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| Can someone explain to me why : Accupahse Equipment is that expensive ? My experience with high end gear from Japan is that it may be much cheaper to buy it there, but the price here is often double (or more), due in part to the cost of maintaining a dealer network, mark-up and support. (There may also be tariffs but ... | |
| How much should a person spend to get a decent power conditioner? @newf27- Did the additional grounding help with your low level hum?Because that sounds like a grounding issue. Those can be very troublesome to sort, in part because of the different grounding schemes within the components comprising a system that... | |
| Best sounding Beatles Vinyl from tape I am not a Beatles collector: there are, however a few web resources that may help: [url]http://yokono.co.uk/collection/beatles/beatles.html[/url][url]http://www.rarebeatles.com/boxsets/boxset.htm#BOXSET[/url] There was another site that is now go... | |
| How much should a person spend to get a decent power conditioner? @helomech- I believe the brick wall technology was developed by Zero Surge out of Frenchtown NJ, who sell their own units, from two outlet jobs to industrial sized panels. | |
| How much should a person spend to get a decent power conditioner? It’s sounds like you are after both surge protection and trying to improve the sound? On surge I use a whole house, not expensive, but you need to replace when the pilot lites indicates the MOVs are no longer effective. Plus I use a very large com... | |
| Unofficial (Bootleg) LPs As you know, Discogs now blocks any listing that shows "unofficial" as label/source. My suspicion is that neither E Bay nor Amazon block such offerings unless they receive a notice, similar to a take-down notice, from a party in interest (e.g., so... | |
| Record collection sales addvice Given what I buy, I need to know which specific pressing, mastering, plant, etc. Perhaps this is irrelevant to some genres and types of records, but there is a considerable difference in value among different pressings of older rock, blues, prog, ... | |
| Wet Cleaning records makes things worse? Is this the product? [url]http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/2365478.pdf?_ga=2.251195343.832898279.1529509380-1287413366.152950...[/url]That’s the material data sheet. I’m not a chemist but the ingredients are used as a surfactant (to break surface... | |
| Beware the audio guru @frogman - re your observation #2, I think it underscores that all the gear fiddling is a hobby for its own sake and may be related to better sound reproduction in a "test" setting, but is not necessarily connected to the enjoyment of music. In fa... | |
| Design flaw in Esoteric DV-60? One thought if neither PS nor Esoteric have a solution is to ask whether a beefy external power supply can be substituted. i know this is done with computers and other gear that uses wall warts- but perhaps the board in question involves more than... | |
| Design flaw in Esoteric DV-60? I have the Eaton on the main panel it was around $100 plus the electrician’s time to install it which wasn’t much, because he was doing a whole lot of other work here. For the main system, everything runs from dedicated lines fed by a Controlled P... | |
| Audio Research SP3-a1 Purely for informational purposes, from that legacy database of ARC stuff: http://www.arcdb.ws/SP3/SP3.html Love the black and gold faceplate now. It's totally pimp. I thought it garish when I bought mine new, and went for silver. PS: schematic fo... | |
| Audio Research SP3-a1 I know someone who got an old unit upgraded and modified to some "C" specification, which apparently makes it sound more modern. I can check who did the work but doubt it will be much cheaper. I had a new one back in the day- it was a revelation, ... | |
| Design flaw in Esoteric DV-60? That sucks. I gather that you keep it plugged in b/c it has a standby function and loses its sonic mojo if running from a cold start. (I had that issue with a Lamm Ref line stage- you were supposed to leave the power supply powered up but lighteni... | |
| What is a good cleaning agent for components @dweller makes a good point about proceeding with caution. If you are comfortable that the lettering won't be removed, I learned about Endust for Electronics from Vlad Lamm. My line stage had gone in for updates some years ago, and it came back lo... |