timo
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| Which components knocked you out on first listen? Legacy Audio Focus 20/20 loudspeakers | |
| Senior Audiophiles - Audiophile since the 60-70's? 1. Audio Enthusiast since my first decent system purchased in about 1975.2. That's a tuff one. Probably the seventies for the vast vinyl offered including audiophile 'Heavy Vinyl' recordings. The nineties for tremendous advances in all areas of an... | |
| Help, I need to purchase FM outdoor antenna Look at Yagi. They make antennas for ham radio, perhaps they make AM/FM units too. | |
| Tonearm Cable Question I agree with Clueless. Make damn sure the cable will transfer all of that "very small" signal to the phono pre or stepup device. | |
| SS amps that sound like tubes? I use Ayre V-3s in my system in a biamped configuration. They put out 200 w/ch into a 4 ohm load. Very musical! | |
| Inverted Polarity Correction Question Keep it simple Socrates. . .just reverse right and left interconnects from preamp to amp and you should be good to go! | |
| Cardas Machined RCA Caps.??? Michael:Some preamps don't like their inputs shorted, that is why Cardas makes their RCA Caps with no shorting center conductor. | |
| Phono Preamp Needs Try an ARC Ref. phono preamp or on the less expensive side, an Acoustech PHP-1. The Herron and CJ Premier 15 are excellent as well and all should handle your cartridge output needs. | |
| Helpful Hint When Cleaning Records Good idea Herman! That's what I do on my 17F. | |
| Can I run my Amp from a Line Conditioner? Rick:I have had no problem running my equipment through a Tice Solo AV line conditioner, however, I now use a PS Audio P600 Power Plant with even better "musical" results. I can honestly say that with the Tice I was NOT experiencing any current li... | |
| Equipment Break-in: Fact or Fiction It's a fact Jack! | |
| Cheap Old Preamps And don't overlook the Apt Holman preamp. | |
| Should preamp be left turned on? Leave it on. Power down and unplug only during electrical storms. | |
| 2nd amp or one bigger amp? Keep in mind that if you biamp, you will have to match the impedance and output levels of the amps if they are of different types/models. In your instance with a tight budget, I would go for one larger amp. The 11 is a fair choice. | |
| Best Cd player 1000.00 range used as transport ? Why are you looking for a CD player if you are going to bypass the DAC section? Look for a dedicated transport instead. Look at the Muse Model Five and Theta Data Basic II. You can find them used for well under $1000. |