theaudiotweak
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| Amp stands for Pass Labs Grant,Did you place the amps stands you tried directly on the floor or were they placed inside another piece of furniture?While you were at demo with these amps and amp stands what were your source components placed on and enclosed? Tom | |
| Upgrade fuses in Active ATC SCM 50 speakers? The power supply is the first source and is always in the signal path. Anyway in which you can improve the power supply will make for an improvement in signal transfer. I have replaced all the fuses in my system with magnets. The greatest improvem... | |
| What paint sheen? If you had unlimited finances finish the columns with Anti Vibrational Magic {AVM} it works. Next would be a spray stone paint finish available at the Depot or Lowes. If the columns you have now are of the right angle type remove them and replace ... | |
| Lead Shot Substitute for Loading Speaker Cabinets? If you couple the speakers properly then you don't have to fill anything, worry about toxic abuse or the dark slow muddy sound of over damping a circuit or a speaker. Tom | |
| Lead Shot Substitute for Loading Speaker Cabinets? At Larry Staples {original to LSA}house one evening who had worked with Von Schweikert. We removed the shot from his prototype speakers under test. Replaced with direct coupled Audiopoints. Less dark more speed and a much more dynamic stage. He ne... | |
| Wool Rugs Stan,If you decide on a large area rug over tile or wood..I would suggest you look into a jute underlayment instead of the typical rebond foam pad. The jute/hair/wool has more surface area and will act as wider bandwidth filter less tuned to a spe... | |
| Wyred 4 Sound STP Floyd,In my system the Wyred preamp offers as much flesh as my previous Melos or Belles preamps yet with better definition lower noise floor and greater flexiblity. I think neither the Melos or Belles are your traditional thick in the middle tube ... | |
| Wyred 4 Sound STP Today, I was delivered my order of Vishay Z foil resistors. 2 of these resistors are intended to replace the 100 ohm Dales that are always in the signal path regardless of the resistor setting selected with the volume control. I have in the past r... | |
| Rack Recommendation for VK-600 Starsound Sistrum the only direct coupled rack on this planet. Tom | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Years ago while upgrading my Dunlavy SC4's the first thing I did was seal the interior walls of the enclosure. Huge difference. Next was to build a multi resistor bridge using Vishay metal film resistors..Huge difference enough to make me wake my ... | |
| Wyred 4 Sound STP 5 channel surround sound effect with only 2 speakers and 2 wave launched subs. Underwater, totally immersed. Floor to ceiling stage that extends wall to wall. Bass that now excites the room in ways that I never heard before. Center channel stabilt... | |
| Wyred 4 Sound STP-SE Preamp There is a thread already started 7-30..I bought the SE the first week of July from description and photo only. Tom | |
| Wyred 4 Sound STP I have taken note of my normal numeric listening setting as indicated on the front panel of this preamp...between 32 and 47. With 2 resistors at each setting and others on the output board I would only need to swap the supplied Dales which are ver... | |
| Wyred 4 Sound STP I purchased the SE version of this wonderful preamp based on circuit description and photos only. I am glad I did. The controls work as described, almost totally silent mechanically and dead quiet sonically. Balance control on remote allows one to... | |
| wyred4sound amps As does their new SE pre amp. Tom |