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| Small gauge ground wire, is it OK? Where`d you get this 1/2 brained idea?[Porziob] http://www.audio-magic.com/Prod-Sorcerer4D.html You would be surprised how many cable companies out there are selling home made power cords, cables, that are not UL listed. Making your own is one t... | |
| Surge in Electric Bill >>"Will show my wife, as she is the bookkeeper in this family.Maybe she'll let me keep playing my music..."<<>>>>>>>>>>>>LOL, You could always install a coin operated timer on the power feed to your ... | |
| Leviton Hospital grade 20 amp outlets? If you are speaking of the contacts of the Leviton 8300 Hosp grade receptacle, the standard 8300 Hosp grade recept is unplated brass.If you are speaking of the supporting strap, yoke, I am not aware of any Leviton Hosp grade recept that has a stra... | |
| Surge in Electric Bill Take a look at your power bill and see what your total khw (kilowatt hour) useage was for the month with the Cary SLI-80 used. Compare the bill with the month before, or a couple of months before. Also check the number of days in the billing cycle... | |
| Mint Condition, Doesn't Anyone Know What It Means Like beauty, it is in the eyes of the beholder....There can be guidelines for the term mint, but in the end the word mint is not definitive......Imo the word mint should be defined by the parties involved. In other words the buyer and the seller.Jim | |
| Soldering cable ends for AC terminations >>"and unaffected by nearby nuclear explosions, where solder would be melted by X-rays."<<[Eldartford]>>>>>>>Eldartford, is it true that the Russians used vacuum tubes in their military equipment instead of transis... | |
| Soldering cable ends for AC terminations Eldartford, I agree with your post 100%. The method you describe was used in TVs for years, and found in some audio equipment as well.As you know the old tube audio gear of the pre circuit board, the wire was held securely around a post or through... | |
| Soldering cable ends for AC terminations >>"Solder is bad period"<< [Mapleleafs3]>>>>>>>>>>>>Name me an electronic component out there that is not full of it! Solder that is.....Solder is the electrical bonding agent that holds all the elec... | |
| preamp tube hiss from my SF Line 1 Snipes, curiosity killed the cat!! How about an update.....Jim | |
| Music volume? What about your sound level? Here is a good read, a little dated though....http://www.anstendig.org/Impairment.htmlJim | |
| preamp tube hiss from my SF Line 1 >>"Jea48: You wrote: "If you put back in the three tubes you had pulled before the hiss, and you still have it, then I think that eliminates the tubes from the equations." I'm not following you. If I put the same tubes back in and the hiss i... | |
| preamp tube hiss from my SF Line 1 Just grabbing at straws here, but is there a chance you may have a cold solder joint on one of the tube socket terminals caused when changing out the tubes? If you put back in the three tubes you had pulled before the hiss, and you still have it, ... | |
| Tube testers for 6922, 12ax7, etc, etc, >>"I would like to spend around $200 for a simple to use tester."<<>>>>>>>>>>Sometimes you can pick up a B&K 707 for around $200 on Ebay.Also the B&K 606 is a nice little tube tester. Easy to use a... | |
| What should be the terms between buyer and seller >>"This deal would be for speakers over 6K. "<< >>"Two packages at 200 lbs each'<<>>"He will accept only personal check or money order."<< >>>>>>>>>>>You have more guts than I d... | |
| Audio Tweak gone bad...similar experiences? Bearotti,1982, 1982, if I remember here in the USA we were in the mist of a recession. Of course you would of been to young to remember. Inflation was starting to raise it's ugly head, commodity prices were soaring. Copper prices were soaring as w... |