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| Favorite Female vocals that give you goose bumps Early Joan Baez on Vangaurd - half the reason I resurrected my analog system a couple of months ago -CD transfers either aren't available or not quit equal to the LP's. Simply astonishing voice.The funny thing is I'm still digging thru the LP pile... | |
| Ceiling Exhaust Fan -How loud is .5 sones? Got talked into replacing two bathroom exhaust fans for a good friend and customer some years ago - half way thru the project I understood why his regular handeyman had passed on it.My buddy wanted less racket in the bathrooms of his buisness - fo... | |
| HELP I think I have an electrical issue?? First- did you ever try shorting the inputs to the amps to see if this made any difference?I might have missed this?Second - a trick that I picked up from a broadcast engineer friend of mine is occasionally helpful in tracing down this kind of pro... | |
| Which CD players have AES/EBU digi outs? Jpinter - ya nailed it! UPS just delivered a EBU-SP/DIF adapter - works great.BTW -Benchmark folks were pleasant to deal with and follow thru on what they promise -nice product from nice folks.This probably saved me grand -since i was seriously co... | |
| Turntable advice? Over the years have heard a number of "British" systems that were very heavily ( at least in dollars/pounds spent) weighted in favor of the source - in a couple of cases around two thirds of the expenditure was on arm/table/cart - with the amp/spe... | |
| Ground wires for Oracle-Delphi MKIII TT Where do these wires originate on the turntable? Do you have the separate termination box on this turntable? Basically - with ground wires - you keep attaching them until the hum get's louder - then you take off the last one you attached.Weirdly e... | |
| Blown fuse and its soldering to a PCB Final note: Most service depts. will stock what are commonly referred to as "pigtail" fuses - these come from the factory with the wire already soldered to the end caps - much easier to use than trying to solder to the fuse without overheating it ... | |
| When do you know when your tubes are going bad If it's been sitting for years unpowered/unused - the first thing i would suspect is that a electrolytic cap(s) has gone bad.But you know - everyone's telling you to test the tubes for a good reason - cheap-easy - and real easy to fix if some tube... | |
| Blown fuse and its soldering to a PCB When I serviced this stuff -always hated this.If it is possible -I would solder in fuse holders instead.BEFORE you do this -look at both sides of the board - is this going to even come close to touching another trace or component if you add holder... | |
| whole house protection See if you can find Leviton's white paper on this subject.To grossly oversimplify ( I'm not a sparky so can't go beyond that). You need one device installed across the service entrance - in other words the three wires that actually bring power int... | |
| What tubes for ST-70 No reason to replace the GZ-34 unless it goes bad and that may take decades.Not a fan of 7199's - they don't age all that gracefully - might want to consider some of the alternative driver boards - nothing actually just substitutes for the 7199 - ... | |
| Is it worth it to repair a cj pv2ar? Sold both back in the day - PV-5 was less noisy - both are sorta classic "tube" sound and there's nothing wrong with music that comes thru them.Frankly -even a PV-5 is old enough to have some potential problems ( electrolytic caps)- if you enjoy y... | |
| Quicksilver amp owners Also own KT88 Mono's -remember all the 88's are at least 13-14 years old .Mine were remarkably good sounding even with pretty sad valves in 'em. Once re-tubed (MP's of JJ Kt-88's ),NOS 12FQ7's and Chinese 5AR4's - they are simply wonderful. Bass p... | |
| Need help with phono cartridge selection If part of your question is how to get proper loading/matching for these cartridges:1.) The low output should be run with the pre-amp set to the MC position for the phono input.2.) Most high output MC carts were designed to mimic standard MM carts... | |
| Warped Records Apparently as a result of misbehavior in a past life - I was part owner of a record store in the late 70's/early 80's.During that time period the record companies had gone from a defective return policy that allowed us to return defectives for ide... |