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    amp repairs in cape town recomendations

    hi gents. i need to have some older amps repaird/reconditioned and im based in cape town i need a good reputable reliable guy who has years of experience / deep knowledge to fix / recon my babies these are not cheap amps so i need somebody who will work on them as its their own amps. they are...
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    need help sourcing quality parts

    i eventually orderd some nichicon LS caps via ebay, its 4700uf 80v, just basic nichicon. rs-za needs credit card or acount. so i decided not to use them,they also do not stock nichicon. i had to look long and hard to find these caps, as they needed to be 35cm diameter/30cm height wich was hard...
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    need help sourcing quality parts

    thanx for the feedback guys, this is for a car amplifier anyway, i noticed the epcos caps, but would prefer nichicon or panasonic,cornel dubilier i can only find 4700uf 100v caps on za-rs website, but need 4700uf 80v... not sure if 100v would work though.im no expert,just a regular diy guy ...
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    need help sourcing quality parts

    thank u ,but i need 80v caps, its for a high performance application. those are indeed good caps though, what price are we looking at btw ?
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    need help sourcing quality parts

    thank you very much .
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    need help sourcing quality parts

    i want to repair a old amp i have, i need to find the following replacement parts, 1st :transistors : IRF9640  , IRF640  , IRF3205 .  the updated "replacements" come with a "pbf" or "npbf" prefix. 2nd : caps : Nichicon or Panasonic  4700uf 80v caps can these be purchased local ? i have...
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    Those hard to find ORIGINAL semiconductors

    not disputing, but what gaurantee is there for authenticity ? have you dealt with them before valvesound ?
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    for the old school :

    click link, just some good old school gear, kicks-for-pics- ;) http://rongbay.com/Ha-Noi/trieutungaudio-chuyen-am-thanh-gia-dinh-c279-raovat-14463415.html
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    worst sounding speakers

    Mm, what sounds bad to one person might not sound bad to someone else. I think its a personal thing/culture/upbringing. Some poeple mite actualy like a very sharp tweeter,instead of a neutral sound.Because thats what poeple are used to,and find acceptable. I like all genre music,and have a open...
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    Please Help: Windows Media Player

    Those thumb nail pics are cached on the hard drive,and has been indexed. Best is system restore pc to a earlier date. Longer route is remove indexing,uncheck all media players file asociation,reboot,then re-check all file types. But rather just do a sys restore 1st.
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    Now this is bizarre.......Squeezebox again

    Glad its sorted,had exact problem some months ago,now I never skimp on quality rca's.
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    Urgent question: hd pvr hdmi and optical/digital audio output work?

    Avamp has no hdmi yes. Thank you for replies.
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    Urgent question: hd pvr hdmi and optical/digital audio output work?

    Ok,reason I ask is if digital out works,can use avamp dac, but would hdmi out work in conjunction with digital out? Hdmi sends video and sound,so why would hd pvr have you send say a hdmi to tv,and digital audio out to avamp?
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    Urgent question: hd pvr hdmi and optical/digital audio output work?

    On the older Pace hd pvr decoder,does the hdmi work? And the optic/digital audio outputs? And scart? I know the usb port is disabled.
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    Which Laptop for Music and Video

    I would try and get one with a digital audio output(bypass the dac),and connect that to avamp
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    My current top 5...share yours please!

    Rodrigo y Gabriela live in japan,lenny kravitz greatest hits , carlos santana black magic woman, playing these the most ,must add that Rodgab rocks! ,though their latest cd-live in france is a big let down including the quality of the recording.live in japan probably their best in my...
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    nad's new DAC

    http://nadelectronics.com/products/digital-music/DAC-1-Wireless-USB-Digital-to-Analogue-Converter seems interesting, uses burr brown dac and op amps, specs says 48khz/16bit though, why 16bit? anyways,wonder what pricing would be.....
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    DAC or laptop?

    so dac's or any upscaling (software/hardware included ) would only be useful on uncompressed files/music ? where do you draw the line.... lets say you want to upscale the bellow formats :  improvement in sound quality on 1-10 scale 128kb MP3 file      improvement ? 328kb MP3 file     ...
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    DAC or laptop?

    why would external dac be better ? software on laptop also upscales same as external dac. just want details as to why. laptop will use its cpu to do the upscale proccess ,same as a external dac . so where is the difference ....?
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