czarivey
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| Can an IEC socket be too short? Thanks for posting another valid reason not to use custom aftermarket powercords for phools ta loin!! | |
| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? @bigtwin DEFINITELY Jimmy Smith/Harvey Mason supposed to be bombastic! | |
| Top turntables under $2k Thorens TD125. All original also great. | |
| Audiogon Retail Price listings are not accurate Freedom of market will take care of that don't worry | |
| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? Fitting category of pop band to Beatles is simple because they are pop somewhere above 90% of their career. We can call it pop-rock as well that will match even better. There are bands that very hard to fit into any category, but the're obscure a... | |
| Organizing music files - what tools to use Many music player apps do that for ya | |
| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? Beatles isn't a rock band. It's pure pop. Calling it rock is delusional. | |
| Seriously though, maybe the best tweak is exercise? TBH, my listening room in the basement equipped with the workout bench right in the sweet spot. To listen without workout activities I simply fold my workbench and move the rolling chair instead. | |
| How to test speaker cables by ChatGPT What chatGPT did is dropped the word Audiophile leaving the rest the same. After all cables should NOT by ANY possible means bring ANY differences. The more neutral-the better. | |
| Memory foam as bass treatment? Maan, I noted that memory foam can be used for just about anything except the mattress. It is very uncomfortable -- strip it and use it for whatever! | |
| Baffling Tube Preamp Problem--Rhythmic Thumping after Tube Replacement If B supply resistor blows, that huge voltage will be applied at bias cap and destroy it. It acts like circuit protection in a such weird way that cap will go bad as well. Upon visual you will see that cap bubbled, but B supply resistor is the fir... | |
| Let's share key moments in our musical lives 1. When I was 5, I found phonograph trophy from WW2 and dialed the spring to play it and it played for a while, than heard loud pop inside the box and playing stopped. The spring snapped out. I try to get inside the box and the spring popped out s... | |
| Favorite genres for fun listening My favorites for fun 1. Electronic Ambient, Dub, Downbeat, Acid, Trip-Hop and instrumental Hip-Hop. 2. Afro-Cuban-Latin Salsa, Calypso, Tresero | |
| Baffling Tube Preamp Problem--Rhythmic Thumping after Tube Replacement @oddiofyl they don't mind providing schematics of the amps. That's how I fixed mine when I had it. After fixing and observing unacceptable built quality, I've decided to sell my MB100. | |
| Baffling Tube Preamp Problem--Rhythmic Thumping after Tube Replacement I've fixed Manley. They have very primitive bias circuits without much of protection. Extremely poor design for all of his units including the BIG ones. So far the issue seems like tubes and caps going away in the power amp, not preamp. |