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| Rega and VPI tonearm owners - READ THIS Hi, guys. I spent another 4 hours this morning listening to some favorite LP's, and I continue to be pleasantly amazed at the improvements from this counterweight. Frankly, this purchase was a real experiment, and I thought I might -- at best -- h... | |
| Bryston Powerpac? I have a friend who uses the PowerPac 120's to drive his rear surround speakers, and he's very pleased with them. The "120" version is simply one channel of amplification taken directly from the Bryston 3B-ST, which is their 120 wpc power amp. I d... | |
| Better Cables.com I am using several products from BetterCables.com: a pair of 4-meter audio IC's (for LFE) from the preamp to the two subwoofers; a digital co-ax from the DVD/CD player to the preamp; and a set of component video cables from the DVD player to the T... | |
| Vinyl Cleaning Rushton: good to know someone else uses essentially the same solution. The formula I use was provided to me by a now deceased friend, who made a part-time living buying estate collections of LP's and re-selling them -- mainly to the Japanese colle... | |
| what do you think about SONY's XBR direct view TVs? I have a 36" WEGA XBR, and I think it has a fabulous picture. I had my set professionally adjusted by a ISF (Imaging Sciences Foundation) technician, to be sure the color balance was accurate, and everyone who watches my set comments on the superb... | |
| best preamp under 500 for cheap, poor student One of the best used buys in solid state preamps is the Adcom GFP-565. It got great reviews in the audio mags in the early 90's, and had one of the best phono preamp stages around. You can sometimes find this preamp on the used market for around $... | |
| What does one do with old outdated audio equipment? All of the suggestions above are good, but here are several other ideas:1. Donate the components to an audio club in your area;2. Donate the system to a retirement home, and install it for them in a common area where the residents can enjoy some m... | |
| Good inexpensive cartridge The two sources of cartridges that I recommend, which usually have the lowest prices and widest selection, are:1. Garage-a-Records2. Jerry Raskin's Needle Doctor.Both Shure and Grado have good quality, moving magnet cartridges in your general pric... | |
| Bryston SP1 . .. any experience with this preamp ? I have a SP-1, and am extremely pleased with it. I bought the SP-1 because my primary objective was to get excellent 2-channel audio reproduction while also getting high quality surround sound processing. Bryston's SP-1 delivers on all counts.If y... | |
| Vinyl Cleaning Jimbo3: the 99.9% pure refers, as far as I know, to the ratio of alcohol to water. It is essentially impossible to distill 100% alcohol, since alcohol will pick up water vapor from the air. The 99.9% stuff I buy, however, is also pure with regard ... | |
| Vinyl Cleaning Actually, Jim, I buy 99.9% pure isopropyl alcohol in a local drug store. It may not be widely available, but it's not that hard to find. Your point is valid about not leaving the cleaning solution on for an extended time, but the 30-45 seconds or ... | |
| Vinyl Cleaning I make my own cleaning solution. Get a 1 gallon jug of distilled water, and drain off 1 pint of the water. Then add 1 pint of 99.9% pure isopropyl alcohol to the distilled water, plus 1/4 teaspoon of a good surfactant (a high quality liquid deterg... | |
| Wow I never knew that THX was not a format at all Hi, guys. As an "FYI", the letters "THX" were said at the time to stand for "Tomlinson Holman's X-periment". That may be apocryphal, but the explanation was mentioned in a number of audio mags some 20+ years ago. | |
| Best interconnects 2m for less than 200/pr used I think you should add HomeGrownAudio's Silver Lace IC's to your list -- you can buy them factory assembled for about $180/pair, or $50 less in kit form (requires assembly and some fairly easy soldering). The Silver Lace is a 100% silver, braided,... | |
| Help on LP to CD Transfer Firms I agree with Abstract7 -- do it yourself. There are a number of decent audio CD recorders on the market now that can be purchased at discount for under $400. I recently bought a Sony RCD-W1 audio CD recorder specifically to transfer much of my LP ... |