Re: First Tweaks for a budget-constrained mid-fi beginner - opinions? - MMasztal

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Re: First Tweaks for a budget-constrained mid-fi beginner - opinions?

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Posted by MMasztal on March 2, 2006 at 10:09:33

In Reply to: First Tweaks for a budget-constrained mid-fi beginner - opinions? posted by LBuzzer on March 2, 2006 at 06:46:43:

Definately spend some time with set up like jbmbc suggested. Remember if your room isn't acoustically sound, it won't matter how good your gear is. Go the the Room Acoustics (Rives) from the AA home page page for some info on room treatment. DIY is pretty inexpensive.

1. Try having a dedicated line installed. Usually cheaper than 2-3 new PCs and this will benefit your whole system.

1b. NO!!! It's potentially dangerous and against electical code.

2. Not worth the effort and you may mess your speakers up.

3. For inexpensive cables check out Blue Jeans Cable, Better Cables, etc. They use good Belden, Canare, etc., cable and many offer different connectors.

4. Before part swapping, try rope caulking the chassis of your CD player and amp chassis. Also look for some isolation devices for the CD player such as Herbie's footers, etc.

Hope this helps!

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Topic - First Tweaks for a budget-constrained mid-fi beginner - opinions? - LBuzzer 06:46:43 03/02/06 (12)

Re: First Tweaks for a budget-constrained mid-fi beginner - opinions? - K-Bob 18:48:24 03/10/06 (0)

Re: First Tweaks for a budget-constrained mid-fi beginner - opinions? - pkell44 10:08:24 03/05/06 (0)

First thing I would do - unclestu52 12:46:28 03/02/06 (3)

Yeah, but there's no belt... - LBuzzer 13:24:31 03/02/06 (2)

Re: Yeah, but there's no belt... - unclestu52 15:07:43 03/02/06 (1)

Re: Yeah, but there's no belt... - pkell44 09:45:09 03/05/06 (0)

Re: First Tweaks for a budget-constrained mid-fi beginner - opinions? - MMasztal 10:09:33 03/02/06 (0)

Re: First Tweaks for a budget-constrained mid-fi beginner - opinions? - MMasztal 10:04:44 03/02/06 (0)

Get a good notion of your system's strengths and weaknesses first. - Al Sekela 09:58:52 03/02/06 (0)

Re: First Tweaks for a budget-constrained mid-fi - DaveT 08:39:54 03/02/06 (0)

Bang / Buck - jbmcb 08:06:10 03/02/06 (1)

Re: Bang / Buck - grommet 08:51:42 03/02/06 (0)

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