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| Saw Brian Ferry Last Night! Excellent! It's great to hear live music whenever possible, and even greater when the venue has a properly designed sound stage. Isn't that what this hobby is all about? I too missed out on this bands live concerts, but still enjoy the Avalon r... | |
| What was your first big eye opener with regard to audio? Ha! Interesting thread.....for me vacuum tubes. I added an (Audiogon purchased) C-J PV10B (preamp) on top of my existing Marantz 2285 and Wowza! Unbelievable! Made my JBL L65 speakers (of the time) sound fantastik! From that point forward I ... | |
| JBL 100 Classic or Klipsch Heresy III? I also had a pair of JBL L65 speakers.I parted with them in 2009.....A great sounding speaker. Hang on to them.Good luck in your quest!You may not like the horn speakers over time. | |
| Turntable that will be around heavy foot steps? noromance1,839 posts04-03-2019 1:59pm"Look at framing out the specific area under the turntable and supporting the floor from underneath with lolly columns."I agree with noromance....If you can, beef up the floor under your system components. I... | |
| Cartridge Impedance I have no intention to hijack this thread.One more question please?Its has been my understanding, for many years, that adjusting or tuning the impedance (resistance) on a phono stage for a MC cartridge also helped with dampening of the bass speake... | |
| Asking for help - Please! How to play CD's in car with no CD player! Hi Everyone!Thanks to all who helped me out!I was successful!Used Steve Jobs software (iTunes)to copy 7 CD's and put them onto the mini 'fingernail' drive which was recommended.Once I got the hang of the apple software theprocess went rather quick... | |
| Do any of your Rolling Stones recordings bring "Satisfaction"? Absure song....likely most have not heard it."Waiting on a Friend". I really like it! It has some sort of magic that touches emotions..... | |
| Asking for help - Please! How to play CD's in car with no CD player! "as for what happened?the sun kept coming up and going down. somewhere on a few of those instances, people came up with what they thought were good ideas, which as it turned out, were good ideas.the problem is very little of it ever crossed our ra... | |
| Asking for help - Please! How to play CD's in car with no CD player! OK, Got out the manual and here is what I can discern.....Supported USB music specifications:MPEG-1/2 layer3, OGG (Vorbis), FLAC, WAV, WMA (std /pro)Then it goes on about bit rates and sampling frequency for quite some time....I'm not going to pos... | |
| Asking for help - Please! How to play CD's in car with no CD player! All, Thanks again for the help. Our phone data plan with Verizon is only a gig a month, not a lot of data.I do not wish to increase our data usage.....retired on a fixed income. Reason is we use our phones as phones. I don't play games, etc.We h... | |
| Asking for help - Please! How to play CD's in car with no CD player! Hello All,Thanks for the advise so far.Phone is a Google Pixel with 32 GB. It is a Android set up. (Not apple)Pixel (Gen 1) does not contain a Micro or Mini SD slot.Vehicle is a 2019 Kia Sportage SX.Music was originally made via Amazon; download... | |
| I give up on new vinyl Even new records need a good quality cleaning.Please see the information posted below for the benefits of clean records.Thanks, Benefits of Proper Vinyl Record CleaningThis web site has been an excellent source of information and knowledge sharin... | |
| RIAA, Questions only please "Roger, I think you would make more headway with those of us who are not engineers by dumbing down your statements so as to make your point more clear to those of us who are not steeped in the jargon. We are not stupid, just ignorant."I second tha... | |
| An encounter and lesson in speaker prices ... Some equipment manufacturers preamps and amps are 'out of phase' by design. The easiest way to get them 'into phase' is to reverse the wires at the speaker posts. One such manufacture is Conrad Johnson. There is a plausible explanation as to wh... | |
| Help- Review on Phono Stage Ok, thanks for the honest opinions from group. I am currently running a C-J EF1 phono stage and it is still performing well. No reason to take a step down. Thanks again. |