Phase II of my eBay clearances is nearly complete with only the trusty Trio not yet bidded for (or sold). Some really nice guy has sent me this: "Hi. I have picked your ad as one of our top 3 eBay ?Catches of the day? on my blog site. I hope the mention on our site enhances your chances of a sale at the price you are expecting. You can see it he http://blog.listencarefully.co.uk/?p=1528

My current stereo (not deserving of the term hi-fi!)system is now over 15 years old and was a pretty cheap package then. I should like to upgrade preferably in phases. Initially I plan to replace the amplifier and speakers. My budget is around gbp 1000. The room is approx 5x4 metres. I need minimum 4 line inputs (no phono) of which at least 1 tape loop. Headphone out 1 speaker pair Remote...

I have a cheapo TEAC R-400X deck on which I play my old cassettes. I was wondering if a low end Nakamichi (CR-1A/2A, BX-*, 480 etc) will make a serious difference in playback quality. My tapes are old and half of them are in mono. I am looking for good playback only, not going to make any tapes. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Hi guys, I was recently auditioning the Rotel 1071 pre-power combo on some lovely $12,000 Sonus Faber speakers. They were fitted with some $200 IXOS interconnects. I played a couple of vinyl records (Miles Davis - So what, Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon) the bass was overwhelming and a bit boomy at times (at least more that what I am used to). I replaced them with some $70 Tara Labs cables...

I am looking to buy a turntable for my sister, probably for fairly light use and will be connected to a fairly cheap Sony mini-system. I'm looking to spend about £100 max. I've been browsing Ebay, and hit upon a few questions - I know this is a very low budget so I just want to make sure I don't end up with something hopeless. 1. Obviously the mini-system doesn't have a phono preamp. Am I...

Being a tad more *open-minded* than a few here, I have recently spent a fair bit of time, energy and money revisiting *blameless audio* and (surprise, surprise) have ended up right back where I started - namely, back on '****ty' homebrew horns and valve amps playing LPs, radio, some movies and the odd TV recording from a laptop!! :-) The upshot is that I am now thinning out a lot of...

To spare my remaining active braincell (see other recent post) could someone kindly tell me what the speaker sensitivity figure for 1 Watt would be if the brochure (IMF TLS 80s) quotes: 'Efficiency measured via Pink Noise at 1 metre for 40 Watts = 98 dB' ?? TIA

I have a pair of 'AR' Hi Fi speaker enclosures which went into storage for a while and came out with rotted suspension on the bass cones. In order to change these bass units I have been trying to find who makes hi fi speakers these days. Not just guitar amp speakers or car speakers, real hi-fi speakers. It used to be Goodmans, Celestion etc. but all searches under speakers, frame speakers,...

Just to let people know I've now added a couple of pages on the Sugden C51/A51 combination to the audiomisc website. This includes the circuit diagram for the A51, but I don't have one for the C51. Slainte, Jim -- Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm

I wuz going through my 'spare kit' with a view to putting a few more things on ****eBay when I happened across my hitherto neglected AKG P6R cart with is spherical stylus: http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/AKGP6R.jpg ....and I thought 'better give this a ride to see if it's any good - if not, I'll get rid'! So I rigged it up (by eye only - only saps use protractors and scales :-) and...

I'm heaving stuff out of the house like a demon - more of this will be on eBay at the weekend: http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/itemsforsale/itemsforsale.htm Mostly the 'heavyweight/expensive' stuff, including (most probably, this weekend) the IMF TLS80s - in which someone here expressed an interest when I first mentioned them. If anybody does want them at a fair/reasonable price before I...

A question for the panel. I am thinking of building myself a preamp. And I think I would like to use relay switching for the input selectors. What recommendations do folks have about a good relay to use for this application? What gets used in studio kit?

The Krooborg is emboldened by the smoldering heat of aBxism rituals. Not for those gifted with golden ears. Do they even exist except as delusions? Turdborg senses the opportunity to embark on another round of preaching the aBxism religion. I'm going to encourage him to do so by offering a rare glimpse inside the aBxism chapel.

Subject: Alba Dual Dubbing Cassette - Radio CRS2005 Please can anyone help me? I have the above dual cassette recorder. Its green and includes a radio tuner. The two cassette decks are supposed to be autostop however I have found that with both of the recording/playback and playback decks the levers are too stiff to autoswitch off. Or maybe the drive bands are now too weak.

I have a Cambridge C500 and two P500s driving a set of Tannoy 611's I recently had a failure on one of the P500s, so dropped down to a single P500, on top of that it appears now I have lost one of the 6" cones in one of the Tannoys. Anyhow, and it shows how much I noticed. When re-wiring the speakers I noticed that I didn't get anything from the +L -L, and its not just on the one speaker,...

Anyone with fond memories of the original Lecson equipment may want to visit our group: http://groups.google.com/group/lecson-audio It's an active group of enthusiasts where you can find original advertisements, prototype information, magazine articles, owner's manuals, repair manuals, and schematics. Our group includes ex-staff, dealers, and owners offering unique perspectives on this award...

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I have got the choice of purchasing either a secondhand Arcam FMJ33 or a new Cambridge 840 CD player. Unfortunately I cannot audition either in my home set up but have heard both by way of demo. I am struggling to decide. Any advice? regards

My thanks to all those, both on and off list, who provided useful info on the noise weighting curves. The two ITU curves are similar but ITU-R ARM is a later Dolby Labs proposal which moves the whole curve 1kHz to the right. Thanks also to my pal Richard in the UK, I now have a chart in Excel showing all three

Hello, I am italian so please be patient with my bad english. I would like to buy a pair of sr 5 monitor audio boxes, someone can tell me how they work? does them sound good?? thank you