elizabeth
Responses from elizabeth
| Starting a high-end audio shop... Am I crazy? Your desire to 'throw money out the window' is equal to your desire to burn piles of cash on a useless fantasy.Sorry, but nearly ALL the stores I know of that are 'bricks and mortar' are either going bankrupt, or are nearly doing so.Only the reall... | |
| A turntable around $250? any Dual would serve fine.No more than $50 should do.Get a $100 cart for it.Shure or Ortofon | |
| Shipping vinyl in the summer heat The LP I won on eBay shipped from Arizona in the Summer arrived totally melted.I learned my lesson. Skip buying LPs in the Summer. | |
| which power conditioner unit? Gossip says Monster Cable is changing it's lineup soon.Plenty of dumping of Monster hi-end conditioners going on.I could have gotten a 7000 for $600 new, or a voltage thingy for $800. The whisper is they are being hammered by better sounding and c... | |
| Banana to spade adapters The easiest to use are the Monster X-terminators.They cost $29. a pair new, and will last forever.I have some 'old style' (with a screw inset instead of a thumbscrew) and have used them in different ways for over 20 years and STILL use them. (I ow... | |
| Car subwoofers for home sub use: Whynot? why? The crossover is no problem, as it is done in the Denon 4806 receiver... subwoofer preamp level out.The box will definitely be a sealed box, no ports or vents, for smoother response.I can calculate what the box size should be.I just sort of cannot... | |
| New Denon 5910 for $1799? Yeah, they are sold out.I bet the employees bought the last two Saturday at close.I was there ten minutes before sale close and they were there...They have two 3910 for $999. in the garage room at Flanners.One silver in a box, the other black.I be... | |
| Rega Planet - Transport Problems? Normally the puck has a 'bit' of play.it can move up and down in it's holder and ?? about a mm of freeplay each side.The puck is stabilized by magneticly grabbing through the CD to the motor below the CD.For some reason the magnets have failed.You... | |
| New Denon 5910 for $1799? This dealer is in Southeastern Wisconsin. They had a "warehouse sale" last Saturday (June 10, 2006) and the selling price at that sale was at the start of the day $1,500. for new in box DVD5910's they had FOUR at that price.By the end of the day t... | |
| Grrr... PC changes sound: Denon 4806 Receiver... noooooo.....Anytime a chunk of wire costs more than my car...(I am pretty firmly in the "under $100 PC, under $200 interconnect, under $300 speaker cable camp) | |
| Remastered DVD in HD That is the question!!!The bit-rate for the various possible picture quality levels, even in a regular DVD is hard to know.The regular DVD standard allows a LOT of variables in the picture quality via different bit rates, etcaka "SUPERBIT" release... | |
| Which SACD for little $$$ Denon DVD-2910plays 'em all..I still have one, even though I just bought a Denon DVD-5910I just bought the 2910 about ten months ago, but the deal on the 5910 ($1,800. new locally) was too good to pass up.(especially as I think the 'new' formats B... | |
| Denon DVD-5910 or the new Arcam DVD137? Well, I just got the Denon DVD-5910 for $1,800. new, from a local certified Denon dealer.They had 5 of them and no buyers....(everyone seemed to be waiting for the 'new' formats)(8^) | |
| Receiver shutting down during high loads If this is a new problem, I would 'guess' at a capacitor or several are damaged from age.Replacing all the 'big' caps in it would do the job of making it as good as new.(under $100, and if you can do it yourself solder decently, under $35.)Nearly ... | |
| Digital Cable Tuner - Can I buy and use my own?? For COAX CABLE delivery, the answer is never. You cannot use your own box.If satellite delivery, yes, usually you can own your own box.If via optical cable delivery, I do not know. |