uru975
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| The Hub: Futterman H3: Seen one lately? Not exactly an audio comment but one on how business was done prior to Ma Bell being broken up.Long distance was expensive. The reason being was that local calls were just about free and service was cheap. Phones were given away free by the phone ... | |
| Great recording of William Tell Overture? Thanks philojet, that was wild! | |
| Coincident speakers have you checked the archives? There's a fair amount in there. | |
| Phono.. does this mean? Yes and NoIt probably definitely means that a moving magnet (MM) cartridge would work, it might also mean that a moving coil (MC) might not work, depending if it was a High Output(HO) or a Low Output(LO). Check the specs, if you can find them, and... | |
| SACD anamoly? Thank Plutos!At least it gives me a way to go.Incidently, just tried Walker Audio's Talisman on one, Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas the CD layer will at least now play. | |
| New to SET - Help in all areas Have heard some Wyetech 211 monoblocks with a coincident speaker. The wyetech are 45 watts/per and give plenty of power and focus. No other amp, so far, has been able to do what they do. Not cheap, even used, as I bought the ones I heard. With my ... | |
| Source for Vedernikov CDs/LPs amazon.com also has some, not as large a selection though.Try ordering one on jpophelp and see what happens as well.Regards,Michael | |
| Source for Vedernikov CDs/LPs try jpophelp.com they have a fair amount of his work | |
| Bass rant When my son was thinking of becoming a stereo salesman he was given a book/manual from the 1960's or 50's which had a section that said:When someone says the speaker/system/ has to much bassyou replay: Too much bass. No such thing | |
| Tubes for Conrad-Johnson MV-52 I always just called C-J and had them send me a replacement set. They put the work into selecting them for the sound they thought the amp should produce. The sound worked for me, till moving up to their Premier 11a's. | |
| Would an SACD Player improve my sound? Nice set up, I have the THOR Cantantus phono preamp. That said, I was at my friendly neighborhood hi-fi shop, since moved and then closed, sigh, and they had a Diana Krall CD playing on a so-so mid fi entry level set up. The CD player was SACD cap... | |
| Records are getting noisy Given the care you have given your records have your checked the stylus? Have you changed phono cables?Just throwing stuff at a wall and seeing if any sticks but based on your use of cleaners and history perhaps it is not the record. | |
| Phono cable idea's Hovland MusicGRoove2 works for me. Try the Cable Company, they will let you try one as well as a number of others from their lending library. Within that budget was my purchase, was willing to go higher but nothing they had at at least 2x the cost... | |
| This is a silly hobby. Foolishness is relativeIf one has relatives sooner or later one is foolishAudio is not so bad a way to go | |
| Number of records you have Had about 200 on my own, then one friend gave up vinyl entirely and gave me his collection, for another 800 albums, another friend gave me his for about another 150, and still another is about to give me hers for about 100 more. Even after weeding... |