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| Balanced cables: newbie DIY needs help Pin1 is ground/return, Pin2 is signal "hot", Pin3 is signal "cold". Hope this helps, regards, Richard @ vantageaudio.com | |
| Best Bach St. Matthews Passion Hello Doug, you may want to have a look at www.jsbach.org and see if they list one by Neville Marriner as I think he did a very good recording of this piece, regards, Richard | |
| Forget Clapton, Roger Modjeski is god Highly recommend his equipment. Also very helpful if you ever have need to talk to Roger. Regards, Richard. | |
| Test CD s, which ones to get. The Stereophile test cd's are a good start. Also have a look at the Soundcheck 2 test cd (one site that has info and price is at "http://www.interstudio.co.uk/sndchk.htm" although I believe it may be available slightly cheaper elsewhere) which has... | |
| Class A? In simple terms Class A means the output devices (solid state or tubed) are kept switched "ON" regardless of audio signal input from the amp driver stage to the output stage. That is why Class A amps run "hotter" than Class A/B or Class B where th... | |
| Trouble in Paradise with my Danes? May help if you have a test/cal tone on a cassette deck that you can use to generate a tone to check the left and right channel balance and phase. Or a test track on a cd. That will check what N0_money suggests. regards, Richard. | |
| Trouble in Paradise with my Danes? In addition to the above two good replies, something else you may also want to consider is that you could be causing your amp to "clip" and this will give you some weird and not-so-wonderful sounds. Just thinking of your comment about "...Denon wo... | |
| Vintage 12" W60 Alnico Wharfedales If this helps you, I know that one of our clients has a pair of these old 12" Wharfedale drivers NIB and I'm pretty sure he has the spec's for them as he planning on building cabinets and I can ask and get him to contact you. Email me thru member ... | |
| cable length In reply to Dekay and Panzercat and regarding the length of digital cables, there are indeed certain design parameters which dictate the "ideal" length and these include keeping relflected waves to a minimum. Speaking as a manufacturer we only mak... | |
| Measuring Vibration in Equipment What we have used is small etched piezo devices taped to equipment platforms and feeding a sensitive gain stage (actually a modified phono stage). This gives good results but you have to trial and error a lot to get a reference point from which yo... | |
| transformer Hum Re: Sorbothane, have a look at the following page on their website, www.sorbothane.com/page3a5.htm , it may help you. Email them from the link button and they will give you more info on the available form/shapes and where to obtain, hope this help... | |
| Cigarette Smoke Harm Solid State Unit ? Getting the reciever to kick the 60-a-day habit should help! Seriously though, try and speak to someone who is professionally involved with cleaning computer equipment and suchlike(keyboards, etc) as they should be able to give you an idea of the ... | |
| Anyone heard of this??? Must be a RABCO arm, which Harmon Kardon used on their linear tracking turntables from the 1970's. Heard one years ago, well built and solid HK decks but cannot recall too much about the arm. Regards, Richard. | |
| Best cable for internal speaker wiring?? Contact the speaker manufacturer prior to any modification you may be thinking of making to get their suggestions, you should find that a good starting point and you may be surpised at what they have to say on the subjetc. If you do decide to re-w... | |
| 4 stacked Quad ESL 57 VS Apogee Diva I would agree with Detlof and go with the Quads. Stacked in double pairs very similar to the original Mark Levinson HQD system, with Decca ribbons and Hartley bass drivers (or a good JBL bass driver). regards, Richard. |