bmbmzig
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| Best concert you've attended I’ve seen a lot of great bands but best would have to be Tower Of Power at the University of Texas Summer Jazz Fest around 2014. Phenomenal performance!! Ranking right up there more recently, Doobies, Santana and Earth Wind and Fire. | |
| Why we (often) upgrade the wrong things (first) and ignore the important things I find what he is saying to be accurate. For about 20 years prior to retirement, I installed acoustical treatment into various venues (lecture halls, class rooms, meeting spaces, churches, gymnasiums, auditoriums, etc.), In most cases it was to ta... | |
| Another "kinda-newbie" head scratcher Does the volume control affect the loudness of the noise. If so, you may have defective components in the phono stage of the preamp. | |
| FedEx shipping damage Unfortunately, the double insurance won't do you any good because they will only pay for the actual loss, and you will have to produce a receipt to file the claim. I have a lot of experience with UPS, not very much with FedEx. UPS can be hit and... | |
| Question about contacting Ayre Acoustics I had a similar experience. I needed a preamp repaired. I called, I emailed, finally made connection. The timeliness of their communication is horrible at best. Once I got through, they were very nice people to work with, but getting them to resp... | |
| New Home Owner - looking for advice If you are going to use the existing speakers, you will want to check and see if they are 8 ohm, or if they have 70 or 100 volt transformers on them, which is not uncommon in an installation like this. If so, you will either need to replaced the s... | |
| Outdoor FM Antenna I have a Channel Master FM antenna mounted on a tower at 45'. When you start talking about stations 80 miles away, good luck. A lot depends on if it is a high power station or not. It is my understanding that many years ago, the FCC (in order to c... | |
| Selling on ebay vs Audigon In the last two years, I sold quite a bit of hgher-end equipment for the window of a friend who passed away. I used both E-Bay and AG. I sold about 70% of the stuff on AG, and the other 30% on E-Bay. I didn't experience any of the "dishonesty you... | |
| Poor FM Reception Agreed that the outdoor antenna is the answer to you problems. You will want to try the outdoor antenna with and without the amplifier. If you are that close to the transmitter, the amp may overload (not causing damage), the front end of the tune... | |
| Has anyone sold over $35k worth of equipment over the net? How do you protect yourself? This past May my wife and I took a long road trip vacation. We were tipping wait staff with cash and abut half way through the trip I was low on ones, five and tens, so I stopped in a bank to break a couple of twenties. Even with the circumstance... | |
| lightning storm As a retire audio tech, I saw my share of lighting damage over the years. Unplugging is the ONLY way to totally protect your equipment, and that includes internet cable and any type antenna cables. Those also create a path to ground, and if connec... | |
| ??? Are Manufacturers Killing Our Hobby ??? I’ve not taken the time to do research to back this up, but as someone who worked in hi-fi stores in my younger days, there were a lot more brands back in the 70-80’s. It was a combination of manufactures and consumers that killed a lot of the mid... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? The one thing that I find interesting is it is all about spec’s (measurements). He talks about frequency response, impedance, etc, which are indeed important, but I have found spec’s don’t tell the whole story and you have to use your ears to make... | |
| Shipping costs- WTF Shipping prices got out of control before the Pandemic, and then after the Pandemic, they went nuts. I was a store owner and we had a UPS account with daily pick ups and deliveries. The thing that killed me was, every day when you opened up the so... | |
| Room Treatment I worked for a company that did commercial acoustical treatment. Panels are sound absorption material that mount against a wall (i.e. one surface covered). Baffles are suspended and all sides ave active in sound absorption. Diffuser are to spread ... |