zd542
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| Best Option To Liquidate CD Collection "These old self-righteous delusive people speaking out here have no life and need something to believe in no matter howretarded their automatonophobiatic puppet strings are pulled."And you're getting all this from reading and posting opinions in t... | |
| Is It Ironic? "However, many on here will skewer a fist or second time poster for asking questions that for many of us find quite rudimentary and will give a sarcastic response and follow it up with "let your ears decide".How do you know that they are being sar... | |
| Is It Ironic? "08-22-14: Chrshanl37What's Ironic is when a newbie asks for an opninon on starting a system and then gets chastised by senior members on here telling them to go listen to gear and let your ears decide and then said members go post and often get i... | |
| advice needed, antique vs modern tech "My amp is an ancient Carver TMF-25. still working fine. What really bothers me is the high background "hiss" noise level. I am pretty sure it's amp causing this and below are my options."Try lowering the gain on whatever input you have your sourc... | |
| Linn Kairn MC input muddy Try your phono preamp on its MM setting instead of MC. Its OK to do this, you won't hurt anything. There's a good chance that may fix your problem. | |
| Is It Ironic? "08-21-14: Jmcgrogan2 08-20-14: Zd542 Look at it from another angle. If you took a well produced 50 year old record and played it on high quality equipment from that period, and then put the same record on modern equipment of the same quality, cha... | |
| Shotgun connection "I bought OEM shot gunned Nordost Freys this way: e.g. both "+"s rolled together and terminated with a single spade. I would not step out of this configuration IMO."As long as your amp doesn't have 2 speaker terminals for each channel, that's the ... | |
| Absorption panels on ceiling..what to expect? If you took some heavy blankets, or something similar, and tacked them to your ceiling, it may give some indication as to what you can expect. If it turns out to be too much, another option would be to texture your ceiling. But that's only if you ... | |
| Best Option To Liquidate CD Collection Its probably worth noting that the people record companies are going after are file sharers. In order to win a law suit, you need to show damages. So, if a person has a few burned CD's that fit the definition of illegal, the damage is very small. ... | |
| Is It Ironic? "Second, many of the reference recordings used to judge the improvement in equipment are 50 years old. I find that ironic. Finally, the recording equipment used to make the reference recordings was retired as obsolete by 1970. Commercial considera... | |
| moving on from Emotiva UMC-200 pre/processor "08-20-14: HazyjZd542-Not worth my time or anyone else's to write here under "false pretenses". Not even sure what you mean by that, and no wish or need to argue and restate what's already been written."If you want to find out what I mean, read yo... | |
| Pass x250.8 vs Boulder 850 vs Spectral DMA250 "For the rest I agree with you, note that MIT and Spectral is often used in Italy because the dealer is the same ;-) But now we are OT..."It probably goes a step further. Spectral usually makes the dealer use MIT or they won't be allowed to sell t... | |
| Is It Ironic? "08-20-14: MapmanNice analogy Viridian!Chances are the OLDER photograph would be less resolved and the harder of the two to discern information from accordingly and would up the ante in terms of what is needed to get good results."I'm not sure tha... | |
| 12 volt trigger turns off amp "When I go to plug in a 1/8" cable to the trigger of the amp, the amp turns off. When I take the cable out, the amp switches back on."Does the trigger work after you plug it in? If not, take the batteries out of the remote and then try it.This is ... | |
| Is It Ironic? "What I find ironic is that much of the music used to ascertain the improvements in equipment was recorded fifty years ago. The touchstone recordings by RCA, Mercury, Columbia, Decca and Blue Note were made with equipment that was being retired as... |