sugarbrie
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| What does Holographic mean to you? Something from Star Trek and Star Wars. | |
| power conditioning - source vs amps I have never compared the two together, but in some respects it may also depend on how big a PS Audio Powerplant you use. If you have a small one and the amplifier gets power hungry, I could see where there would be limitations in performance. | |
| FM/AM Tuner under around $500 The first thing you need to decide is whether you want a modern digital tuner that has preset stations and a remote control, or, whether you want a vintage manual dial tuner.Next you need to decide whether sound quality, or, the ability to tune in... | |
| Referrence music.... Among many recordings, I like any of the piano trios performed by the Beaux Arts Trio. Just nice and clean violin, piano, and cello (high, mids, and mid bass) on one recording with many solo sections for each instrument.I find that usually if the ... | |
| Gain vs Volume....a question? This information was posted by Blue Circle's Gilbert Yeung in the Blue Circle forum. "This is a topic I have been thinking about posting for a long time and never had a chance to do it. But nows the time.........In order to understand what I am g... | |
| Acoustic Research Speakers AR-90 One place for speaker repair is http://www.speakerworks.net/$30 for one speaker, $55 for two, $98 for four..They also offer Do-It-Yourself kits if your handy...Another place that will do it or sell you DIY kit is:http://www.speakerrepair.com/Call ... | |
| Acoustic Research Speakers AR-90 Is it the foam surrounds that are gone? You could have the existing speaker's foam surrounds redone. | |
| Sweet Spot? Some of them were designed more for near field listening; and have a tight sweet spot by design. I think the Innersound Eros are narrow on purpose.. | |
| B&W 804 with ??? For hybrids look at the various Blue Circle amplifiers. Currently BC24 and BC28, but also a used BC2 Mono's and the BC6. Among the various speakers Blue Circle uses to demo their designs, it includes the Nautilus 804. | |
| Best integrated w/ built in phono $1K-$1.5K used? Add to the list the YBA Integre DT. Phono is optional, so ask. You could also have it added to one without it. It will be either MM or MC (not switchable). A remote is also option. Ask about remote if you want one, because older units are not remo... | |
| Phono pre-amp problems That 9V battery powered Radio Shack phono pre is actually pretty good. They do still sell it. Battery power makes it pretty quiet. | |
| New hum in preamp power supple and BPT 3.5 ??? Brooks1 could very well be right on the money. The tranformer hum is a problem with the electrical current, so give the new 20amp lines a try. Good thing to have anyway... | |
| New hum in preamp power supple and BPT 3.5 ??? Oh..rats... My last comment then means it might be hard to fix. The same thing that the conditioner fixes (ie, the gear transformers won't hum); unfortunitely the conditioner's transformers are getting the same "off" power from your neighborhood p... | |
| Leaving HT for 2 channel-Good or Not? If you're "watching" the movie and not just listening to the soundtrack, then 2 channel movies are just as good as surround.Keep your sub... | |
| New hum in preamp power supple and BPT 3.5 ??? You have transformer hum right? If so, sounds like it could be "DC Offset". This will probably not be helped by AC ground changes. (which is called a "ground loop hum").Here are some of the possible causes....A. Too high AC mains voltage for the p... |