Magic cables are always on teh front covers of audio selling magzines, always another "breakthrough"!!!! Physics is always being redone in audio selling. Why did it take you 20 years? and all you did was a piece of wire? Esssh Bill Gates made $100 BILLION and lost $60 in 20 years!!! Now why is YOUR piece of wire any different than the previous breakthrough? and to think, all the labs at Philips, GE, Siemns NIST, an dso many others, missed this one. Are you the next Bill Gates? Nobel prize for something, probably not, how much is this magic list price?

My MMF-5 has always from day one had terrible cueing accuracy. Is there anything that can be done about it? I love the table, and it sounds great with my V15 Type 3, but the cueing is really bad. It seems to drift the most when cued up. Any suggestions? The table is level, and the V15 is passing all the tracks on the Shure obstacle test record at 1 gram. I get no audible mistracking at all. perhaps it does have something to do with the Anti-skate pulling the arm outward. I will try to post a photo of the anti skate weight tomorrow.

Any suggestions for a decent 5.1 amplifier on a budget? I'm thinking of modestly entering the world of home cinema. Hate to use the expression yet again, but looking for best 'bang for the buck' - $1000 would be an absolute upper limit. System's in a small apartment living room, so big volume would be unnnecessary... also not planning to use a sub.

Cheers.

So about this time last year I came onto these forums, under a different name (I can't remember what it was), and was asking around about a cheap entry level audiophile set up. After looking around and never committing I called off my search. Now I'm back again and trying to stay even cheaper than before. I'm away for school and currently unemployed, so most of my money goes straight to the universities pocket. Ok so no more of that nonsense, I've been reading around and wondering if I could just get a decent headphone set up.

Here is what is going on...

I have a full system coming consisting of:

Paradigm
Monitor 11
ADP 390 x 4
CC 390
PS1200

The dealer told me that Paradigm discontinued the PS1200 and
replaced it with a different sub (DSP3200). The dealer told me that Paradigm hasn't placed it on there website yet and I can't find any site that has any reviews on this sub.

The sub is suppose to be better because it is digital and has a dynamic range of 900 (whatever that means). The Peak is 700 watts and RMS is 300 watts.

Many of my LPs have old yellowed paper inner sleeves, or sleeves that have printing on them (e.g. lyrics). I'd like to preserve them but store the records in something else. I also want to preserve what's left of the outsides of my albums.

I'm hoping the audio veterans on this board can help here. And that your answers are useful not just for me, but for all beginners.

What steps can be taken, in order of importance, to get the most from your system Without Making any new purchases, or accumulating any new gear. (ok aside from little incidentals like twisty ties or some other common house-hold item)

I anticipate that there may be a difference in the priority of free-tweaks/proper setup for an analog vs digital system. I gladly accept for advice on either or both.

I received a catalog from them today. I haven't heard of them.
I think they got my name & address from Stereophile(which is fine). Does anyone have experience with them? I'm thinking they might be worth checking out. They produce high quality recordings. They even have a quote by "Stereophile's Larry Archibald." How old must that be?

I'm a new member & have a question for anyone. I have an old (B&O 4002) turntable requiring an input sensitivity of aabout 2 mV. My new home theatre receiver has no phono jack & the only input available is 200 mV. Is there any device I can use to compesate for this. As is, I cannot really get much out of the turntable. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks. RickR