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| Has Audiogon Been Hacked? jeffdill2,I repeat what I wrote above: "I own several domains with thousands of email accounts (all forwarded). So for each company/organization with which I have a relationship, I create a unique email address. That way, I know who Is selling my ... | |
| Has Audiogon Been Hacked? Thank you, sarahkendall.I am a bit confused. How did Audiogon "take[] down this recent phishing scam?" It was an email, not a post. Did you manage to get the Spanish site it linked to taken down?Of bigger concern is how did the phishers get Audiog... | |
| Has Audiogon Been Hacked? I will confess that I was using Safari on iPad (though up to date) when I received the security certificate errors; trying it now on Chrome on Windows 10, I receive none.What really concerns me is this: Typically these types of phishing emails are... | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? I drive a Bentley Continental GTC (with factory NAIM audio) as my daily driver.I have no present intention to replace it.My dream (second) car is a Pegaso Z102 Saoutchik:http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/pegaso-z-102-b-saoutchik-coupe-1954.308... | |
| Audio Research M100 Thumping Everything appears to be working correctly now. My guy had to replace caps which had the wrong ones installed, replace tubes which were the wrong tubes, re-solder throughout, re-wire the volume control which had been hacked, and do some rewiring o... | |
| Audio Research M100 Thumping Thanks. I gave up and took it to a "guy." He is finding all kinds of problems, mostly poor workmanship by prior repair attempts. The person who owned it before me spent $1,000 on shoddy work. And it was not local, so he paid shipping too. I befudd... | |
| Audio Research M100 Thumping Is there an easy way to test for a bad Hexfred? | |
| Audio Research M100 Thumping Thank you for the reply.The amps do not motorboat with the preamp turned off. Preamp is from the 80s, but in 2010, the tube sockets, all filter and coupling caps, all tubes, and the power supply (upgraded to Hexfred) were all replaced. With my pre... | |
| Audio Research M100 Thumping After considerable effort on the amps, including all tubes and caps, I think the problem is actually my conrad-johnson PV11 preamp. Once it gets warm, after about one to two hours, the heartbeat begins, now in both channels, volume independent (an... | |
| Audio Research M100 Thumping I exchanged emails with Kalvin. He suggested switching out the output tubes and all of the fuses and running them for a while. I did that, and about five hours in, they really sound fantastic and seem to have no issues. I think these amps sound be... | |
| Best 5 engineered rock albums? Whatever you may think of the music, I think the Hole Celebrity Skin album is fantastically engineered.For something completely different, Alan Parson's Project, I Robot. As the guy who did so many other albums, such as Pink Floyd, his own is bril... | |
| Audio Research M100 Thumping Thanks for the good advice. Anyone know of an authorized ARC tech in Portland, OR?This morning I went to test if the tube switch had worked, and it blew a fuse. I switched the fuse from the other amp, and the amp seemed fine. Not sure why it blew ... | |
| Audio Research M100 Thumping conrad-johnson pv11 pre-ampPSB Imagine T TowersMcIntosh MR67 TunerDual CS508The problem followed the amp. I did notice the output tubes were a mixture of 6550s and KT88s. I replaced them all with a different set of 6550s which I knew worked and re... | |
| What music do you use to assess your system? I like to use the opening of the vinyl LP Genesis, A Trick of the Tale. It has a nice, broad range of notes. Bad, digital listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJIVuinJlsUB. | |
| Svetlana v. Genalex KT88 Tubes? Thanks for all the responses.Elevick, "blow" may be a poor choice of words -- more like "fail" or "short." Definitely normal; the manual even reads:"If an output tube shorts, this circuit will turn off the amplifiers main power supply by tripping... |