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    Advice on equipment swap

    It's more around the external tweeter (separation of sounds) and the increased sensitivity (89db to 90db). Maybe not much, but I get a bit carried away with these things...  :drool: :winkwink:
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    Advice on equipment swap

    Hi all I have the opportunity to swap my B&W CM9s and CM Centre 2 (plus some cash) for CM10 S2s and CM Centre 2 S2, which I'm super keen to do, but I'm struggling to find comparative prices since neither seems to sell very often. On some overseas sites, the CM9s seem to go for around R15k to...
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    LF: B&W CM9 Tweeter Dome

    Hi - anyone happen to have one of these laying around that they would like to sell? One of mine look like a curious child has pushed it in... Thanks James
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    Low volume on cellphone to power amp

    Hi all - please excuse my ignorance... I have an old Rotel RB-991 amp hooked up to a pair of B&W CM5s. My idea was to create a remotely controlled music room by hooking up my old android cellphone to the amp via a audio jack to 2 RCA cable, and installing Spotify on the phone. Gave it a go...
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    Mounting wall speakers on speaker stands

    Thanks guys. I'm not very handy, though, so was hoping either someone might know of an existing option (surely this isn't THAT unique?), or knows of someone who builds these?
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    Mounting wall speakers on speaker stands

    Hi all I have a pair of B&W DS6 S3 wall-mounted speakers. The layout of my room is such that I don't want to mount them on the wall, though. I also have a pair of speaker stands that mount bookshelf speakers (used to host my B&W CM5's perfectly). I'm struggling to find a conversion mount that...
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    Insurance claim for Sony STRdn1050

    Does anyone know how the insurers decide on a replacement value? I've also had my Marantz SR6003 melted by a power surge recently, and my policy apparently covers it, but it's a old amp now, and the replacement model is almost R23k. Anyone have any experience in what I should expect from my...
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    AVC for equipment repair

    Hi all Does anyone have any experience with AVC (http://www.avc.co.za/pages/installation/avc-repair-department.php) wrt servicing/fixing AV equipment? I want to try them because they are close by, but I haven't seen much mention of them in the forums. I need my Marantz SR6003 repaired (HDMI...
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    Opinions on a working 1966 Stereophone Black Box valve set

    Thanks Braam - pity. I'm going to move this to the "For Sale" section. Thanks everyone for you help! James
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    Opinions on a working 1966 Stereophone Black Box valve set

    Thanks Charles, much appreciated.
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    Opinions on a working 1966 Stereophone Black Box valve set

    Hi My girlfriend's dad emptied out his garage the other day and found his old 1966 Stereophone Black Box valve set, with Long Play record player (plus a bunch of Long Play records). He's asked me to find out if anyone would be interested in something like this, and whether it could be sold? In...
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    AV Receiver taking longer to handshake lately

    Unfortunately, changing the startup order of the devices doesn't seem to work, either. It may sound silly, but it's almost as though something in the AVR has to warm up first, or build up charge, or something like that. I don't suppose anyone has any more ideas/thoughts...? Thanks James
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    AV Receiver taking longer to handshake lately

    Hi all - thanks for the responses. Nice suggestions, jvr - I'll give the power-on-in-order option a go tonight and see what happens. Splitting the video/audio outputs seems like a great idea, but I'm not running a jenny so I imagine it will turn out to just be more work having to switch sources...
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    AV Receiver taking longer to handshake lately

    Hi all Does anyone have any experience with AV receiver handshakes? I have a Marantz SR6003 hooked up to a Samsung PS60F5500 via HDMI (output 2 as output 1 seems to have died...). Connecting into the AVR are a HTPC (HP Microserver NL36 through a HD 5450 graphics card) and a DSTV HD PVR (4...
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    Old amp repairs (Rotel)

    Thanks Henry - I'm picking up the amp tomorrow and will take a look. P.S. Does anyone have any good internet links on how to troubleshoot problems with and/or care for amps? I'm sure there's tons out there, but I'm kinda hoping to not have to trawl through a few hundred only to find most of...
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