spatialking
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| What's your profession? Age? Analog Engineer (Amplifier Design Consultant), 54 years, stereo is at 50,000 - not counting the 2 home theater systems or the system in the garage made of left over high end stuff. I think I have another 15,000 or so of high end gear in the attic,... | |
| Transformer Hum Listen to Newbie, he has the right solution for you. If you have TV cable hooked up anywhere on your system, that is the first place to look. | |
| What happened to the loudness control? The reason the loudness control was dumped is simply that no one has ever come up with a circuit that worked 100% of the time at 100% of the volume settings. Consumers eventually figured this out and preferred not to own it. | |
| What is the best phono preamp you have heard? 1. Anything I designed myself.2. Anything anyone else designed which sounds better than what I designed.3. This list is not neccessarily in order. | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Clearly, it has to be the Plasmatronics, which hasn't been made for years now. This monster used helium gas and converted it to plasma, the fourth state of matter. Then, this purpleish glowing spherical ball of plasma was modulated by a direct dri... | |
| Installing a dedicated AC line Oh, I forgot to mention, put in a dedicated earth ground for your system. I have done this several times in several homes and it has always helped reduce EMI interference and made a whopping difference in FM reception. That being said, I wouldn't ... | |
| Installing a dedicated AC line If you are willing to pay the extra money for 10 gauge wire, then go for it. You will have less voltage drop, less surge drop, and a more robust system. You need to make sure all of your circuitry, such as breakers and receptacles, support 10 gaug... | |
| Need Help - IC , Speaker cable & power cord You might look at Blue Jeans Cables at www.bluejeanscable.com They have some very good stuff; I was certainly impressed. | |
| Cheap tweaks...What would YOU reccomend? Here is a modification of above speaker cables: Twist the red and black wires together, one pair at a time. Then, put all of them in one large bundle and slide into some nylon flex housing in a color that complements your system. Use the red for t... | |
| DIY cat 6 FEP "TEFLON" You might try using one half of each twisted pair for the hot signal and the other half for the ground. This will increase capacitance a bit but it will lower inductance, which is the real problem at these currents and impedances. Note that a tigh... | |
| Always on ? Speaking of leaving stuff on, the old Spatial Coherence preamp required 7 days to warm up, per the owners manual. Actually, it really took 6 weeks. If you are thinking this is a design flaw, you are thinking right. Of course, it only drew 4 watts ... | |
| Cheap tweaks...What would YOU reccomend? I just read all the posts on this thread; a very interesting thread to say the least. Here is my suggestion:Go to radio shack and buy four spools of solid 18 gauge wire in both red and black colors. Each spool has 60 feet of wire and you will need... | |
| Best Pink Floyd recording CD or LP All of them, some are just better than others. My wife is into Pink in a big way, which works for me. | |
| Good Y Cables? Sugarbrie has it right, I just bought two pair of Monster cable Y's, one male and two female. They are made well and look good. The cobalt cables Dan mentioned look good too and the price is fair. | |
| Looking for a source of vibration dampening sheets I don't think this will do what you want, but it is so inexpensive, you ought to look at it. At the local hardware store, you can buy sorbathane peforated mats, which go in your kitchen drawers and cabinents to keep things from sliding around. The... |