HI, My av amp has just blown up - well not quite.. Some how somthing that was connected to it managed to burn out some of the circuets... Does any one know who mutch it's likly to cost to replace the video circuet + the lcd display? dan

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/30/78rpm.html None of yer digital nonsense here (apart from the mp3 bit ...) Julian -- Julian Fowler julian (at) bellevue-barn (dot) org (dot) uk

Reviewers often comment that it takes about 100 hours before a new amp settles down and start to sound like it 'should'. In this case, what constitutes 'burning-in'? Is it sufficient to just leaving the power on for a week? Or does it have to be driving a load (the neighbours are going to just love that)? Maybe a couple of chunky resistors across the outputs would be ok?

Hello, In addition to the Fletcher-Munson equal loudness curves describing our psycho-acoustic response, are there any curves to describe distortion in the ears? ie. Does each set of ears/brain have a second and third order intermodulation intercept point? ie. Can you be bombarded with large SPLs of pure sinewaves at 20kHz and

1m long, solid silver, AQ's best ever digital cable. Cost £150, asking £50 posted anywhere in the world. Simon

Just to say I've put a couple of very rare DA100 triodes up for sale on Ebay UK. bye, Chris. -- Chris Morriss

That's it Thanks The EggKing

I was just thinking about buying Radiohead's new cd (they sounded pretty good at Glasto I thought) and notice it's got this copy protection thing. Quick look around the net and this comes up: http://www.papmag.net/cgi-bin/frontend/frontend.pl?page=story&sid=114 Are people really supposed to buy this stuff?! Just have to make do with mp3s for now, which does rather defeat the object. Literally.

Just about to set up the DVD to Hi Fi (technics SCEH790) the DVD produces decoded 5.1 sound, and the Hifi takes the decoded signal "straight through" and to the speakers. There are therefore 6 phone sockets on the DVD and Hifi and require a cable to link the two units about 5metres apart. The Video also has two stereo out phones, which can be connected to the Stereo requiring 8 cables in...

Is it possible to measure Impedance with an ohm meter. For example can you measure the Impedance of a 4 ohm car speaker with an ohm meter? When I tell people they cannot measure Impedance with an ohm meter, you need an impedance meter and the impedance must be measured with the speaker in operation, with a signal generator supplying a fixed frequency, this always leads to disagreements with the...

Learning, a Major Factor Influencing Preferences for High-Fidelity Systems Author(s): Kirk, Roger E. Publication: Volume 5 Number 4 pp. 238-241; October 1957 Abstract: Frequency range preferences of 210 college students for reproduced music and speech were determined by an A-B-A preference test. Two groups of subjects then listened to music reproduced over a restricted frequency range and a...

A bit of a long shot but... ....I wonder if anyone here can identify these speakers by looking at them? I purchased them cheaply from an auction a few years ago. I /have/ opened them up before but I'm afraid that I can't remember much about them. They had a couple of large capacitor type things inside (they were bolted in place and the bolts were loose, so I had to hand tighten them to stop...

I know its not "hi-fi", but could anyone recommend a decent Portable CD "Ghettoblaster" system? Doesn't need a tape deck, but line-out for a minidisc recorder is essential, as is decent FM reception, and acceptable sound quality and volume. I guess I'm looking to spend around £100-£150... cheers Paul

Pictures are available of anything on the list, and please don't hesitate to ask me any questions you may have. Exposure XI/VI XI is mint and boxed, newest style bittle aluminium front panel. VI is near mint but nuboxed, and in older style wrap-over casing. Had switchable MM/MC phono stage (better than a Michell Iso), and tape loops, together with line inputs. Sounds totally fantastic,...

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:06:12 +0000 (UTC), "Mike" wrote: I have a Bang & Olufsen Beomaster 1100 receiver which was working fine. I turned on one day and it now produces a loud hum on both channels but I can hear the programme underneath. Any suggestions? Smoothing capacitor, rectifier? Or something nasty? It's about 1972 I think.

Since I just came across my first problem CD and I haven't seen any mention of them here for a while, I wondered if people are still finding them troublesome. To be honest until I got this disc I thought the complaints were, well, a bit exaggerated. I've changed my mind. The disc is Mariza, Fado Curvo, on EMI Valentim De Carvalho". Lo and behold I found it listed on...

Jeez, I 'rediscover' him a couple of weeks ago and now he's gone! See these links for the news of the passing of Benny Carter at the age of 95: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/14/entertainment/main563169.shtml http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=18369

"Mike" wrote in message ... I have a Bang & Olufsen Beomaster 1100 receiver which was working fine. I turned on one day and it now produces a loud hum on both channels but I can hear the programme underneath. Any suggestions? Smoothing capacitor, rectifier? Or something nasty? It's about 1972 I think.

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Hi, Odd phenomena, but I wonder if anyone can explain. I have a Quad 44 which feeds a Radford valve amp. I power the amp from the slaved mains sockets on the 44, so the amp 'sees' ground through the preamp. If I play my CD player through the Quad CD/Aux input - sounds fine.