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| Best way of connecting bare wire to bare wire Seems a little silly to be commenting on the quality of wire nuts but you do want to be sure the ones you get have a wire coil inside. Some inexpensive ones are just a plastic cap without any wire inside the wire nut itself. The ones with the meta... | |
| Best lines in a song Trcnetmsncom, yep, those are great lines and we should credit the songwriter (and former bunkie of Rickie Lee Jones) Tom Waits. | |
| IPOD Y Cable Since you're going into a preamp, you should consider a cable that goes from the dock connector of the iPod to your preamp inputs, rather than from the headphone output. That way you're getting a 'line out' signal that hasn't passed through the iP... | |
| Used CD Player with variable outputs The Ah! Tjoeb 99 and 4000 are modified Marantz players with variable, tubed output. They're fine sounding players and run between $250 and $700 depending on which model it is and the options. | |
| connecting a sub to Rotel Rx1050 Since the 1050 has two pair of speaker terminals it would be very simple to run a second pair of speaker cables to the high-level inputs of the sub. They don't need to be as large as your main speaker cables since they're carrying just the frequen... | |
| Best iPods for AUDIOphiles If you do get a portable amp it's worth tracking down one of the cables that goes from the dock connector to the amp input, rather than from the headphone output, so that you're bypassing the internal amp of the iPod. On one end it will have a plu... | |
| Living Voice Avatars VS Devore Super 8s I have not heard the Avatars so can't compare them to the Devores. I own the Devore 8's, not the Super 8's, and drive them with a 15 watt triode tube amp. They're 88 dB, even less efficient than the Super 8's, but the 15 watts is plenty in an 11 x... | |
| God this is overkill It's easy to get carried away once you have the Nuforce Icon. What an amazing amp and DAC for the money. I took mine out of my office and hooked it up to my Devore 8's and the sound was remarkable. | |
| soliloquy 6.5 speaker parts Yes, Soliloquy has been out of business for awhile. I don't know about the 6.5's but I've had the 5.0's and SAT5's and the drivers were proprietary in both of them, there are no commercially available exact matches.Underwood HiFi, who advertise he... | |
| Spades or bananas connectors? Don_s, I can understand your frustration at seeing the same questions posted over and over but, in fact, that's absolutely necessary for forums like this to accumulate good information. No single thread is going to contain the best answers to the ... | |
| Wired or wireless duet? If you really are in a place where there aren't any sources of interference and the devices are within range of each other the wireless should work great.I've tried an Airport Express both ways and there was only one problem with going wireless, w... | |
| iPod recommendations For comfort, portability, price and decent sound I've found the Sennheiser PX200 hard to beat. It doesn't provide the kind of isolation that earphones or closed headphones do so for plane travel I use the noise-cancelling version, the PXC250. I ha... | |
| New to I tunes The View Options dialog box lets you decide which columns will be displayed in the main iTunes music library window. When you're looking at that window you'll see the items you have checked in View Options as a row of labels across the top, things... | |
| turning my system on during lightning storms Reubent is right. Turning your system off doesn't provide much protection. A lightning bolt that can jump several thousand feet of atmosphere is not going to be impressed by a gap of, at most, a few millimeters in your on-off switch. Unplugging yo... | |
| Single-wire spades from amp to biwire spkr posts? It's also possible to have externally bi-wired cables, two lengths of cable going to each speaker, with the two cables joined at one end so that you have only one set of spade terminals at the amp. I've owned Dh Labs and Silverline cables configur... |