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| Upgading my H/T system - What to do??????? Figure out how much you are willing to spend.Go listen to several systems costing as much.Come home, pour yourself a really good glass of wine.If, after listening to the new stuff, your own system still sounds so bad, go spend some money. | |
| What are all these different output jacks for? Phil prety much said it all. As far as the other outputs go, you will find numerous threads discussing the values of Optical (that's fibre optics...glass interconnects are much better than plastic), coax which there seems tp be a slight(?)preponde... | |
| Using RCA & XLR connections at same time on Amp Mcaintosh has the switch---and the folks at McIntosh are very emphatic: "Don't do it!!!!" | |
| Cheap tweaks...What would YOU reccomend? Nice Thread! | |
| Using RCA & XLR connections at same time on Amp Warning: Some amps, especially those that are not truly balanced share some parts at the balanced/unbalanced ports. So, while you are using balanced, you might be sending a signal back up the line to the unbalanced components. The switch, in this ... | |
| Jazz in San Francisco Getting around the San Francisco Bay Area is not all that hard to do. While getting a Taxi in San Francisco is now much easier to do, understand that a round trip Bart ticket to Berkeley or Oakland is still cheaper.One suggestion to getting a Taxi... | |
| FM/AM versus Analog versus Digital Kenwood, and even more so...Fisher made some really fantastic tuners. There are some people who refurbish these old tuners and they are a real treat to listen to and they make for quite the conversation piece. | |
| FM/AM versus Analog versus Digital All of the above answers are very accurate. I have a very old Fisher AM/FM tuner that has been recently refurbished and I do enjoy listening to it. While I really do like the sound coming from it, I do know the limitations. Still, it is fun to lis... | |
| Questions about Toslink's Sogood, I checked out your copperbox.com suggestion. this is good as I have been using a somewhat similiar Radio Shack Switcher, but I have been worried that it can't prioritize between signals. I like the fail-safe feature in copperbox. | |
| Cables for a fledgling system I am a true believer in cable/interconnects that are just above what comes with your components.Acoustic Zen is a great source of cables that, even new, are affordable. Used, I consider this shop pure nirvana. Once you have begun to upgrade cables... | |
| Which headphone amplifier with balanced input? I just checked out some of the above sites. Thank you! | |
| Tube substitution chart on the Net? Wow. And you call yourself....clue-less? | |
| It's No Fun Being a Guru Anymore Leave it alone. the best you can do is try to get the best wires in the home that you can so that, no matter what, they can make changes at a later date. Yes, you could ask them to gather together two or three of their favorite CDs and take them t... | |
| Electro-Magnetic storm to hit Earth today. Shee-it; If i have reached such temporal-mental level in audiophilia that I have to worry about sunspots...well Old Sol can have the whole lot of it..... | |
| High Definition? Yes.Direct TV has four or five HD selections without buying into HBO, etc., or pay-per-view.The picture is so good that you will wish you had a printer to preserve the picture. Also, if is important to know if you live in an area that receives HD ... |