marakanetz
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| Cleaning horns on Avantgarde speakers? Spray Windex on cloth and wipe. Will work the best of above said. | |
| Converting Power Cords into Speaker Cables? ... mad desire to experiment on something not worth wasting time for. You can go through the 'cooking' recipes of making a speaker cable buying simply high quality bulk wire(that could be used in power cords) and assembling/terminating it.Spending... | |
| Getting back into analog What TT setup would you plan to build before you decide on preamp?I prefer a full function preamp since it would save an extra wire run and rack space. | |
| I need a turntable, only have $450 to spare... I'd agree to SL1200. Had P3 and hated the fact that I couldn't adjust VTA. That limits the choice of a good cartridges. SL1200 isn't noisy at all despite being DD. As to your phono, it might be an interesting 'instrument' to me. How's headphone ou... | |
| Noob problems guys I also suggest to check if the speakers are too close to your turntable as well. | |
| Stax Driver Comparison Not sure of 120dB SNR, seems to be unrealistic in any ways especially in tube equipment, but going from AC to DC heater supplies does improve SNR. As to comparing SNR vs. solid state driver, SS wins. What you gain with tubes is holography, speed a... | |
| I need a turntable, only have $450 to spare... Pal,you've got a nice piece of digital set up. To match it with turntable with no dissapointment, you should probably stretch for more budget plus decent phonostage too. | |
| Speaker upgrade help? Don't know about DefTech but NHT to my taste is complete decline from the real music neither electronic nor acoustic. 803's or any B&W line would mostly need the help of sub. They're most defined in midrange and upper detail. Positively 803's ... | |
| grilles on or off the speakers?? Almost the same thing with woman, mostly for aesthetic reasons:-) | |
| best cd player for 300-500 bux One more thing to check before making hearing or any kind of failure conclusions:CDs tend to degrade with the age. Re-recording CD onto the CDR might solve the issue. You will also need to increase the recording level by few db if the software all... | |
| best cd player for 300-500 bux So far used Alesis Master Link ML9600 for near $500 will get you one of the best red book CD playback + recording and possibility of the superior CD24 format you can get the benefits from and finally great headphone output capable to deliver 180mw... | |
| DAC instead of Pre-amp passive preamps or unity gain preamps(such as McCormack TLC) can connect many sources with the same output or even better. | |
| New caps for preamp? If the amp was always working for all these years than most likely you'll need to worry. Otherwise I would check/recap the amp especially electrolytic caps. They're most-likely dry and need to be checked with either cap tester or C-meter for the s... | |
| Vinyl to PC Just Got Masterlink.The unit is GR8, very easy to use and does a good job recording onto the HD, creating playlists. It sounds great from the HD but not so great from the CD-tray.Tx for the input! | |
| To turn off or not to turn off That is to be correct and I even more verified that SS equipment idles at very low power and need not to be turned off unless there's threats from power surges. Tube equipment is the best to turn off since the worm-up time is much faster than with... |