jameswei
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| What's up with America? I have always liked their music.Whenever I played them tho, I had to turn the volume upwards. Their recording levels always seemed lower than others'. Perhaps this might account for a sense of lack of detail.Has this been changed recently? Or does... | |
| Can you smell your speakers when youre rockin out? Never smelled anything from my speakers.I have smelled smoke from cooked electronics, but I guess that's not the same.Could it be the smell of the wood glue or of the fiber batting (if any) inside the speaker being expelled from the speaker port b... | |
| "Not paypal" "The best pay option is cash on pickup."Yeah, I remember an $8000 cash transaction buying a pair of monoblocks packed in boxes from a total stranger in a distant town. At least it was in broad daylight and thankfully the amps were good. | |
| Tube Amplifier for Thiel Ahhh. Played my 3.6s at volume today.Clean, loud, lithe, liquid, beautiful music. (Like a beautiful gymnast.) And lush, too.Gobs of power from my Carver. Made me feel refreshed from listening, but also just knowing that there's acres of headroom w... | |
| Tube Amplifier for Thiel To my recollection, the solid state amps that have a reputation for sounding like tubes have been made by Pass and Carver. I'm sure there must be others too.The Pass Aleph series was distinguished in this regard, although the most powerful one was... | |
| turntable location What Buconero said is quite so -- that airborne vibrations can be a a greater problem. A good dustcover can help somewhat here. The HW 19 Mark II usually comes with a good custom hinged dustcover that rests on the wooden base and is not in contact... | |
| turntable location Good question.Personally, I try to avoid really long interconnects. But if you go this way, be sure the interconnects are properly shielded with good grounding options.Can you try the closer location first? Maybe you will not experience any vibrat... | |
| Great guys to deal with in the audio industry "Ray Leung of Von Gaylord audio. Ray went above and beyond when I bought my equipment from him."He came over, tuned and installed everything to perfection. He then came by a couple weeks later to make sure that everything was to my expectations."W... | |
| Great guys to deal with in the audio industry Mark Levinson -- very gracious at Red Rose Music in Manhattan. | |
| Audio Equipment... the word Cool... and Life OK, so I'm not cool. I knew that. I've been told that for all my life.But I'm happy. I enjoy my audiophile hobby affliction. I like learning about equipment, systems, music, recording, the personalities in the industry, etc. I like getting caught ... | |
| rewiring preamp will it work Your headphones' impedance could be too low even all by itself. Many headphones have impedances like speakers', in the 4 to 16 ohm range. (Putting a high impedance amp in parallel to a pair of headphones would not make a lot of difference.)Presuma... | |
| Difference in quality in products made in China? I've often felt that quality control is a corporate choice. Like what kind of failure rate is acceptable for the brand and how much would it cost to reduce it.I have had failures in notebook computers made in China. But they are complicated produc... | |
| Our best musicians tour Europe. They'll be back. | |
| Where Can I Get Custom Made Foam for Speaker Box? I bought a can of "Great Stuff" at Home Depot. It is a liquid that is sprayed out of an aerosol can. The liquid rapidly expands and then hardens. I used it to seal around some pipe openings in the garage wall -- just spray the stuff into the openi... | |
| Amp issue, terminal or simple? My first guess would be a bit of corrosion on the volume control. If so, an easy fix would be a touch of "tuner spray." Or otherwise, you could try replacing the volume control, which could get a little expensive.My second guess would be a spotty ... |