If you don't use earthlink, just delete this message. It has taken me a long time to get mad enough to write this post. But I have finally had enough. If you...
Ray, thanks for the crossover. It mates the subwoofer in the Home page photo amazingly well with my 20 plus year old Acoustat electrostats. 8:-) jim......
You are most welcome, Jim. For those curious, the crossover's design was "tailored" to Jim's amps. It features 6dB/oct. passive high pass and 18dB/oct....
Hi tweakers, ( and lurkers ) Back on message # 393 I listed some of my future projects. Now that a few are past projects here's a report: 1) Build absorber...
-Hi Jim, It'll be 6SN7's in SRPP with a 5Y3 Pushing thru a dual choke filter. So, I'll have a pure tube line stage driving op-amp X-overs and a mixture of SST...
Hi Jim, The population of this group continues to grow but nobody says anything. Is a tweaker also a practicing quietist and therefore RFM is continually in...
Good morning Ray, Tweaks here have slowed as the main system is kind of set. The second system is in disarray. Sold my Acoustats and have bought Snell type C/V...
My first Scott Nixon DAC in it's new housing. An oak cassette holder. Yes Scott, there is lots of ventilation top and bottom. Blu-Tac type material damping and...
I have been busy with home repair/remodel/rearrange/reorganize (the 4 R's?), along with adjusting and settling in to a new family setting as I are no longer...
Hi Roger, Congratulations and welcome to the world of married audiophiles.- WAF is a fact of life that, quite honestly, keeps us a little neater and more...
... < SNIP > The digital cable is ... The ... Hi Jim, I know that you wish us to use restraint here on interconnect/speaker cable discussion but I cannot...
"embarrasingly inexpensive cable" What's embarrassing is I can't spell embarrassingly. No this is good stuff and it's only $15. Maybe we need to open up to...
Well put Ray. My wife likes the idea of a home theatre though, and her daughter is asking what TV we are getting for it. Well, that stuff just doesn't happen...
I want to listen to talk radio at work using a tuner without an earphone jack and an earbud. I did try wiring the earbud directly to the line out, but...
My suggestion would be to go to Radio Shack and get an Optimus SA-155 (RS stock number 31-1957) amplifier, or some other similar low-cost low-power amplifier. ...
-Hello Garland, There are a few low cost small devices out there. MCM www.mcminone.com part # 55-6182 is a small headphone amp going for $ 26.25. Radio...
Hi Group: Does anyone in here own of these mitsubishi or JVC HD tape VCRs? I am thinking about one; I am NOT interested in any sort of hard drive storage...
Thanks Ray and Roger. I am going to try picking up a high impedance (2 kohm) earphone used by crystal radio builders and connect it directly to the line out...
-Hello Garland, The tuners that I have worked on typically had fixed outputs of .3v to .7v and variable outs of 0 to 2X fixed. Out Z varies around 3K to 5K...
RS is having a 50% off sale on parts in their pull out drawers. 100K Alps stereo pots, blue LEDs, lamps for FM tuners, resistors, caps, speaker posts or...
The Sunher Coax you found is a very premium cable. If you have not chopped it up yet its worth a bit on eBay. They are one of the primary suppliers to Agilent...
I know this is an old item but in the interest of reply and passing on old stories what you described is the reverse of how the Koss ESL headphones were...
-Hello Demian, It sure would be interesting to know koss's EQ values. To emulate the "sound" of a speaker you would also have to include the acoustic ...
No I haven't cut it yet, but I confess I had not thought of selling it on ebay. I'll give it some thought. I could use some $$ to finance other audio...
I really like the programming on AM 680 out of Baltimore, MD but can't get it at home (about 40 miles away) or at work (steel and concrete building with lots...
Garland, see my response at FM list ... From: <diy_audio_tweaks@yahoogroups.com> To: <diy_audio_tweaks@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 10:30...
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