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| new to phono.. Can I hook one up to my preamp? Madison, you will need a phono preamp that will connect between your turntable and the line level input of your preamp. The function of the phono preamp is to amplify the small voltage of the phono cartridge to line level and to provide the equali... | |
| Why hasn't America discovered the Fertin sound yet The gentleman has initiated six posts, three have the word "Fertin" in the title. By the way, if they will be kind enough to change the name, for the U.S. market, to Aertin, they will have an anagram for "tin ear". Cool huh? Hey I havn't been in m... | |
| If You Like Bill Evans, You'll like .... Okay, time for a little different perspective. Much as I like LeFaro's playing, Eddie Gomez playing on "Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival", floors me like no other. The sympathy that these players have for one another never fails to touch m... | |
| Worst Name for A Piece of Equipment In the 1970s, Infinity made a series of very inexpensive speakers with very large margins that were only carried in major hi-fi chains they were called POS-1, POS-2, etc. The letters were an acronym for "piece of s**t". Actually, it is hardly the ... | |
| How long does it take for transformer smell to go The smell usually dissipates right after your house burns down. | |
| If You Like Bill Evans, You'll like .... If you like Diana Krall, you will probably like Pat Barber, Holly Cole and Jane Monheit, so there will be no hope for you in this world. | |
| Vintage tube preamps: CJ or ARC? Just to add to your list, I really like the, somewhat rare, Musical Reference RM-5, and once in a while, a Berning TF-10 shows up, which is a hybrid, but with ten tubes it has more tubes than anything else mentioned. Both companies still in busine... | |
| Power cord for my Portal Panache? Totally off subject. I am receiving my Panache this week. How do you like yours? Have you compared it to any other amps? Thanks. Marty | |
| Threshold S/500 II power cord suggestions? Wow, from your description of the sound, it almost seems that your amp is unstable and going into ringing. You may just want to look at some simple waveforms on a scope, if you have any friends that have one, to see if it is misbehaving. The Thres... | |
| How can I learn how to fix equipment Radio Shack makes some very nice experimentation kits that consist of a breadboard and instructions to make some basic circuits like a light sensitive bell. You can remove the components and reconfigure them to make a few different things. There i... | |
| Replace Stylus or both Cart. & Stylus?? You should also download the free alignment protractor from the vinyl engine, so that you can get your cartridge correctly positioned in the headshell. This may very well be the cause of the changes that you note. There will be nothing at all wron... | |
| Threshold S/500 II power cord suggestions? How reasonable is reasonable? If you are handy with an iron, you may want to try one of the kits from Chris VenHaus at VenHaus audio, Ernie Menier (plug ernie into the Audiogon search feature) or cryoparts. | |
| sealed 3-ways The Vandersteen 2ce is a sealed box, but neither an infinite baffle, nor an acoustic suspension design. They use a passive radiator which makes the alignment the same as a bass reflex design with the resistance of the passive radiator just replaci... | |
| Spanish Guitar music I am a big fan of the Romeros, but for something completely - and I mean completely - different, try a band called Carmen, only one album to their credit, on ABC/Dunhill "Fandangos in Space", probably the only flamenco rock outfit ever. Real fun, ... | |
| Overpriced Tube Amps Ya know, I was just down at the grocery store buyin' a nice box of Carlo Rossi rose. It gets the missis in the mood, ya know? There was some moron right next to me pickin' out some Chateau Effete something or other, from 1954, he said it was "new ... |