thaluza
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| Lexicon RV-8 query followup-fan noise? I owned the RV-8 and had the same experience as Csmgolf. The constant fan noise was unacceptable. | |
| 1/4'' ding / chip on a glossy black speaker Garebear,I had a couple of 1/4 inch chips on my piano black Merlin VSM's repaired by Merlin for around $50 to $60 per chip. | |
| New Variac for Joule Electra Amps Hi Outlier,Have you contacted Joule Electra and asked if they will sell a new variac to you? That would be great if they would. I thought Jud Barber retired recently due to age and health concerns. | |
| New Variac for Joule Electra Amps I have a VZN-80. It is 7 years old. Last year, the variac started to get very hot and there was a burning smell. I did not look to see if there was any glowing. I took the variac to my local tech, and it turned out the problem was a defective fuse... | |
| record store day: missed the CAKE I received mine yesterday. I played two albums. They are both very quiet, no clicks or pops whatsoever. I think the sound quality is excellent. | |
| "New" Beatles Mono Catalog Release on 180gr Vinyl I just bought the mono version of MMT. IMO, it is the best Beatles pressing that I own of any of their albums. I also have the German stereo pressing of MMT. I have all of the Odeon red vinyl mono releases, which I think are quite good, but if MMT... | |
| end of an era ...... From Signature Sound's Facebook page, posted on July 15:"Jud Barber (Joule-Electra) is pretty much retired now. He may still be building the occasional piece..." | |
| record store day: missed the CAKE This from Cake's Facebook page, posted on May 20:"They are making more... I got word 2 weeks ago that ETA is 12 weeks, so 10 weeks left!" | |
| Amplifier is now off the Power Conditioner I have a BPT BP-1 and a Furman P-2400 IT, both balanced power conditioners. My system typically draws 3.5 amps if I use my 300b amp. (my system draws almost 9 watts with my OTL amp!). Last week, I plugged my entire system, with the 300b amp, into ... | |
| Care to recommend a preamp? I am a former owner of the Chenin and I owned two versions of the SLP-98, the stock MM version, and the direct coupled F1 MC version. This is my experience in my system:Chenin: Pros: Very good phono stage. Later Chenins have the same phonostage as... | |
| record store day: missed the CAKE This was just added to the Cake website:"Pre-order Campaign Coming Soon." | |
| record store day: missed the CAKE Seems like the vinyl set will be available through Cake's website:"Coming soon...the CAKE Vinyl Box Set...Eight CAKE albums manufactured on 175g audiophile quality colored vinyl with fully restored artwork for each title and remastered for optimum... | |
| merlin vsm owners , what is your room size ? 14 x 13 x 8.5 | |
| Do I have a "balance" problem? I had a similar issue. For me, the problem was with speaker placement. The speakers were equal distant to my chair, within a quarter inch. However, one speaker was slightly further from the back wall and the toe-in was slightly different than the ... | |
| Joule Electra VZN100 Replace with what? IME, Jud was very accessible and easy to talk to before his wife passed away. He is harder to get in contact with now. Seems he has delegated a lot to Simon.I have thought about giving up my Joule VZN-80 MKV Musicwood because of the heat, a low le... |