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| dedicated electrical line Dedicated lines may be better and may also be cheaper than power conditioners. I've only heard a few times that conditioners made the sound better, but dedicated lines almost always improve the sound, although the change may be subtle.Congrats on ... | |
| Installation Instructions?? An additional piece of information is that whether you carefully use a needle nose pliers or hemostats, you must grab the clip behind the slitted tube of the clip. Don't grab the wire, don't grab the slitted tube. Also, grabbing it behind the slit... | |
| ProAc budget level S.S. or Digital amp synergy? I'd be a little hesitant to suggest T-amps with your ProAc's, I fear the resulting sonics would get too "zippy".If you have to though, I second the ARC recommendation.I realize it may be a few dollars more, but Plinius SS amps sound very good. May... | |
| Have you ever deceived your wife-audio purchase My wife has stopped asking. Therefore, I've stopped bending the truth.I used to think she didn't know when a change was made. Ha! Then one day I changed out a black ARC preamp for a different black ARC preamp with the same number of knobs, switche... | |
| Discounts vs. Agon listings The Fremer DVD for $30 is a dandy way to learn, and there's details specific to VPI arms on it. You don't necessarily need some of the nice gizmos shown on it, the VPI comes with an alignment jig and a Shure force gauge to set tracking force> I... | |
| Seeking hot running amps O.k., this is an admittedly silly thread. That being said, it would seem as though getting hot running amps to also use as heat is serving two needs- audio and heat source.Since we as adiophiles need both (if we're in cooler climates) it behooves ... | |
| 6CG7/6FQ7 options One more thing. I was collecting some tubes to send to Cmk for him to try and realized I mis-spoke about the electrostatic shield designation. 6CG7's were specified with the black or shiny electrostatic shield between the plates, 6FQ7's could omit... | |
| 6CG7/6FQ7 options I needed to add that I'm not sure if the black plate Tung Sols were actual Tung Sol production or if they are Raytheon rebrands. I suppose it could always be the other way around, but they look physically the same in the samples I have.RFG | |
| 6CG7/6FQ7 options I'd watch for black plate 6FQ7 Raytheons. Usually mid 50's vintage. Not overly common, but also not that expensive to get the best of that type of tube, so search away! The black plate Raytheons are a step ahead of all the others in my experience,... | |
| subwoofers and panels don't mix Shadorne has a great point. Another thing I found during the Maggie subwoofer debacle is that Maggies seem to be very linear in output power (or sound pressure) relative to input power from the amplifier.Subs (and most dynamic speakers in my exper... | |
| subwoofers and panels don't mix I became really frustrated with trying to integrate subs with Maggie 3.5R's. About 6 months of trying with Carver true subs (they were poor, slow and had horrible overhang).I spun them off for a brutal loss and moved on.They literally had a delay ... | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice however it was the main air bearing sleeve which was missing when I got the table. Some nice man in Europe has the rest of the parts from the arm so at least it helped someone with their 'noll. I alos love linear air arms, but it just wasn't meant... | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice My bearing castings were a little rough. Corroded too. I was hesitant toclean up much of the "rough cast" in the middles of the topand bottom halves of the air bearing, as I read a looong time ago (Lumley?) that that very roughness helped by makin... | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/1223976996043163733nokXJHI'm quite a bit late in this thread, but I've been watchingit for a few months now. I have some stuff which might be of interest.Here is a Sig Ariadne that I did some revision on. ... | |
| Electrocompaniet Signature Amp Problems Unfortunately, I believe there is only one avenue for repair that is factory certified. It was through Florida I believe. I had a friend dealing with a similar problem on a 200wpc amp I believe. I hate to report he had pretty ugly problems as they... |