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Another factor with tube amps is the power output. If you want gobs of power, you are going to spend gobs of money on the circuitry to handle it. Tube plates run at very high voltages. Richard You write as if you’ve held a soldering iron in your hands. Ah, the delight (?) of finding a cold-soldered joint. First amp I built was a package set by EICO (fit Part A to Part B with Wire C) and once I got the concept I built my own: a humongous...

You write as if you’ve held a soldering iron in your hands. Ah, the delight (?) of finding a cold-soldered joint. Yes, I've sucked a lot of lead fumes. Still did up until a few years ago, when my absent-mindedness started getting me in trouble with 450V B+, and less dangerously forgetting just where I clipped that resistor from to solder in a new one. High voltages are not a good environment to find out you left your brain elsewhere...

I don't know if you can use your PS3 to play music/movies from your computer. I'm guessing you cannot. You can. The PS3 will network with your PC and play/show video/audio/images you have on your PC hard drive. Generally you can play anything that you can physically materialize on your PC's hard drive. You can also copy any or all of these to the PS3's hard drive as well of course, so you can play them without having to...

Thanks for the tips. Perhaps I can drill at a bit of angle behind/through the existing crown molding and get the wire into the wall, and then pull it down from the hole I need to make below it. we will see:-) --Alan

Thanks everyone, for your thoughts. Yes, I have a 1080p (or is it 1080i? I forget which, maybe it handles both) large screen plasma TV. Now the question is WHICH blu-ray player? Time to go shopping! I guess I could see the ratings on Amazon for a start. I wonder if Consumer Reports is any good for these things? Thanks, RB

My first comment is that I don't have a network receiver nor an Internet capable TV so I won't guarantee the following comments. My understanding is that a network receiver is simply a receiver that you can connect to the Internet. The receiver (at least some of them) then can receiver music from the Internet or from another computer. In your setup it you will need to connect the receiver to the network either directly through a...

RB, No, a Blu-ray disc does not play on DVD players, but both types play on Blu-ray with an up-convert of the DVD disc (the up-convert is only slightly noticeable from what I see). I have 32 Blu-ray disc so far and only 2 maybe 3 include a digital copy. If I were you, who I’m not, but if I were, I would start buying the Blu-ray version going forward. I think you should spring for a Blu-ray player since the price is only around $200 give or...

Michael says The only tweak that did work I discovered: zone-melting of the aluminum substrate of CDs to repair faulty pits (being read as lands) using an alternating magnetic field (a Radio Shack bulk tape eraser). I found a 15-second circular pass with the bulk tape eraser extended the frequency levels both high and low. Under the microscope the difference between number of pits before and after zone melting was noticeable. I'll have...

Hi Rich, Thanks for the reply. The set is as follows. I have an internet capable TV upstairs in the bedroom. I plan on connecting my bridge to that TV. The PS3 and the soon to be purchased network receiver will be set up downstairs. So while I appreciate the suggestion of the switch, I do not see that working. When I have the PS3 connected to the receiver, can I access my home network to play itunes, stream movies from the internet (other...

Aren't these just the new OTA HD channels, so they would naturally also be in a basic cable package? The old pre-HD TVs I have with converter boxes and rabbit ears get in all kinds of new channels I never received before, and my HD TV when I A/B switch it over to "Antenna" also gets in stations that did not exist before. Ken