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| Your Favorite Cover Songs? well, apart from really liking SHEL's cover that Mofi posted (thanks Mofi!), here are a few of mine:Thunder Road (Springsteen) by Cowboy JunkiesDarkness, Darkness (Youngbloods) by Cowboy JunkiesOver the Rainbow by Eva Cassidy. also - pretty much e... | |
| B & K ST 140 repairs just the fuse holder is broken? And the amp isn't blowing the fuse? you could do it yourself for about $5 in parts. Alse a shop may likely charge you their min rate for the work - usually $60-80 is my guess. The true cost of the work is $5 for par... | |
| Speaker grills on or off? I prefer them off provided they are designed to be removed of course (I have some speakers with "socks" that don't easily come off and they are ugly underneath).That said, I always verify they aren't too brite with them removed. | |
| Any B&K Ref. 30 Gurus out there? puzzling . . . I'm out of ideas except to check if somehow the zone 2 mute is engaged? | |
| Any B&K Ref. 30 Gurus out there? afaik you don't need the remote - it works fine from the front panel. But, do you know that you have the correct sources selected? My recollection is operating zone 2 w/o the remote is confusing at best. But, if you can be sure you have the right ... | |
| Any B&K Ref. 30 Gurus out there? sorry - most obvious question but - Are you sure you have Zone 2 powered on? It's a separate remote iirc . . . | |
| cleaning tube sockets I use deoxit - spray it on an old tube, insert, remove, insert, remove, install new tube, let dry. Play. | |
| seeking Hybrid Integrated Amp recommendations Dtc - I follow you . . . he currently has an Integra HT Receiver, and is not satisfied with the music only (stereo) performance. He ran another thread questioning whether adding 2 outboard amps would improve this. The net of the thread is he would... | |
| seeking Hybrid Integrated Amp recommendations Unity Gain is one way that mfg's implement HT bypass. The point is he wants to be able to use his integrated to drive his front mains when using his HT receiver TV/HT. Otherwise it's used stand alone for music. | |
| Using a receiver as a pre-amp...many questions It's true that ht passthru is a significant advantage. While I wouldn't describe the volume matching as a pain, it's a serious inconvenience, or semi risky. When I used my Musical Fidelity preamp for HT PT, I set the volume knob at 12:00 which is ... | |
| Using a receiver as a pre-amp...many questions Jp . . . Tls has given good advice above. It did not occur to me that the Integra would not output digital sources to the tape outs. I think the direction you're going now can yield very good music results. The only thing I would add is this - Cle... | |
| Using a receiver as a pre-amp...many questions one possibility for your music sources is to use your Integra as a DAC (ie leave them connected to the integra via HDMI), and take an analog connection from a "tape out" (assuming you have one) to the analog input of your integrated. Otherwise get... | |
| Using a receiver as a pre-amp...many questions Jpg1975 - I took another look at your original post, and if you were thinking of buying those red dragon audio m500's - that's $2400 - far more budget than you will need to get a pretty nice 2 channel music rig to run in parallel with you HT rig. ... | |
| Using a receiver as a pre-amp...many questions Jpg1975 - I took another look at your original post, and if you were thinking of buying those red dragon audio m500's - that's $2400 - far more budget than you will need to get a pretty nice 2 channel music rig to run in parallel with you HT rig. ... | |
| Using a receiver as a pre-amp...many questions @Bdgregory do you think a stand alone hometheater pre-amp (for example emotiva umc-200) would be any better with regard to the issue I am experiencing? the short answer is maybe. I've tried multiple HT Receivers, and multiple Stand alone Pre/Pro's... |