My house has a neat old fisher/Scott tube stereo built into the wall sadly not used any more but ayways i was in the attic behind the system looking around and i found this neat little General Electric phono pre-amp....can anyone tell me about this and if it is even worth using...although i am a big record collector I always thought that the only reason for a phono pre-amp is if your receiver dosnt support phono. Send a e-mail to jeffbellemer@charter.net for more pics

I've always read that one of the best tweaks you can perform on your speakers is with a 9" level, positioning them front to back and side to side dead level. I have experimented with slight (1-3 degrees) backward tilt on many different types of speakers I've owned in the past and always found the dead level method proved to be correct, at least to my liking.

I'm wondering about this product. . . Has anyone used this as a pre-cleaner, before a vinyl wash?

Thanks!
Dave

If there is one subject that causes cries of derision from mainstream journalists, it is loudspeaker break-in, whereby audiophiles reports changes in a speaker's sound quality from new, reaching a plateau after what may as few as a couple of hours of playing music to over 100 hours.

When I was preparing Paul Messenger's report on this subject in the November issue (p.18), in which French researchers offer a mechanism for speaker break-in, therefore, I expected to receive a lot of feedback.

I haven't heard from anyone! So, do you all find speaker break-in to be real?

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Thanks very much.