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| WOULD IT BE DUMB TO BUY A MARK LEVINSON NO 23.5 Great amp but they are VERY expensive to recap and service due to the fact the Levinson does not provide schematics to non authorized service centers. From what I am told, you will need to budget $2 to $2.5K for a future recap. | |
| Tice Power Block It could help and there is really only one way to find out and that is to try it out in your own system. Also, later Tice Power Block and Titans came with an upgrades TPT power cords. | |
| AtmaSphere Upgrade from Mk 3.1 to Mk 3.3 My friend had his MA-1 amp upgraded last year and he was very pleased with the sonic improvement. Sorry, I don't know what changes were employed, but he was also given a new 3-year warranty which is a really nice added bonus. | |
| How do you audition speakers at a store? Call the Dealer and make an appointment to audition speakers on their least busiest day i.e. not on a weekend or holiday. Call the Dealer the night before to confirm the appointment. IME, the professional courtesy you display will be reciprocated ... | |
| Insurance values "Coins" are deemed as currency/cash, and most policies limit the amount of currency that is lost. Rare coins are collectables, and require an appraisal, otherwise they will reimbursed on face value. I would bet that your insurance carrier/agent ... | |
| Genesis digital lens IMHO, money would be better spent updating your CD player. There has been a lot of digital advances since the launch of the Digital Lens some 25 years ago. Also, the Digital Lens is limited to Redbook 16 bits 44.1kHz sample rates. | |
| Insurance values My buddy wanted to insure his record collection and was told by his insurance company that he would require a professional appraisal to establish the insurable value. IIRC, the appraisal was quite costly and required updating at the insurance com... | |
| Audio Research Ref 10 vs 40th Anniversary preamp My buddy owns the 5SE and has a dealer demo ARC 6. In his system, I have a VERY hard time telling the difference between the two pre-amps. Perhaps a longer time with each would reveal the subtleties. He loves his 5SE and was hoping for more of the... | |
| Monoblock power amps same dedicated outlet? The guys at Reno HiFi told me that Pass Lab amplifiers do not employ a ground reference at the speaker terminal which makes them "less" susceptible to ground loops. Therefore, if you are running the big Pass mono block amplifiers, they recomme... | |
| Charisma Audio Cartridges Charisma Audio is a very small Canadian cartridge manufacturer, therefore, there may not be a lot of samples in use. | |
| Insurance values My understanding is that if your policy is for replacement value, you base the insured value on a similar item available today. I would consult your insurance broker to make sure, since that is his/her job. | |
| Can anyone explain in laymans terms why your gear sound better after warm up >>>>Do you have an explanation for demagnetizing CDs, too? I’m interested in both. Demagnetizing stretches the O and I so they can be more easily read as 0 and 1 | |
| Perfect Path Solutions Total Contact Mega Review Has anyone compared TC with Stabilant 22? | |
| Which Preamp Would You Choose? @adg01 The SF Line 1 with Sovtek or new production tubes is not what I would call SS or if so it’s very good SS, but again I would not go there. You are right, I didn’t mean to imply that all SS pre amps are poor sounding. What I was trying to con... | |
| PSA: Be Careful Dealing With Uptone Audio I am not sure that the credit card company will side with the buyer as long as he has the replacement LPS-1.2 in his procession. |