eurorack
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| My experience with The Music Room @dbt The player was DOA. It never worked at all. The wording of the condition in their listing leads me to believe that problem(s) were known, but that is spilled milk. My fault is not acting within the return window. | |
| My experience with The Music Room I am in the minority of customers who received 100% inoperable equipment -- a CD player -- from TMR. With the situation of my life then, I had no way to seek redress. Ok, so I ate the 1500 or so. It was just too bad, I guess. I would not purchase... | |
| Dog pissed on speaker Sorry to hear about this. I had pets growing up, and miss having one nonw, but between the high-dollar speakers and spousee's furniture, pets aren't happening for us. After the original assault and different sprays or organic compounds have hit t... | |
| Terry DeWick has passed I had only email communications with him. He was quick to respond helpfully. A good man indeed. | |
| Krell KSA200s Help I have a Krell 200s that distorts and clicks loudly when played at low or medium levels. By "low or medium levels", I mean no level LEDs on, or one LED on intermittently. When I crank it to where it is too loud to stay in the room, the distortion ... | |
| Costliest Brainfart At a show with 200/300 people, I put 120VAC (hot wire) onto a common *audio* ground. Silenced both amplifiers and both speakers. Took Altec VOTs and Marantz 1060 from my van for substitutes, but... | |
| Tube microphonics A thought I have *may* reduce the cost of fighting microphonics. And ChatGPT seems to agree -- to an extent: Is there such a thing as high-temperature O-rings, and could they be put around vacuum tubes in HiFi equipment, to suppress microphonic... | |
| Monster m 850 cable upgrades I share the experience ghdprentice had. Monster products were -- to say it gently -- not helpful in any of my systems at any time. | |
| Is My Tube Amp Unfixable? Help Needed Assuming this amp uses a removable (IEC) power cord: You mentioned power cord -- are you (still) trying different power cords? I ask because I actually had a very bad IEC power cord -- bending the cord made the problem (noise/static) even worse. ... | |
| "Can You Lift Yours?" In my 60's, and very seriously handicapped, I have big Macs and giant Krells. I pay my sons' tuitions. I fear only the day they graduate. | |
| How Do Amps Affect Soundstage? There are numerous significant electrical and physical differences between a stereo amp and a pair of "identical circuitry" monoblocks. Here are four: One electrical difference is crosstalk (L signal getting into R, and vice versa). Crosstalk is ... | |
| Buying Used Equipment on the Internet I'm looking back at years and years of buying "vintage" on line -- both tube and SS.. Sometimes I've received very defective equipment listed as "Works Fine". Sometimes I've received very stupidly packed equipment, broken (think McIntosh glass and... | |
| Is it Possible?? I would expect reverberation to be at play as much as high-frequency attenuation. | |
| Will the placement of casters on speaker stands degrade the performance Sure, there will be the question of stability with the large-frame speakers, there will be an acoustic effect as the speakers are lifted slightly higher above the floor, and MC's statement about problems with precise positioning on carpet is true ... | |
| Poor grammar is disappointing and decidedly distracting in formal audio reviews. There is a direct relation between proper grammar and organized thought. The two travel together.Misplaced punctuation, run-on sentences, and wrong words (e.g., "too" is not a number) are warning signs. After passing a handful of such signs, I tur... |