richmon
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| Preamp Deal of the Century Thanks for the suggestion on the Sovtek KT66. This being my first tube preamp, I swore I wasn't going to get entangled in Tube rolling. I've had the Chenin for a week and I just ordered a pair of the Sovteks. This preamp is making me unreasonable,... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Frankiealverti - Those two switches are left/right gain switches, the choices are low gain or high gain. You can adjust the pre to match your power amp with these, additionally there's a gain dial on the back for further fine tuning of the gain. W... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Thanks for the feedback lads, hard to believe that the phono will be even better than the line output, Jimi Hendrix was in my living room last night, playing the 'experience Hendrix' CD remaster of Electric Ladyland. Found myself in the kitchen be... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Just replaced my Adcom GFP-750 with a used Supratek Chenin, going from a Âgiant killer to the Âpreamp of the centuryÂ, which is how these two units are written about. The rest of the system is a Musical Fidelity A5 player, Conrad Johnson MF22... | |
| How to thwart cats Put some balloons near your components. When the cats are hanging around the 'off limits' area, pop the balloon(s). They'll make the connection and avoid the area. You might have to repeat the lesson. My cat avoided the area like the plague, but s... | |
| Experience Loading Speakers w/ sand or shot Just purchased some used Von Schweikert VR-4jr's that had the added lead shot. Was a struggle to move them with the added weight, close to 200 lbs of speaker and box. You need to consider how you'll remove the lead, if you ever sell or move em. Th... | |
| VSA VR4 SR or JR as a match to my system and room I'm considering the VR-4Jr's and some of these posts along with the recent uptick in VR-4Jr's for sale here made me wonder if trouble was a-foot.I emailed VSA asking about a local dealer and three days later got a response from one offering to set... | |
| Balanced/Unbalanced --- Whats the difference? Shadore: Thank you man, that was a lucid and clear explanation, on the why and how. | |
| Audiophile license plates off topic, but the best one I've seen was a LE CAR that had a plate that said 'LE TAG' | |
| Musical Fidelity A5 CD-Player Powercord proposal After buying an MF A5 player, I emailed usedcable.com for Powercord suggestions. They recomended the JPS labs digital AC.I only compared it to the VH Audio Flavor 4 that I already had in my system. The JPS sounded much superior in my system. The J... | |
| CD Mats I'm using the Blacklight CD mat. When copying disc's using my dual tray phillips CD recorder, certain CD's won't copy even after multiple trys. I put the mat on, and voila, the cd copies. Must be doing something eh?. I only hear a subtle improveme... | |
| Anyone ever try ear candles for better listening? True story:an aquaintence of mine is into all sorts of new age remedys.After trying this, he convinced himself that ear candling would be beneficial for the whole family and his mom reluctantly agreed just to shut him up.After his 'remedy' managed... | |
| Power Cable Recommendation I picked up a Musical Fidelity A5 CD player a while back but only experimented with 2 powers cords. The VH Audio Flavor 4 and a JPS Labs Digital AC.The JPS Labs cord was audibly better in my system, really made it shine. The folks at usedcable.com... | |
| Which power cord to upgrade first? In my system,the source (CD player) cord upgrade had the greatest improvement.The power amp and preamp cord improvements were subtle, the CD players improved cord was substantial. From what I read, the CD player can 'broadcast' digital noise throu... | |
| Help on soundstaging How about a $14 tweak ? Radio Shack sells Caig Pro gold de-oxidizer and gold contact treatment kits. Clean up your speaker terminals, cables and interconnects, and if any's left do your power cables. Just did this last weekend and it really helped... |