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| Pass Lab Amp questions, back of amps, power cable & 12v trigger. Pass labs amplifiers come with a heavy gauge generic power cord. Most Pass Lab owners upgrade the stock power cable. The 12v trigger accepts bare wire and can be used with any preamp that employs a trigger output. | |
| Does VPI ADS work with Basis Gold Debut? @lewm, as previously noted, the current SOTA Eclipse motor controller can only drive a 3-phase BLC motor. The old Phoenix Eagle drives a single phase motor. | |
| What's going on at Krell Anymore info available, or did the new(?) owners go back underground? | |
| Does VPI ADS work with Basis Gold Debut? @lewm , the ADS is VPI’s latest motor controller. It replaced the SDS. Rumour has it that SOTA will be reviving the old Phoenix Eagle / Roadrunner for a single phase AC synchronous motor. SOTA’s current motor controller (Eclipse) is for thei... | |
| Wrapping power cords and interconnects with copper foil. If it works for you…..it works for you. IMHO, a properly shielded cable will not benefit from additional shielding. | |
| I need a little help from a UK, German, Greek or Israel member. Try using a VPN with Greece as the target country. | |
| Enough is Enough Don’t let that one salesperson ruin your experience. There are a lot of highly qualified and experienced audio sales people around who are willing to add value to your purchasing journey. | |
| Are new Mark Levinson Preamps better than old? If you want a better preamp than the ML380 and want to stay in the ML family, don't look forward, look backwards to the ML26S. | |
| VPI Prime Upgrade People change from their current turntable to a different manufacture all the time. Sometimes you just want to try something different. | |
| Any regrets in selling gear? Sometimes you change equipment for the sake of change……this mindset can lead to regret selling. Be happy with what you have. | |
| How To Control The Eager Beaver Most automatic turntable are now very old and are in need of lubrication and servicing. Most of the gears used in auto table are mode from plastic which have become hard and brittle which can result is loss of gear teeth. | |
| Tonearm Mfg's mistake If you bought the Kuzma brand new it would have come with a protractor. | |
| Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say? Context is important. The OP stated that the owner was giving him a tour of their house which implies that this is either a new or casual friend. He didn’t invite them over for a “listening session” of a shared hobby. | |
| Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say? I work out every day and eat really healthy and for some reason when I tell my friends that they look fat, ugly and out of shape….and that I can help them, it’s not taken well. What’s wrong with them? | |
| Krell Moves to new location Silence is never a good sign….if they were confident that Krell would re-emerge, they would give the market more information and manage expectations. |