zaikesman
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| Tuner choices? Help me please When I got my tuner, I wanted AM capability with plenty of presets plus control flexibility and of course good FM sound. I settled on an Audiolab 8000T and haven't regretted the choice, but I know what Finsfan means about wanting a remote control.... | |
| What to add to my system for best sound? I have to take exception to Lafish's statement on the alleged limitations of tubed amplifiers: "...good for simple music like vocal. No good for pop music." C'mon, now - this is ridiculous as a blanket assertion, and easily disproved if you drop b... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Umm...shouldn't that be a twelve-bar blues? Yours sound about seven bars short of a blues... ;^) | |
| Buying and Selling of feedback Good addendum, SW - this sort of provision had occurred to me when pondering the idea before, but I forgot to include something about it my post. Anyone perusing a member's feedback, who cared to crosscheck the feedback that member had left for ot... | |
| Beating a dead horse - Pre with Pass-Thru I own a Levinson 380S. It (and similar Levinson models) features both two sets of balanced inputs (it is a true internally-balanced design) plus the ability to assign any input as a passthrough (note that this is not a totally passive direct mode,... | |
| Buying and Selling of feedback [I know the following doesn't respond to the exact question asked, but it's tangentially germane...]The feedback system as presently implemented, both here and on ebay, is too intrinsically susceptible to pressure and manipulation to be of much us... | |
| Help..................... I am a little worried. Is the noise in one channel or both? The most common causes of intermittent noise, a bad tube or a bad connection, are often channel-specific. If the noise is in both channels, then look at any small-signal tubes shared by both channels. If the ci... | |
| I am on the Jazz wagon for awhile,,,or until broke Tommy Tedesco is one of the most-recorded Hollywood studio guitarists. I have never heard his work as a leader.Mingus Ah Um is a stone classic and one of his best. When I was considerably younger, I was stunned to realize that the theme music of t... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Hey Sean: While you were doing that, my '60's hollow-bodied Vox 'Bill Wyman' bass was running through an equally old flip-top Ampeg Porta-Flex with one 15", and I'm guessing about 40 all-tube watts. No, I couldn't shake any foundations, but it *di... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Nrchy, I (and I'm sure many others) had an experience similar to yours. Several years ago, I bought an amp (which shall remain nameless for this discussion) used from a local guy. I auditioned it at his house and was satisfied, but when I got it h... | |
| A personal challenge As someone who has never so much as taken a single puff in his life, nor ever suffered an addiction of any kind, all I can add is my sincerest encouragement to those who are quitting, and my best wishes for those fighting disease.It always depress... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? I hear differences between PC's on most of my components, some more than others. Do I think these differences would be revealed in a blind test? Could be that they wouldn't: I personally am of the opinion that blind testing is a very good way to *... | |
| Is the Berning ZH270 revalatory? Noble110: I have actually never thought there were "many" shills around here, just a few possibles/probables (not talking about this thread now, for come-lately's - see above), but who knows, you may have a clearer assessment than I seem to. | |
| Different sound between two channels To obtain a true full-spectrum mono (summed) signal from stereo disks, you could also insert mated 2-female-to-1-male and 1-female-to-2-male Y-connectors in the line between source and preamp, or between preamp and amp. I still don't like the Pass... | |
| Different sound between two channels A slightly different (or even more than slightly different) sound from each speaker is normal, in the sense that each speaker's immediate acoustic environment is distinctly unique, despite all the speakers being set up in the same room, due to the... |