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| 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... | |
| Building a listening room from scratch I remember you @unrecivedogma. You had an earlier thread about moving your records. You might try what the architect suggests - or other material at some point, since fabric doesn't have to cost a lot and installing it is probably less work and le... |