williewonka
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| Hi-Fi Fuses - SNAKE OIL? - or something in it? Lacee - fortunately you now post on a forum where sniping at a person's post is "minimal" - but there is always someone that has a "Humble Opinion" to express :-) To question someones findings to me seems moot - after all, it's - your system - you... | |
| Hi-Fi Fuses - SNAKE OIL? - or something in it? Mapman - Interesting - but it appears you need lots of them - speakers, fuses, caps, power supply...It would cost a fortune to cover a complete system.I also think the amount of improvement is relative to the quality of the components you are usin... | |
| Hi-Fi Fuses - SNAKE OIL? - or something in it? Krell_man and Roxy54 - I have also found that good outlets make for MUCH better performance!I use Pass and Seymour MRI grade outlets at $26/outlet - used for ancillary equipment in MRI installationsI don't know how they compare with the Afterburne... | |
| Hi-Fi Fuses - SNAKE OIL? - or something in it? Mapman...My only question would be why is it that a more expensive fuse is needed to do better over what you started with? There may be some other very well constructed generall purpose fuses available that are NOT marketed to audiophiles that mig... | |
| Hi-Fi Fuses - SNAKE OIL? - or something in it? Jmcgrogan2 - thanks for the kind words - I aim to amuse - sometimes :-) Didn't want to get into "the fog clearing" or "my ears going through a miraculous transition!" and my all time favourite "the veil has been lifted" - I gotta try wearing that ... | |
| Hi-Fi Fuses - SNAKE OIL? - or something in it? Jfrech - breakers also come in a variety of prices...- thermal $10-30- thermal/magnetic $40+++I choose a name brand thermal for $15, because the market is flooded with the "not-so-good product" from - guess where :-) The nice thing about breakers ... | |
| Difference in quality in products made in China? Been there - done that - got the repair billsWon't ever buy components or wire from china EVER!,Some iec connectors/plugs seem to be OK. Since most stuff is built there these days its probably the same as with everything else - buy brand names! | |
| How much AC is too much. To make it even more ugly, some of the new gear out of china is designed to work at a voltage lower than 120 - not sure why.I had a Chinese built tube amp and had to get it fixed because it destroyed a set of tubes in 6 months.Run that at 127 volt... | |
| how do YOU stream? Apologies - that should have read "Stager Silver Solid Interconnects" | |
| how can I make the back wall transparent? So exactly what did I hear during this process....The staging from left to right was already very precise. For this I used a well recorded classical orchestral track because I know where the stringed instruments should be - e.g. left to right - vi... | |
| how can I make the back wall transparent? Aggielaw the following dimensions apply to the centre of the front of the speaker 23.5 inches from side wall and 37.25 inches from rear wallThe speakers are toe-in 0.5 inch.I tried several toe-in angles, but for the Sonograms in this room the angl... | |
| the best, cost-no-object, music streamer? Adj243 - while you are in the planning stages consider hard drive failure!This just happened to me and reloading my CD's was a pita.I now have all my music on a NAS drive that has dual drives in a RAID mirrored configuration. If one of the drives ... | |
| the best, cost-no-object, music streamer? Adj243 - while you are in the planning stages consider hard drive failure!This just happened to me and reloading my CD's was a pita.I now have all my music on a NAS drive that has dual drives in a RAID mirrored configuration. If one of the drives ... | |
| Want To Hear How Amazing Computer Audio Can Be? Hifiharv - how much do you want to spend - does that include the computer or do you have one?A very simple implementation would be to plug you computers speaker jack into you hi-fi - load iTunes (or one of many others) to play the music or stream ... | |
| Entry-level speaker cables There are some options from Van den Jul that will fit your budget if you can find a dealer. The Clearwater is a great entry level and the CS - 122 Hybrid is an exceptional performer to step up to.They are excellent quality and perform extremely we... |