hals_den
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| Damaging records with a hand turned machine. Yes you can. If the dry side of the record is facing a dry pad and you are simultaneously dragging the vinyl with a downward pressure across a dry pad, then any dirt on the surfaceof the vinyl will be scraping across the vinyl. Just be careful to ... | |
| Which Phono Preamp for my System???? Shortly after reading Grado's white papers on their PH-1, I found one at Echo Audio in Portland, OR and bought it. Grado's design made sense to me and I liked the price and fact that it works with low to high output cartridges. I haven't seen much... | |
| Best speaker for small 12x14 room 50 WPC tube amp Gallo Ref 3s. And I'd try Mapleshade's unorthodox speaker/ listner positioning. Sit back against the long wall and position speakers 2/3s of the distance from your back wall facing you. | |
| Can magnets permanently damage CRTs? The heavy duty $24 ebay degausser worked and some. The picture on the RCA XL-100 is even better than before the magnet experiment. Thank you all for the advice.Howell | |
| Steely Dan covers? The Minutemen did Dr. Wu on Double Nickles On The Dime. One of my all- time-top- three albums. | |
| DSOTM - PF Share my dark side?Man, was I a bad kid. When I was fourteen I ripped DSOTM (original EMI pressing) off the father I was babysitting for. Like he wouldn't know who did it.I listened to both sides that evening and was blown away. 28 years later I s... | |
| Can magnets permanently damage CRTs? I just bought a heavy duty degausser on ebay for $24. | |
| Long sub cable thats resonably priced & high end You set your main speaker settings to large and run a second set of seaker cables from from your main amplifier to the speaker level input of your subwoofer. But you may want to check with the amp manufacturer first. I think the amp would need to ... | |
| Can magnets permanently damage CRTs? Thank you guys for your advice. I did "the google" on CRTs and magnets and I will try to degauss the picture tube. I tried a tape head demagnitizer and it changed the color distortion. I think I'll just grab the next discarded TV I find on the str... | |
| Long sub cable thats resonably priced & high end I'd recommend you consider speaker level connections. I was using long ICs to my subwoofer when Andrew Conley of Psiberaudio pointed out that all that IC dialectric was actiing as a large capacitor on the preamp. After swithching to a speaker leve... | |
| Recommentation for small floorstander Another nod for the Gallo ref 3. Talk about good feng shui. | |
| Analog experiment Over the past several months I've been digitizing lots of 60's and 70's LPs for a friend. I'm using a Bang & Olufsen 4002 turntable with a Soundsmith SMMC20EN cartridge through a Grado PH-1 phono pre-amp to a $40 iMic to an iMac G5 and the fre... | |
| Fleetwood Mac - Rumours I recently bought this LP used for a dollar. My friends and I were blown away with how well it sounds on my system. I surprised you thought it sounded flat. I have read on 6moons that a lot of newer CDs are recorded very hot which compresses the d... | |
| Home Theater help? I've done the HT thing in 6.1 channel and I did my homework. But if I could start over I would build a 2 or 2 .1 channel system. It's way more cost effective, better for music and my wife the movie watcher prefers 2 channel stereo when watching TV... | |
| Best way to copy LPs to CD's using a Computer I have digitized hundreds of LPs with an iMic and the free software Final Vinyl. I have had excellent results. I have an Apple G5 and I'm not sure if the iMic/Final Vinyl is PC compatible. |