marakanetz
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| What's up with ads for $70,000 speakers selling yeah... and have 9mm handy if you sell stuff for cash | |
| Vintage Power Amp vs new age power amp you are right. you should try and it's in general good investment in case if you don't like it. my experience with restoring vintage units is more positive than negative compared to the modern units that either priced the same or even substantiall... | |
| A mystery for you tech gurus out there Not mine either Liz, If you still havin' issues you can refer to my previous post. Practice makes things perfect just like in music. | |
| A mystery for you tech gurus out there Zydo, same exercise you can repeat with receiver or whatever the suspected component is. sometimes swapping fancy wires to cheap wires also eliminate problem. it's risk free just to purchase and return within month to Best Buy. | |
| A mystery for you tech gurus out there Liz I simply directed to purchase with return to try. It's not a crime cuz you can return item to Best Buy for reason or no reason within the month of purchase. Hey even if you accidentally fried one or two of them with bad amp, No problem as long... | |
| Vintage Power Amp vs new age power amp Johnyb53, Of course I can. It can be some old Mac for less than half of price to purchase and restore, Accuphase, Bryston or Classe of the same vintage...I don't think that Rogue is any better built than above mentioned ever nowdays or past. I don... | |
| Sub Woofer Hum... This One Puzzles Me It's been quite strange to this subwoofer since 2wq has 47kOhms input impedance. Don't know about 2w though which may differ.Some of the 'directional' interconnects have their shield disconnected from the negative terminal so that's why I've sugge... | |
| A mystery for you tech gurus out there 12 years old is enough for studio v60 to be old.Go to Best Buy and get pair of new cheap polks and play them for couple of weeks. They have one month return policy anyways.Your components including turntable placed properly and should not create i... | |
| Sub Woofer Hum... This One Puzzles Me try using cheap interconnects such as radioShack and see if problem's still there. | |
| A mystery for you tech gurus out there One last one:7) How old are your speakers? | |
| How many still listen to CD's daily. every week day in the office via headphone rig. | |
| Sub Woofer Hum... This One Puzzles Me very simple. the amp output resistance is too high to the input of sub. in this case you should piggy-back your mains. | |
| Turntables with warm/smooth mids and highs Timo, If you look at Nottingham, Wilson Full Circle or Michell turntables and purchase one of them you will have the best analogue investment coz they sound natural even with budget cartridges. I kept Rega P3 for only 3mo-s and than traded in for ... | |
| Calrad SA-30B - need schematic. Start working on swapping tubes first, than inspect/replace visually all DC caps for bubbling(an electrolytic cap tester might be handy to you), leaks, dark burning spots, resolder joints with fresh solder and maybe you won't need any schematic. H... | |
| When to repair or replace speakers? cones more likely are OK especially if OK visually. voice coils might be under jeopardy. when your amp fries you'd definitely know or you can try to find matching complete drivers. |