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| power for mc452 and c2600 @lowrider57 - what is the breaker rating on your Furman? The one I have (and used for some ancillaries, not in the audio chain itself) had a 15 amp rating, though the wall plug for the Furman is a 20 amp type. Thus, the lower amperage breaker (at ... | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? @bdp24 - Yeah, I realized that later, when i saw that someone else had used "dreck" as a term of art. Hell, I’ll listen to stupid stuff too sometimes: I dig that song by the Spiral Starecase, I dig some Crystal Gayle, but at the same time I may sw... | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? @bdp24 - for the "record," I never referred to some of the Brill Building writers as "dreck." I did say a lot of pop even in the '60s was crap. "Dreck" I reserved for a lot of what's popular today. My point was separating the wheat from the chaff,... | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? It may have been covered in this thread already (sorry, I didn’t read the whole thing), but even in the days when the major labels had A&R staff, some good in-house producers and the wherewithal to procure and "develop" talent, much was crap. ... | |
| Insuring your Audio Room? @kennythekey - I don’t disagree with anything you said. However, I think the word umbrella is actually a term of art (I got what you meant). "Umbrella" as I understand it as a consumer in an insurance context, is extra liability insurance over and... | |
| Insuring your Audio Room? Ira- to me, the key would be to talk to different brokers who represent those companies since you will be dealing with the broker in the first instance. I doubt if you called Chubb (which is now part of Ace or the other way around) the insurer wou... | |
| Insuring your Audio Room? I’m not in the insurance business, so others who are might have a different view, but there is an economy in using the same company for all coverage. These high end insurance companies insure valuable art, yachts, etc. and are used to dealing with... | |
| Insuring your Audio Room? I changed my policy before I moved to increase the insurance on these items given that the equipment and records were going to be handled by movers (though I used specialty craters for the gear that didn’t have wooden shipping crates and packed th... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? I swore I wasn’t going to go down the rabbit hole-I have a main system with what are probably regarded as expensive cables. But I am still in the process of assembling a vintage system in another room, based on a pair of the original Quad ESLs tha... | |
| Best fuses for under $50? I recently got my Quad II amps restored. They appear to be quite early, from the era when the amps were made and used in mono, though I haven't verified what year. Through a stupid move on my part, one of the fuses cracked-(the fuse holders are or... | |
| power for mc452 and c2600 The other possibility at a this point is for the OP to obtain one or another of these units that he is asking about from a place like Music Direct or another vendor that provides a "no questions" return policy. He can then decide if there is any s... | |
| power for mc452 and c2600 I have a number of thoughts for the OP:I have not heard a power conditioner on an amp that i liked, compared to going straight in. (I haven’t heard the Audience, which seems to have very strong support from high end community, but don’t know if th... | |
| Preamp 6922 tube help Lounge- are you Morinix over on the Hoffman forum? If so, nice to see you here. | |
| A vote for the little guy suppliers I don’t know if these qualify as "little guys" because their gear is well known, but they are essentially one man operations: Lamm; Allnic.I’ll also throw a vote to Franc Kuzma, despite the fact that he runs what is now a substantial operation- he... | |
| Preamp 6922 tube help I haven’t rolled 6dj8 equivalents in a long while, but I preferred to Tele to the Siemens, even though the Siemens was probably the more linear tube, the Tele sounded more 3d in the mids. I suspect it was the character of the circuit. I think the ... |