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    Millett "Starving Student" hybrid amp

    Yeah, I was referring to mods to the Starving Student. Sorry for not being clear. Those transformers are like ~130 each and you need more than one of them so that makes the SRPP much more expensive.    I saw that Pete said that he tried driving the K-1000 with the Starving Student and that...
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    Millett "Starving Student" hybrid amp

    I was thinking of building Pete's ECC99 SRPP Headphone Amp to drive my K-1000 but the BOM is outside my current budget. I saw that Pete said that this amp was able to drive the K-1000s. I have two questions:   1) Is it worth building this to drive K-1000? It doesn't have to drive the K-1000s...
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    Need a hardcore DIY solution for my RFI & EMI Problem

    i got a 2.5" ferrite ring... i don't know what type it was... i used the wiring diagram on this page: Radio Society of Great Britain I put six windings on each side. it didn't help much. I even tried making a cable using a firewire cable since I figured it's the most shielded thing I...
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    Need a hardcore DIY solution for my RFI & EMI Problem

    the interconnects could be shorter, but i'm reluctant to cut the interconnects i made because they are silver interconnects i made and I don't want to waste half a silver cable by chopping it up. i'll just make a new cables. a few questions? can I double up braided metal shielding to...
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    Need a hardcore DIY solution for my RFI & EMI Problem

    okay... I think I got a handle on the RFI..... the interconnect shielding is grounded at the source end (pre-amp) and on the power amp end I soldered a wire to the shielding and ran it out and connected it to the chassis of the power amp... this appears to have killed most of the RFI...
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    Need a hardcore DIY solution for my RFI & EMI Problem

    RFI and EMI help A few months ago I moved from Raleigh, NC to São Paulo, Brasil. I was living at my grandmother's for a few moved and finally found an apartment on Avenida Paulista. Great location except for one MAJOR problem. Avenida Paulista sits along a ridge, making it one of the...
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    Quail Power Cord Group Buy

    Now that i've figured out the discrepancy. I'm gonna end the group buy now... for those who have already placed orders I'll go ahead and include it with my order if you want or you can cancel. let me know what you want to do. the b2audio website wasn't clear and i had interpreted it as 29...
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    Quail Power Cord Group Buy

    ahhhhh... i see what's happening... you can't actually buy one cord. you can only buy pairs.... so when i put two in the box i though it would add two cables to the cart not two pairs of cables what's interesting is if you put 0.5 in the box and add to cart it charges you $15 I assumed...
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    Quail Power Cord Group Buy

    dude, i have no idea how you are getting 35.99 for two cables go to http://www.2baudio.com/ choose the ILJ cables enter two in the box add to cart and tell me the total. it tells me $65
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    Quail Power Cord Group Buy

    Sovkiller, it's not 2 for $29.... it's 2 at $29 EACH..... go to their site and add 2 to the cart and check your cart total....$65.98 with shipping I've emailed quail and the salesperson I talked to confirmed that they are in fact the exact same cable... if you check out the links I gave...
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    Quail Power Cord Group Buy

    these are the ones without the Choke. I've heard that the choke is not good for the sound.
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    Quail Power Cord Group Buy

    I've decided to put together a Quail Power cord group buy. The Quail Power Cord is the exact same power cord as the Iron Lung Jellyfish that is commonly available for $39 each. This is a 300% mark-up on the price direct from Quail electronics. For quantities 1-49 the price I was quoted is...
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    Vinyl...What All Do I Need?

    Hunt EDA record brush is the best one i've tried so far... the mofi brush is good for wet cleaning with a manual Nitty Gritty machine
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    Ground Wire

    your phono should have a grounding connection... if not put it to a piece of metal casing that should be tied to ground
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    I want to get into vinyl.

    Onix X-LS speakers - ~200 AT440MLa cartridge - ~90 Turntable - used or new? Phono - ??? amp for speakers - ??? Hunt EDA record brush - $20 vinyl is not cheap to get into if you are buying the whole system.... it's higher maintenance than CDs or FLACs.... what's your budget?
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    Flac in iTunes?

    everyone that has read this thread go do yourself and everyone else a favor and send feedback to apple regarding lack of native flac support: http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipod.html http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html i made it easy... do it now before you forget
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    shielding speaker wires

    how important is it to shield speaker wires and maybe put a "drain wire"?
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    I like the loudness button - is that so wrong?

    the loudness button compresses the music.... you get less dynamic range it's good for loud environments
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    Searching for the best analyzing, not "colouring", monitoring headphones

    truth is that you should mix with the medium you plan on having the music on.... most likely speakers...... headphones should only be used if you can afford to put together an acoustically treated room, in which case i'd use k1000s to get the best approximation of speakers....
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    K1000: Upgrade your stock pigtail (on the cheap)?

    what's so special about the Stefan Audio Arts cable that makes it preferrable to a DIY solution?
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    vinyl: hard to install new cartridge?

    what kind of cartridge are you getting? MM or MC? what's your table and arm? what's your price range?
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    vinyl: hard to install new cartridge?

    installing is easy, but you have to be careful getting it "just right" can be a a pain in the ass.... it depends how easily adjustable your arm is and if you have the right tools (good protacters, levels, scale, Hi-Fi News Test LP)
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    converting flac to apple lossless

    if you are using a mac i recommend XLD... especially for cue/FLAC or cue/APE conversion
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    Hi-fi in Shanghai, China ?

    Opera Audio/Consonance and Cayin are both well respected Chinese Hi-Fi brands
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