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| DAC Choices - $5,000 to $7,000 I would strongly suggest you order the the Schiit Yggdrasil ($2500) for the 15 day trial period. Power it up for seven days then give it a listen. No way you’ll find something "twice as good" for twice the price. In some cases maybe not even as go... | |
| Genesis Digital Lens not working The unit has optocouplers which can also fail after 20 years of constant use, so have the tech test them. Fortunately they are the pin type, still in stock at Mouser and therefore easily replaced. | |
| Opening Record Store Two questions I would ask:Is the guy you're paying rent to the owner of the property? If so, you may consider getting a lease.Is the property in default for taxes, does anyone have liens against the property, etc.? This guy could be out of the pic... | |
| PS Audio Power Plant 15........ Could be the Pass amp just doesn’t like any power conditioners with active devices. | |
| Separate grounded outlet for audio setup I’m assuming you mean an isolated ground, where the grounding back to the panel is separate for each outlet where two or more circuits share the same equipment (metal outlet boxes) grounds.Yes, if you run a separate ground from the outlet to the p... | |
| Are Shakti Stones effective? For me, they work. Significantly. I place them vertically on my 2A3 tube amps between the power and output transformers. Everywhere else (DAC, SS amp, preamp, transport, music server) not at all.Those are the only tweaks I use. | |
| Basic technical question about digital source signals You will see an analog waveform. There is no such thing as a digital stair step waveform because a digital signal does not have a defined value between two points in time. It has only one discrete point, and that point in time is the instantaneous... | |
| Re Building a power Amplifier Without a schematic and bench test equipment (scope, spectrum analyzer, DMM, signal generator, power supplies, dummy loads, etc) you would be facing quite the challenge. | |
| Quick fuse question Dual element fuse sizes are selected by different maths than the typical fuse. The ARC fuse is sized closer to the overload trip than the short trip. Single element fuses only do shorts. In this case, the overload trip is the fuse rating and is 5 ... | |
| Negotiate good price Just a couple of observations... asking dealer to match the price of new equipment to used equipment on Audiogon is kind of a silly request; second, putting your "hands above your head" can be seen as insulting the salesman by saying whoa! don't ... | |
| Aiff or Flac There are two reasons to use FLAC: saving storage space and adding/editing metadata. Since storage is cheap and ripping software such as dBPoweramp handle metadata for aiff/wav there really is no advantage to flac unless it sounds better on your s... | |
| amp repair cost too high?? It's like everything else: replacement cost. If you have, for example, a 30-year old Levinson 23.5 it will cost close to $2,000 in repairs whereas the market value is around $2,500. The alternative is to buy a new amp. But how much do you have to ... | |
| What heat sink compound to use in a Musical Fidelity A1? https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Aavid/249G?qs=L336xtxyopB3FeqhMjn9hQ%3D%3Dhttps://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/MG-Chemicals/824-100ML?qs=X5SXQx2ktnOWsZ6FNh%2FXEQ%3D%3DClean the old stuff with the alcohol. Use a small blob of goop at one end a... | |
| Amp repair cost — is this right? Pyramid Audio will quote you a price of $1300 to replace just the power supply filter caps in a Levinson 33x series amplifier, so, yes, the quote you got is not unreasonable.FWIW it took me the better part of a weekend to replace the damaged filte... | |
| Power Amp Heater voltage too high. |