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Hello everyone, it's been a while... I think I should change the interconnect cable between the preamp and amp. Professionally refurbished vintage Sony TA-E86B and professionally refurbished vintage Hitachi HMA-6500 (now with WBT-0201 RCA) are currently connected with the plain and cheap...

Which are the best thermal pastes / heat sink compounds for use in audio (vintage mos fet amplifier)? Feel free to recommend more than one, because here where I live I might not be able to order everything. Thank you very much!

C7 power cable for Blu-ray player? I need to upgrade a power cable for my Onkyo BD-SP809 Blu-ray player, I still use the original throw-away cable, that's type C7, non-polarized: I don't want to spend more than $150 USD for Blu-ray player cable, hopefully even less if possible. The shorter...

I planned to have integrated amp with built-in DAC - but now I'm taking a different road. A power amp, preamp, CD player. But what I will use as a preamp is in fact a head-amp, with only 1 RCA input. That is OK for a CD player, but I also have to connect somewhere my computer via optical cable...

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Anyone familiar with these beauties? http://www.gato-audio.com/ http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/gato3/1.html They look awesome to me, but way too expensive for me. Until today, when I got an offer to buy an ex-demo unit for good price. But that integrated amp is class D and I'm not familiar...

Hello all, I use Sennheiser HD 598, I love them. At the moment I have Magnum IA.170 integrated amplifier, which has a headphone jack, just like all of my prior amplifiers had. But now for the first time I plan to buy soon amplifier which won't have a headphone jack. I will buy either JOB 225...

Hi, if you understand surge protectors - AC cleaners/correctors, does these figures tell you anything (about one such device)? Thanks in advance. Voltage tolerance (under power load): +/- 1% AC correction speed: 8 psec CMRR (common rejection to ratio): 88 dB Load power / peak to peak power...

Hi all, I discovered this forum almost a year ago, while browsing the web in search of comments about those fantastic Swiss amplifiers from JOB. From what I figured, this is amazing place, because discussions are relevant, interesting and informative (unlike Croatian audiophile forum).