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| Noobie Question on speaker cable for my system Check out what the pro recording engineers often use: Canare StarQuad. Comes in two gauges (14 and 11), and is a ridiculous bargain for HT. | |
| Introduction and classic equipment Welcome back. Lots of us phoenixes abound.... Contact cleaner sprays work well, btw. | |
| Electrocompaniet EMC II CD Player Jm88...haven't heard the BAT, but the vocals in my XLR'd EMC-1 are clearly rendered and spookily real. Tubes do this well, too, of course, but sometimes via a mid-band spectral "bump". The power supplies' diodes mod clearly brought the stage forwa... | |
| Small floorstander recommendations Spendor has just replaced the S6 with the smaller S5, at $1400. You can probably steal a vestigial pair of S6s for under $1k.... | |
| EMC-1 Owners Spider Alert $265 is still too high! | |
| Electrocompaniet EMC II CD Player On second thought I fear that the above-mentioned offers could be cons, as a couple of these emails stated that the seller was a "dealer" represented in many countries, etc., but happened to be in England at the time, blah blah blah, again all in ... | |
| Electrocompaniet EMC II CD Player Hi guys. Here's a weird corrolary. A Dane end-user posted his seemingly-older (it's hard to tell from the bad English) 240v EMC-1 on eBay, now sitting at $2225. I had thrown out a silly low bid early in the week just to track it automatically (cal... | |
| How do I replace an outlet? Great post, Elizabeth! I also routinely replace dupes live, even showing my 16yr old daughter while doing it. Yet I remember as a kid I was fixing an old transformerless 5-tuber in the basement, poking around live with my requisite one-hand-behind... | |
| Dedicated circuit? And if it's really OLD and exercised by high-current use the junky insulation is probably of lower dielectric involvement, so it'll sound cleaner up top than a NEW Romex line, too! | |
| Do It Yourself Speakers After building a run of nice two-ways in the early 90s I decided to build a three-way of higher performance. After LOTS of work I had ONE mono prototype (8" Peerless +5+0.75" SEAS) voiced really well. After learning that subtle crossover value shi... | |
| Where to start with room acoustics Don't fear that you have to buy lots of truly ugly hardware to properly dampen a room, either. My 14x24-30x8 with lots of openings still sounds quite properly "dead" because of wall-to-wall, stuffed sofa (L) and big chair (R), each topped with a p... | |
| integrated suggestions Second the UNICO. Beyooteeful, too! | |
| Anyone see or hear the new NAD T763 receiver? My two-year old T752 runs cool.... | |
| Any recommendation for a modern FM tuner Hey, an MD100 is only $1k used/discounted. As a kid I was a HAM, and last year bought a vintage Hallicrafters "high end for its 1955 era" receiver, and finally delight in having SIX switchable IF window widths! Keeps Radio Rwanda et al from being ... | |
| Can someone explain how power cords help if... Yes, connectIONS are important, but connector cost is often NOT correllated with performance! I use an affordable all-black Leviton AC male, for example, that outperforms its, and other, 5266's simply by the ABSENCE of the unnecessary cheap-dielec... |