repair. You'll probably find that a wire has separated from the panel (glue melted or failed) and that is what is causing the buzzing sound. If you or your prospective buyer are handy, the repair CAN be DIY. Magnepan sells the g... | |
| Cathedral Ceiling the Culprit in New Music Room? I doubt it's your ceiling. It's the open passageway and the glass door. My living/listening room is similar in description, (except with with more openings and no glass door), and the cathedral ceiling is the only thing that keeps it from being a ... | |
| Bi-wire cable or two complete sets of the same? I don't know about MIT, but Transparent does not recommend using two sets of networked cables for bi-wiring. The networks can interact, which would place the cables out of spec. I suspect your MIT cables would have the same reaction, but you shoul... | |
| Does the Mark Levinson 331 suck? Your Adcom preamp is a poor match with the Levinson amp. The Levinson amp will highlight the noise and grainy sound from the Adcom. Ditch the Adcom. | |
| Recommend new floorstanding around $1500/pr please Vandersteen 2ce Signature. | |
| Rhea and tube noise....???? When I first got my Rhea there was a bit of "tube rush" like noise. It went away during the first 50 hours of use, and it's been dead-silent in operation since. BTW I have a low-output MC cartridge, so gain is set pretty high. | |
| Component isolation - digital/analog- a/c- help There's an audiophile Sacred-Cow myth that circuit breakers somehow "isolate" branch circuits from each other, but it's bunk.If you truly want to isolate a component from another component's powerline pollution, you need filters and/or transformer... | |
| Noise around outlet, help If you've wired everything correctly, you should not have any exposed areas on hot or neutral wires that could be touched by ANYTHING. If you have exposed areas, you haven't wired correctly.If you're not 110% sure what you're doing, you ought to g... | |
| Concierto Cables or Transparent Cables? Can you borrow the cables you're interested in buying to try out before you make the plunge? Cables are an even bigger variable than other gear IMO. What works in my system might not work in yours. What sounds full-range and musical to me might so... | |
| that studio'ish sound If you're really looking for that "studio sound," a pair of studio monitors in the nearfield will get you close. FYI though - you're only going to hear one aspect of the recording. Studio monitors are not the only transducers used to listen to the... |