rockvirgo
Responses from rockvirgo
| Help with a Theta Data III My first $200 CD player developed a similar problem. ANY button I pushed made the drawer open or close. I could load a CD but when I pushed play (or any other button) the drawer would open again. I literally gave that unit away.Sorry I cannot be o... | |
| Best Kept Speaker Secret? ProAc's "ultimate in compact speaker design" the Tablette 2000 Signature. It's larger than their 1SC, contains all of the Response line's features, but sells for less; a true marketing anomaly and gift to the faithful. | |
| Source Selector Fix-It Tips Radio Shack used to offer more than one kind of 'tv tuner cleaner'. The labeling on the cans tells you how much residue it leaves behind. It works great but some units seem to find it addictive. | |
| Electrical current polarity th wider slot is supposed to be the minus. | |
| Safe audiogon transactions; lowering the bar. Lakefrontroad,Although shippers may gather info from the injured owner, they pay damages to the party who paid them to do the shipping. They have no contract with the recipient.When a repair place accepts your unit into its care, custody and contr... | |
| Safe audiogon transactions; lowering the bar. Here is the five minute course in trade law...The essentials (and the typical manifestations) of an enforceable contract are competent parties (adults), subject matter (something not illegal), legal consideration (money), mutuality of agreement (a... | |
| Average age of audiophiles I will hit the big 5-0 later this year. Send CD's in lieu of flowers.Dixie High Fidelity Wholesalers sold me my first component system. Anybody remember them? I still have the December 1970 mailorder invoice: Dual 1219 tt with base and dustcover; ... | |
| Soudstage Height? Sounds like a phase shift to me. My guess is your jolida used as a preamp or your ss power amp inverts phase. Height info in stereo ordinarily derives from stacking an array of drivers... While we're here, what's that stereo cd with the dog barkin... | |
| Any tricks to keep cats away from speaker grills? Remove the grills. | |
| Does a CD Transport need to be HDCD ALSO? It's all done with the DAC by employing a special decoder chip/filter. Pacific Microsonics makes one if not all of them. When HDCD's first came out the contract for HDCD playback required the DAC/CD player designer to attenuate the gain on normal ... | |
| Looking for an amp for my Proac 1.5's. Those 1.5's are really nice. ProAc's Stewart Tyler supposedly uses tubed Audio Research components.I'm running a pair of Tablette 2000 sigs with a Threshold FET ten hl & S/350e combo. The top of the line Fet ten, which replaced a Forte F44, re... | |
| Greatest Songwriter of all time If this was a test question my answers would be:1. Woody Gutherie 2. George M. Cohan 3. Hank Williamsbut I haven't got a recording by any of them :^) | |
| Monitors vs Full Range As an apartment dweller, my living room is my music room. Apart from the other good points mentioned above, monitors integrate with a space better, both visually and psychically, than floorstanders do. With monitors and tasteful (no exposed hardwa... | |
| 35 and 40 ft runs-Balanced will be expensive I'm with rgodin. Try the musical instrument stores. A year ago I got a 20 foot pair of ProCo microphone cables with silver Neutrik contacts for $32. They probably come in 50 foot lengths too. Monster offers some up market lines, with more electric... | |
| help me with cheap tape deck. I bought a new Nakamichi CR3A for $800 14 years ago. They go for between $250 - $325 here on Audiogon. It has all the features you seek except separate channel record levels. You'll need a separate preamp if you plan to use microphones. It still w... |