Hi, i have soem 36KD6 tubes i need to test, and my knight tester is not new enough to list them. Can someone in San Diego help me out? thanks

Hi, i have some 36KD6 tubes i need to test. i have a knoght tester, but these tubes are too new to be listed. Can any one in San Diego help me out? thanks

Hi, i am going to recable my headphones. one is the original series K240 the other is k501. Apart from starquad does anyone have any suggestions for cable? If you used/suggest homebrew cable, please let me know where you sourced the cable. thanks

i have a philips CD721 player in my office with built in headphone amp. The amp is a NRJ4556, runs on +/- 12V, gain is 2.5 Would any of the following be likely improve the sound (which isn't bad but....) Adding some caps to the +/- rails, i was thinking several k uF bypassed with polyprop or...

I want to run an I2S cable from my CD player to my DAC. Is there a preferred/recommended cable for this. One end will go straight on the chip (SAA7210) the other will be terminated in a 5pin mini DIN plug. ta

i want to run an I2S input into my Perpetual Tech P-3A dac. My CD player has an SAA7210 chip. To get the I2S stream do i just run wires off the DAAB CLAB and WSAB lines off the chip? And does anyone here know the pin assigments for the I2S input on the DAC? ta

Does anyone here have a schematic of a stax energizer? Or do you have one you would open up and photograph? Why? i have the radio shack version and am curious what the differences are between the various models. A second note, my D-33 discman can drive the energizer, just not very well and...

i have seen several early Headroom amps for sale lately, they seem to be going for a little more than an Altoid amp. Does anyone here have one, and can you tell me/us where they stand sonically? By early these seem to be from the early mid 90's and are usually "standard", so Max, Cosmic...

Hi, An ignorant question- can two DACS be used at the same time? What i was envisioning was one transport feeding two DACS - one for left one for right channel- each DAC running a monobloc amp. My reasoning was this way interconnects and speaker cables could be reduced to a few inches, with...

Hi, and now for something slightly different. i picked up a Sony DAT D8 this weekend, and have a problem getting sound out of the unit. The unit seems to record and playback fine, as the VU meters indicate something is going on in there, but no sound out of the headphone jack, with the output...

Hi, my 10 year old sony earbuds just died. Any recommended replacements that meet the following critereia: 1) Under $50 2) Well balanced sound, i am not a bass head, and listen to almost everything at work. 3) i would prefer not to have full noise blockage i.e. Ety style. i prefer to be...