zaikesman
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| Noobie question ... Moganes: I see you are indeed an Agon forums "noobie" -- Welcome! Just checked out your system and other thread, and so can guess what may have prompted you to post this one. (I'll leave aside whether the response you got is quite the kind you wer... | |
| Noobie question ... Kal wrote:"...the old B&T controls can offer a modicum of tuning but, as you do, I prefer an adjustable shelving control."Yes, bands 1 & 3 on my PEQ can be switched for either peak (with adjustable center and Q) or shelving (with adjustabl... | |
| Levinson repair costs? Giltone: I imagine this must have been a not-uncommon problem with 38-series preamps. I haven't done anything about it in mine yet, mostly because I'm wary of the cost, and the fault is only intermitent and usually user-correctable when it happens... | |
| Noobie question ... Please excuse the essay, but I must beg to differ with the eminent Kal here, and also the extension from his comments that Macrojack suggests. Unless you're very careful, patient, and schooled, you can do a LOT more harm with an equalizer than you... | |
| Audience Au-24 With High Current Amp I too use Au24 -- sounds good, don't it? It does look scary-thin, but I try to bear in mind that thin as it seems, the wiring inside the speakers and especially the drivers' voice-coils is much thinner yet. Whatever, I've had no problems using it ... | |
| Do class A amps draw power even when turned off? Timrhu: Exactly how I came to know that factoid is lost in the mists of time, but I'm guessing I probably first ran across it in an audio mag (I'm an *audiophile*, we're not *supposed* to be technically knowledgable! ;^)But, after reading your com... | |
| Do class A amps draw power even when turned off? But class-A amps throw off the most heat when they are not passing a signal, unlike class-AB amps (in other words, no significant amount of the constant electrical power being consumed gets dissipated as sound power by the speaker when silent, so ... | |
| Review: Benchmark DAC1 DA converter Just to amplify the tipoffs to ID'ing counterfeit Mainsstreams, the fakes I've had the misfortune of inspecting show two color variations, while the genuine vdH can have two different plug types. Perhaps the best way to tell the difference at a gl... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I was looking around and noticed that Webb got the Rhino Handmade 5-disk box-set treatment of his 70's albums -- 2,500 copies, all sold out, but brief soundclips are online (a copy is on ebay now for $277, set sale -- basically a $200 markup). Har... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Yes, J. Webb the man has really managed to fly underneath the public's radar all these years, despite how many people know his name and reputation as a songwriter. When I found this CD it was actually came as a bit of a shocker to finally see a fa... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I've been A/B auditioning some interconnects and power cords over the last few days, so I'm primarily listening to a few familiar disks I find useful for sonic evaluations, including stuff like Bill Evans' "Waltz For Debby" and The Buena Vista Soc... | |
| Review: Benchmark DAC1 DA converter Hi Will, I too have gotten a genuine Mainsstream in here after experiencing the fakes. I think I was unaware in our prior communications that you also used a Theta DSPro Basic IIIa DAC. So far I have experimented with the Mainsstream feeding my PL... | |
| API Power Wedge 114. Current Limiting? Hello Rsa, I have a PW 116 Ultra, and previously used a first-gen 116 (non-Ultra). IMO, these conditioners are best employed for line-level gear, not high-power amps. The amp outlets (unlike the source/preamp outlets) do not use isolation transfor... | |
| Revisiting the Kimber KCAG Hi Bombaywalla, I haven't read or posted much in a long time. The vdH carbon cables don't seem to get a lot of "run" anymore, they've been around a long time, and you know how that game goes. But they're still a totally unique product, and deserve... | |
| The Clever Little Sharp It could have been shut down simply because it had run its course, or because the moderator felt there was a risk of engendering bad blood if it kept going (don't know that I agree, but I'm as happy to move on regardless). It wasn't deleted, just ... |