forrestc
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| VPI HW-19 Upgrade question SAMA or SDS? Thank you, thank you, thank you all for the great information. I've sure learned a lot from this thread. | |
| Threshold and Magnepan An SA/3 will be more than adequate. MMGs don't take much at all especially in a small room. | |
| How Many Turntables Have You Owned Not counting the Close-n-Play the folks bought for us when we were kids, I count about six.1973 - BSR something-another with a Pickering cartridge.1975 - An original AR turntable with a Shure cartridge bought from Dixie Hi-Fi (now Circuit City).19... | |
| Opinions On Mark Levinson No. 36 DAC Repair I had my 36 repaired by Levinson repair guys at Harmon. You *will* pay within about $50 of the "it won't cost anymore than $XXX.XX no matter what's wrong with it" price. Mine turned out to just have a few bad electrolytic caps due to age in one an... | |
| Turntable lamp suggestions? I'm using a AA-battery powered LED gooseneck lamp that I bought at Harbor Freight Tools for about $25. It was marketed as a small workbench lamp for close work, but you can find the same thing at Lowes marketed as a BBQ grill lamp. What's nice bes... | |
| Best and Worst Rock Concert Moments I'm not sure if it was the best or the worst, but I was one of the 32000 people who bought a $12, three-day-event ticket to Stompin' 76 in the rural hills of southern Virginia. The only problem was that 150k to 200k people actually attended! The y... | |
| Motorola transistors . . . but you probabaly won't hear any big difference by changing output devices from one revision to another. The main thing is to make sure that the bias is correctly. | |
| Motorola transistors . . . and actually newer, better, and more closely matched out of the box than the 15022/15023 is the ON Semi MJ21195 (PNP) and MJ21196 (NPN). Currently, I'm in the middle of totally rebuilding a Threshold Stasis 2 using these. Lot's of good info ... | |
| Black Gates - Standard vs FK/Non-Polars Jov, after reading over this old thread again, one thing occurred to me that may, or may not, be the cause of your less than good results after replacing the electrolytic caps with Black Gate Standards in you Threshold SL-10. Older Threshold produ... | |
| whats wrong with ebay? The best thing to do to prevent that sort of thing is use eBay's buyer filter when you create the listing where you can prevent buyers with excessive negatives from bidding at all. | |
| Dissapointed buyer, item malfunctions experience? I had the same situation happen to me but I was the buyer. If I had to do it all over again, I would have promptly shipped the unit back to the seller for a refund and allow the seller to arrange for the repairs to be made, as per Audiogon buyer/s... | |
| Vacation Home System Here is my budget system in our second home at the lake:Magnepan MMG (found at Goodwill in mint condion for $35 - pure luck)NAD 80w/ch Receiver from the 1980s (eBay for $120)Rotel RCD970 CD player (eBay)Cables? The ones that I don't use anymore on... | |
| May Day May Day I don't remember the the brand, the folks bought me and my little sister a record player and we played the crap out of a bunch of early '60s kid's records. I also remember, opening the thing up while it was plugged-in and getting my fingers burned... | |
| good old tuners going obsolete Digital-only OTA braodcasts would be tough one for the radio stations to swallow since just about 95% of their listeners listen while driving. Dead silence wouldn't cut it for most drivers, and buying and retro-fitting digital receivers to million... | |
| How do you pay? Why? Also, I much as I dislike PayPal fees, I still prefer PalPal for the reasons stated above by Swampwalker. When I sell something, I don't put the " . . . add 3% for PayPal" in my ads. In fact, I'll even go as far as to state, "No fee for PayPal". T... |