Hello Folks, I am planning to buy a sub $100 tuner for listening to FM and AM. Any Suggestions. Thanks in advance.

The questions are still good, but it used to be they'd flip it to a new one by Sunday afternoon. Then it was late night, now it's Monday, maybe. OK- maybe nothing earth shattering about it drifting, but it seemed a good time to be able to check it out Sunday night when I wasn't doing much anyway, and had time to browse the last week's responses.

As Lamont might say: "You guys need to shape up and get your shit wired tight!"

Hii all,

My HK 3485 stoped sending the audio output. From one minute to the other, while looking like it's working, and no warning signs/red lights etc. is showing, it'll not fire the speakers.
Did anyone heard of a 'protect mode'? how to get out of that and back to playing music?
fyi - the 'mute' is not in action, all connections appear right and there was no surge etc.

thanks very much for your help.

Overheard a conversation the other day about someone who had gone to great lengths to determine the acoustic properties and problem areas in his room for his audio. He said he made some bass traps (and midrange I think) to avoid reflections cancelling our and/or amplifying certain frequencies... Claimed it worked wonders and he can now hear the entire frequecy range much better than before...

Sounds quite amazing. Does anyone know anything about this and whether this really is such a big winner. How easy is this to do?

Many thanks in advance for any advise, Floor

So, with all the gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands over whether the Furutech demagnetizer is snake oil or not, I've got a good one for y'all..

Introducing the Synergistics Research Acoustic ART (ART is an acronym for Analogue Room Treatment):

http://www.synergisticresearch.com/?p=195

Real or more high-end hoo-ha? I've heard the professionally set-up main listening room of a well-respected high-end Bay Area dealer with and without this "system" , if you can call it that.

Yo

I'm puzzled

I have a nice set of KEF 104/2 reference (circa 1992) build
and a set of Cambridge Audio R50's (circa 1976) I dusted off and brought out of retirement when I sold my Maggies and Krell KSA 150 (for financial needs and the fact I have a wifey) So now I'm dusting off some old stuff.

I'm running this on "The Pre-amp" by Musical Fidelity
and two Meridian 205 Mono-blocs - Source is my older Roksan Caspian CD player.

Wot is making me scratch my head and shift my fleas about is that the older Cambridges seem to be beating up the KEFs.