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Hey fellas, I've been quiet for a while here, enjoying my awesome WOPL 1000's and playing a lot of guitar. Lately I've been bored so I bought a kit from an amp builder and kit maker, Allen Amplification. I dig rock and roll, and this amp is pretty much a dead to nuts copy of a 1963 Fender...

Charlie had a hemorrhagic stroke this morning (&-6-2020). He was 83. I got to meet him after a concert about 30 years ago and he was a big man with a big heart. We're gonna miss you Charlie, RIP.

Sooooo....my 17 year old Troy-Bilt (Read MTD here) lawn tractor has decided it's time to retire. I've got a half acre to mow and this thing has been ok but as we know there's always room for improvement. Enter Zero Turn Fever. I've been watching the gal across the street mow with her ZT mower...

Hey guys, Is there a set of wireless headphones out there in the $100-$200 range that sound good? My wife wants a set and I was thinking of getting her some for Christmas, and they are primarily for her computer. The problem is that I've spoiled her with my WOPL powered stereo and she now...

I'm running two WOPL 700B amps in my main system, and when we get done with summer's activities here, I want to finish the process and go Full Comp. Right now, both my 700s have new main filter caps, Rev C main boards, blue 6 LED meter boards, and Don Imlay's dc protect circuit. All I'm...

I see only benefits from doing this. One of my WOPL 1000s has a flaky input attenuator pot. I always run these wide open, so I think that the next time I open the amp up I'm going to bypass the input pots altogether. My preamp has gain controls and an output attenuator so the ones on the amp...

Hey guys, I've wanted a simple way to measure my stereo left/right balance for some time. It's not always easy, at least for my ears/perception to get the balance right. I've got one ear that was injured and this has been a big help for me. I used the same circuit as drawn below except since I...

Hi guys, A lot of you already know this subject well, and it's something that I've been studying for years, and I can't ever get enough knowledge. I am reading the owner's manual for the dbx 400X program route selector and it's got some very good information about the proper order in which to...

Sooooo, I've got a bunch of outboard gear, signal processors, tape decks, cd players, etc. I'm running out of tape monitor loops and I've been checking out the dbx 400X and 200X program-route selector switching systems. Very cool, they allow me to change the order that different gear interacts...

I'm bidding on one of these today...the dbx dx5 cd player...Do any of you all have any experience or advice about this? It looks like a really cool old CD player, with impact restoration and compression onboard. Thoughts?

I finally went out and invested in a nice big UHF/VHF/FM antenna and rotator, the biggest one that I could find around town. 150" boom, made by RCA. It's now up on my roof, about 25' above ground level, and I'm getting real strong signals from fairly distant stations, 35 to 40 miles away...

Hi guys, I'm putting in my new filter caps from the group buy, and I don't have any snubber caps on my bridge. What is the correct value to use for these? I'm seeing various opinions all over the net, and formulas to use, etc...but I'm a big fan on never re-inventing the wheel. What's the...

Hi guys, Just spotted a working 700B on evilbay. There's a little over 5 hours left, and only one bidder at 399 so far. I'm thinking about going for it, but I don't want to get in a bidding war with other forum members. Please let me know if you're the bidder or are interested in going for it...

Hey guys, I've been enjoying my pair of WOPL 1000s for about three months now. The hardest part of it is keeping my mouth shut about how great these old amplifiers can be when White Oaked. Why keep quiet??? Because I don't want to drive up prices on this old Phase Linear gear. It's already to...

Hey guys, I am going to look at a large collection of vinyl this afternoon. A friend of a friend's dad passed, and they have some thousand records that they want to sell as one collection. I don't know what the genre is, no idea of what type of music it is, they said there was all types of...

Question for Joe...what's the input impedance of a Quasi Comp WOPL 700B? I need to know so I can calculate the capacitance needed to set the frequency roll off on the electronic crossover I'm using. It's a Dahlquist DQ-LP1. Thanks! Dave

And it's going to go nowhere for a long, long time. To say that I'm astonished would be a great way to begin. This player is so clear and defined, I really am blown away by how much better it sounds! I just got done with my first run through with the Spears and Muncil calibration disk that is...

This is a big thank you to Phase Linear Phanatic for going out of his way to help me with logistics, regarding the purchase of a PL700B. Craigslist in St. Louis had a 700B that I wanted but I'm in mid-Michigan and wasn't really into driving 800 or so miles round trip to look at and maybe buy it...

Is the Kenwood KD-500 and the SME 3009 mk II a good combination? I had one set up that way back in the 80s and I want to replace it. But I want the best tonearm combination for it. Would the Black Widow be better? I'm ignorant about tonearm compliance and its ramifications. Thoughts?

Hey guys... I just bought an Oppo BDP-105 universal cd player and I"m anxiously waiting for it to come in the mail...and I've only got one SACD to my name, Pink Floyd's DSOTM, so I have to fix that lack of program material. I am searching for SACD's to play in it, and I'm seeing prices all over...