stevecham
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| Treated my interconnects with Deoxit D5 today Ah, the smoking gun...As with cables and electronics, you also need to burn in the deoxit. Just kidding. I have only had the opposite (good) result when using Caig's products on all contact surfaces. | |
| Anyone know what could cause a new small signal tube to "sputter"? Likely a short that is causing the tube to intermittently arc. You might try taking it out if its socket out when cold, and while holding it upright, tapping it sharply on the side a few times with a chopstick. Sometimes the short is caused by sma... | |
| Thoughts on Big Star Big Star and Radio City are also available on recently remastered vinyl. The next major band that wasn't to be, due mainly to record company mis-management. | |
| WHY DO SOME AUDIOPHILES THINK YOU ARE BRAGGING WHEN YOU ARE SHARING? Elizabeth, I am speechless.Bravo. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? All on vinyl:Bruford - Gradually Going Tornado (just found a mint promo copy in a nearby vinyl shop for $5!)Cheap Trick - Cheap TrickType O Negative - Dead AgainOrmandy/Philadephia - Pictures At An ExhibitionDarol Anger/Barbara Higbie - Live At Mo... | |
| Integrated Amp Recommendation +1 with helomech; get the pot replaced for far less than $900. | |
| WHY DO SOME AUDIOPHILES THINK YOU ARE BRAGGING WHEN YOU ARE SHARING? n80:"What type of experience does one have to have to claim to be an "audiophile?" I would say anyone who posts here. Otherwise, they would be bored to tears."...but who has experienced everything?" No one. However, it's a bit sad that someone has... | |
| WHY DO SOME AUDIOPHILES THINK YOU ARE BRAGGING WHEN YOU ARE SHARING? But it is interesting and a bit troubling that those who claim to be audiophiles, sometimes comment negatively on other’s component choices when they themselves have no experience with them or have never even listened to them. The ever increasing ... | |
| Guitar Solos Apron Strings - John Entwistle, Whistle Rhymes: solo by Peter FramptonMusical Box - Genesis, Nursery Cryme: solo by Steve HackettDazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin I: solo by Jimmy PageNevermore - UK: solo by Allan HoldsworthAqualung - Jethro Tull,... | |
| SPEAKERS JUMPER CABLES Check with AG member b4icu. He has all the answers and will have you jump with 0 AWG wire.Ha! | |
| Is this out there In the sixth grade circa 1969, our teacher played us a 16 rpm record that had, if I remember correctly, Boris Karloff reading Edgar Allan Poe stories. The Black Cat, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Telltale Heart. Priceless, now that I recall them; ... | |
| The sense of smell evokes memories, while the sense of hearing evokes emotions Playback of recorded music is the closest thing we have to a time machine. It is an art form that exists in the time domain and, unlike film, which is experienced in a similar manner, music works through a sense that doesn't require light, and at ... | |
| No one actually knows how to lculate what speaker cable they need He keeps banging on about damping factor too when it is NOT predictive as to how an amp, cable, speaker will sound. In fact, damping factor means nothing. To my ears, those amps with the highest DF sound like (your favorite scatological noun here)... | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? Geoff: Now you’re talking my language! I wonder if there’s a dialectic with faster break in properties than air? Unobtanium? Dark matter? Event horizons?And, is air directional? | |
| Big vintage amps worth paying for and keeping for a long time Any of the Krell CX series of Full Power Balanced amps |