Hi, I seem to have some issue with a tweeter on one of my keihlids, in-so-much that its not working. I had a mishap and dropped the speaker 2 inches onto a marble floor, no visible damage, but no tweeter. Could it be a number of things or is it just the tweeter is busted, is there an easy way of finding out, short of moving the good tweeter into the

I'm in the market for a separates system with a budget of approx £1000. That seems to be pocket money to many of you here, but it will be the most I've spent on a system to date. What I will need is: 1) Integrated amplifier 2) DAB/FM tuner (extra bands welcome) 3) CD player 4) Pair of floor-standing speakers

"Keith G" wrote Addenda: I've no idea about the US, but when the first SACDs appeared on the shelves in the UK they were priced at anything up to 24.99 IIRC and were met with zero interest from Joe Public.

So the makers claim!, seems to decode wav and FLAC files to better than CD quality;!.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5212396.stm -- Tony Sayer

Hi, I've just bought an old "music centre", model Fegurson Studio 50D. This unit looks very much like a Hitachi unit I had many years ago. At present just the tuner and amp are working, I'm very impressed with the quality of the amplifier and would love to restore the whole unit to life. The cassette deck runs however, there is a minute amount of output on one channel and nothing on the other. ...

The Game Audio Conference is coming up September 6-7-8, 2006 in Austin, Texas. The GAC is designed to offer advanced game audio sessions aimed at working industry professionals and is geared toward illuminating and proposing solutions to some of game audio's toughest problems. The conference includes a keynote address from EA's Charles Keenen, as well as, talks from the following speakers:...

Hi Does anyone know of anywhere in the UK which sells replacement loudspeaker cones, I'm repairing a pair of Wharfedale E.FIFTYs and both base drivers could do with a new cone, at a push I think I could get away with re-sticking in the original cones, but they have deteriorated with the humidity where they were being stored,

I am the proud owner of a Quad CD99 CD-P player, its Pre-amp, the 909 power amp feeding the latest 989 ESL Speakers. However, from the start I have had a problem with the remotes, the one that came with the 99 can control everything, except the volume for which I have to go to the other one, I presume the one that came with the amp (?). In any case I have two and I am told that one remote...

Where can I get Audio Blank Disks in the UK for a reasonable price? -- Derrick Fawsitt

Does anyone have a reprint of the Scott Dorsey 012 mic mod. I think it was in the Sept. 2003 issue of Recording Magazine. It would be much appreciated. Thanks, itsme

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A couple of years ago someone posted on this group (I think) a recipe for a solution of water and isopropyl alcohol to be used on imperfect vinyl when playing (one last time to digitize). Apparently this tip originated in the BBC. Works a treat but my bottle is running low and I have forgotten the proportions. Can anyone help? Dave W.

As subject, I'm the only owner, it's in *perfect* condition, absolutely no problems whatsover, has only been in my flat and basically hasn't moved since being bought in 2002. I've also got a 2m pair of XLR copper-silver-carbon hybrid pre-amp cables (van den Hul), 200 UKP new, looking for 100 UKP now. Pictures here; http://www.summerblue.net/model33/index.html

I have a pair of KEF Coda III Hi-Fi Speakers for auction on ebay: Item number 30012665965 Used lightly in a smoke free home. They sound very good. Model : a.. Kef Coda 3 - SP3016 b.. 50W, 8ohm speakers. c.. Serial numbers: 057581 and 057582 The Brown front panel is completely removable for a more robust and modern

Hi I hope that this has not already been posted. Apologies if this is the case. The Friends of Radio 3 have written to various BBC managers to complain about the reduction in bit rate from the normal 192kbps to 160kbps. You can read the news item at http://www.for3.org/second/BBC_R3_news.html#poorDAB Regards

I recently bought a Cambridge Audio 640H music server. I'm more than pleased with it, I find it easy to operate and I've already uploaded much of my music collection to it. Its networking capabilities, though, have defeated me. It has hooked up to the internet through my router and accesses title / artist details and internet radio as it should, but I can't get it to "talk" to anything else on my...

The BBC in their infinite wisdom have dropped the bitrates on UK Radio 3 DAB to 160 K Anyone here got a DAB tuner can comment on what they think of the sound quality now?. -- Tony Sayer

Well over my head but thank you for sticking to audio. Ludovic M. We have lots of audio-related threads on RAT. Not all of these will be over your head, or Jenn's, who's made similar remarks: On negative feedback, psychoacoustics, predictive value of THD, Hawksford, etc, nuggets among the boring stuff about BJTs you've...

Hi, I compared my 1974 pair of ESL57s against a pair of newish TDL speakers using a test CD with stepped tones and measured the output with a sound level meter. The high-frequency roll-off of the ESL57s was very noticable. The higher tones (10kHz up) were there but the volume dropped off rapidly. I was using a late (mid-eighties) Quad 34/303 combination for the test. What is the most likely...

Hi guys, Does anyone know where I could get a mains-powered MP3 player, or if such a thing even exists? Although I can do something similar probably using a flash MP3 player with a docking station, I was curious if anyone knew if anyone makes such a device? The usage is for an on-hold music input for a PABX phone system.