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| What do you use for isolation? This is a slight tangent from the question but, to the complaint about some isolation devices like Vibrapods and sorbothane pads ruining the finish on components, putting a single layer of plastic wrap between the device and the component solves t... | |
| Benchmark VS older ultrahigh end dac's in these... My experience with the Benchmark matches Drubin's. I've owned one for more than a year and used it with solid state amplification from Sim Audio and tube amplification from AES/Cary. I've found it to be very transparent and neutral, never harsh or... | |
| Robert & Alison-Raising Sand If you come to this recording expecting to hear either Alison Krauss or Robert Plant in their previous incarnations you'll be surprised, at best, or disappointed. This album is mostly about T-Bone Burnett's production and Mark Ribot's guitar and b... | |
| How to do defragment disk on Mac? Another exceptionally useful Mac utility is MainMenu. It runs all the routine maintenance scripts that Albert mentions plus lots of other useful tasks like rebuilding your Spotlight index, repairing disk permissions, clearing caches and histories ... | |
| How to do defragment disk on Mac? Here's the official word from Apple on defragmentation. What they say, essentially, is that with OS X there's not much to be gained by doing it unless you do a lot of video editing. If you do decide you need to do it you'll have to use a third-par... | |
| LG dvd player stops/starts while playing disc Fatparrot is right, it's worth cleaning the lens to see if it solves the problem. You can try one of the $10 cleaning discs that looks like a DVD with tiny brushes embedded in it, they're available almost anywhere that sells electronics. Sometimes... | |
| LG dvd player stops/starts while playing disc Most repair shops have a minimum diagnostic fee of $50-75 which you'll pay even if the player can't be repaired, which isn't likely. There's no way that repairing a $100 player makes any sense unless you know exactly what the problem is and can do... | |
| Need advise regarding small bookshelf monitor I bought a pair of Usher S-520's for a system for my daughter and have been very impressed with them. They're small enough for the entertainment center, are front ported and cost $400 new. Here's a Stereophile review. | |
| Best Recordable CD-R Media ??? Another good online source for the Taiyo Yuden discs is Meritline. | |
| Totem response re: recommended tube amp for Sttaf Djh - I recently went through a similar search. I have a very fine Simaudio I-5 integrated but after I got some Devore Fidelity Gibbon 8 speakers I was curious what they would sound like with tubes. The Devore 8's are two-ways with the same sensit... | |
| Tube CD Players other than Jolida The Njoe Tjoeb 4000 that Upscale Audio sells would be an option in your price range. I have the previous version, the Tjoeb 99, and it's very nice. It uses two tubes from the 6DJ8/6922/7308 family so there are lots of options for swapping tubes at... | |
| Tube Rolling MF X-CAN V3 There's a detailed description of the variations of the 6DJ8 tube family here. | |
| Tube Rolling MF X-CAN V3 The 6922 is the premium version of the 6DJ8 tube type. E88CC is the European numbering for 6922. Doing a Web search for 6DJ8/6922 will get you more options than you can possibly deal with. It's a very common tube type with prices ranging from $10 ... | |
| Tube Rolling MF X-CAN V3 I don't have any experience with the X-CAN but according to this review it uses two 6922 tubes. The specs published with the amp say two ECC82 tubes, are used. Those and the 6922 are the same tube with different designations. | |
| Sennheiser HD 650 Headphones I stumbled into having a pair of headphones when I saw a new pair of Sennheiser 600's on craigslist for $100 and couldn't pass them up. I soon after found a great deal here on audiogon on a Headroom Little More Plus headphone amp. I'm using an Ah!... |