stuogawa
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| Why Don't More People Into Music Reproduction At Home Play Around With Musical Instruments I currently practice piano about 1 to 1.5 hours a day. First 20 minutes of scales, circle of fifths, and pieces from Hanon. Next 20 minutes of site read playing and playing those pieces to a metronome for timing. Then the remaining time is divi... | |
| Best Cheap Amps for Magneplanar Speakers Sounds like your bent on SS; someone mentioned earlier Threshold equipment that comes up from time to time for around $1k; that would be smart; earlier Audio Research SS amps also come up for around the same price as well. Both could fill the SS b... | |
| Bottlehead Crack feedback on crack* built my crack about 4 years ago* using a senn 600 since day 1 with the crack* very straight forward build* added the speed ball mod 6 months after building the crack - just do it, you will never look back; inexpensive upgrade a... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Thanks for the tip CT. Will call Bruce.Dealer is very well known in this community. He makes calls every week.Bruce no longer has vmail; it just rings or someone picks up.I have purchased items from Bruce directly, like the carbon fiber arm, new w... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Thanks for the tip CT. Will call Bruce.Dealer is very well known in this community. He makes calls every week.Bruce no longer has vmail; it just rings or someone picks up.I have purchased items from Bruce directly, like the carbon fiber arm, new w... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Hi,First time poster in this area.QuestionAnyone experiencing delays receiving arm parts from ET for their ET arms?I have had my Sota /ET2 at The Analog Room for over 2 months. Requires a part from ET. Brian at Analog keeps calling ET and told par... | |
| Tube amp repair recommendations - San Diego? * Received call from Mike late afternoon 9/5/09. * Problem identified and solved. No charge.* Two ceramic capacitors intermittently failing. One for each channel.* Mike stated in the 30 plus years of servicing Dyna ST70s, he has never seen these t... | |
| Tube amp repair recommendations - San Diego? * Started getting intermittent static discharge noises from the Dyna ST 70s. Occurs after about 15 to 30 minutes of warm up time. * Issue characterized as if a build up of electricity is occurring and then intermittently discharges and sounds like... | |
| Tube amp repair recommendations - San Diego? * Dropped off my Conrad Johnson PV 1 preamp to Mike about 3 weeks ago. http://www.conradjohnson.com/It_just_sounds_right/a-PV1.html* PV 1 stopped working. * Mike had never worked on a PV 1 and did not have schematic. * Traced problem to two main c... | |
| Tube amp repair recommendations - San Diego? * Picked up my amps yesterday, Thursday; 6 days after dropping off* I have one amp already plugged in and warming up for 24 hours. * Played some of my records through it. (Sota/ETII/Sumiko,AudioResearch SP14 pre, Dyna --> Janzen electrostat low... | |
| Tube amp repair recommendations - San Diego? * Received a call from Mike yesterday 8/31/09, as he promised. How many service shops have you worked with that have follow through like this?* Amp status updates - couple of original diodes went out; transformers and tubes all fine; one on/off sw... | |
| Tube amp repair recommendations - San Diego? I dropped off my 2 Dyna ST70s yesterday (Aug 25 2009). Mike asked me good questions re. history, service, issues. (a good sign). First impression - A service engineer's service engineer based on his line of questions and his "lab" equipment. It wa... | |
| Tube amp repair recommendations - San Diego? I called Mike. Turns out he is less than 15 minutes from my work. Very reasonable. I will probably drop off both ST70s to him for service next week. I will post my results.Re. mods...RickMac is correct; he prefers to do non mod work, which is ok w... | |
| Tube amp repair recommendations - San Diego? Magfan, would appreciate your help.Nkj/Rickmac...thanks...I will give Mike a call. | |
| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE Not the best but staying under my roof...Magnepan / Audio Research Tympani II for 18 years; resurfaced 7 years ago. Interesting that the Audio Research name, which is enscribed on the Magnepan model number plate, were partnered together back then.... |