swampwalker
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| Faint click from speakers If the clicks only start after the system has been playing a few hours, my guess is that there is a bad part somewhere. I had something similar and it turned out to be a bad tube in my pre. OTOH, maybe its something getting ready to fail in your P... | |
| Tube Integrated with Headphone Cary 300 SEI. | |
| Active speakers with 15" woofers, need a list GR Research (I think I have that right) sells a kit for an open baffle speaker that has dual 12" powered woofers and a 12" co-ax. Heard it at RMAF and it ROCKED!!! when driven by Gary Dodd's 18wpc el-84 amp. | |
| Direct TV and digital hum problems ground loop thru cable co-ax? Try ground isolation transformer on the co-ax. A good trial is to put two of those 300 ohm to 75 x-formers back to back. co-ax to 75 ohm to 300 ohm to 300 ohm to 75 ohm to co-ax. | |
| McCormack Power amp "buzz" Try lifting the ground on the Decco and the McCormack one at a time. | |
| Any experience of noisy transformer on Jadis amps Elizabeth gives good advice. You should also check to make sure that a mounting bolt is not loose, or that there is not excessive DC on your power line. | |
| Audiophiles are older than dirt 24/25 here (never knoew anyone w a Packard until they started turning up at antique car shows)! Clearly OTD. | |
| A "blind" speaker recommendation based on specs... As has Almarg (given you excellent advice, that is). You need to look the minimum impedence of the speaker and the way that the sensitivity was reported. Even with that, if the potential upgrade is "uber-expensive" I'd want a return policy. | |
| suggestions on small footprint phono stages ZYX Artisan. Very compact, simple, MM and MC, battery op, NO noise, bettered Asthetix Rhea Signature, competes w (but less flexible than) Manley Steelhead, does not quite get to the level of phono stages in Doshi Alaap or Vac Ren Mk2 but was not e... | |
| Headphone Amp AND good Preamp Actually it would be head-fi.org. | |
| Downsizing and child proofing Budget? w/o that, a couple I would suggest are Sequerra Met 7s and Merlin TSMs or even for clean, quick and diminutive, NHT Super Zeros w a sub. | |
| Matching an amp to the Vandersteen 3a signatures Another good choice would be McCormack DNAs. If you can find an SMcAudio modified DNA 1.0 that would be a good choice for a little over $1K, leaving about the same for a good tube pre. I had the 3A sigs w SMc-modded 1.0 and vertical bi-amped w a p... | |
| The CD player is dead....... I was trying to avoid this one, but just like the train wreck that it is, I couldn't control myself. Bill- its not nice to bait a chained bear, if he got loose he might knock you into a coMa. PO- off your meds again? Peace.Spock out | |
| Pre-audition advice needed Thp= Maybe is goes w/o saying but I'll say it anyways. I think you need to decide if you are going to go the dealer route or the buy (used) and try route. Don't have the dealer set up a demo, make your selection and then buy on-line. T'ain't fair.... | |
| Question about lower freq response. There is a lot more to bass response than cone size and total radiating area. |