dgarretson
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| TIDAL-Who knows what you are hearing? Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Accessing Tidal through Roon, all albums sorted to the Tidal Masters list are MQA, but there are many more MQA albums in Tidal that don’t sort to the Tidal Masters list. You have to stumble through each artist to find all the MQA ones. With Roon, ... | |
| Has anybody tried the Star Sound Tech-Platter Ground? This has been around for several years. I have used it on a Luxman PD444 and an SP10 MkII, both with copper platters. I compared it to a Stillpoints LPI. The Platter Ground works well and does about the same thing as the LPI at reduced cost. The i... | |
| What’s wrong with Diana Krall? @schubert Well, Chuck Berry’s Johnny B. Goode is out there on Voyager 1, and will be rock'in long after you’re gone. | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming I can't hear a meaningful difference between CD/SACD discs on my Esoteric K-01X and files or Tidal into the USB interface of the K-01X. However, the Ethernet-to-USB conversion needs to be of high quality. In this instance, Roon DSP engine on QNA... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? Bobby liked them around 6.5’ apart, the listener around 9.5’ from each speaker, and a bit more toe in than you might expect. Stay fairly close to that.Also, periodically clean tarnish off the bare copper binding posts and torque down the screws on... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? I've been all over the VSMs: LPS for BBAM, replacement of stock Hovland mylar caps in crossover with ClarityCap CMR, replacement of stock Caddock resistors with TX2575s and Dueland graphite resistors, bucking magnet on the 8545, silver wire inside... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? Rough sand off the lacquer coating the perimeter of the steel plate that covers the stock magnet. Rough sand the mating surface of the donut shaped bucking magnet. Place the driver face down on a level surface. Thinly coat both surfaces with 5 min... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? Actually, one way to embellish and raise output of the Scanspeak 8545 mid/woofer relative to the Esotar tweeter is to add a Scanspeak bucking magnet. This doubles the 8545's magnet structure and raises output by several db-- as suggested by Tony G... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? Doug, the elegance of the Merlin VSM/BBAM design was that a Scanspeak 8545 driver has sufficient excursion to be EQ’d into a full-range midrange/bass driver, provided that the EQ fully attenuates frequencies below 30hz. Its admittedly constrained ... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? I don’t find my VSMs short on bass, low midrange, or macro-dynamics in a medium sized 20’ x 14’ room with a 7.5’ ceiling. IIRC, the BBAM adds +5db at 35hz and rolls off entirely below 28hz. There is a bit of port effect reinforcement below 30hz.Th... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... I was in error above: my Accuphase is an AC-5. Pewter body! | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @hdm Interesting tale about your Accuphase AC2. There isn’t much forum activity on Accuphase cartridges. I have an AC3 that I purchased new and have run in for several hundred hours on a Kuzma 4PT. It’s a good cartridge, but a bit plush and soft-f... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... Who ever said that capitalism requires parity of pricing across international markets? Better to forget about cartridges and gripe with the US pharmaceutical industry about their Canadian and Indian pricing strategies, which undercut domestic pric... | |
| What’s a 10k to 15k speaker from smaller company that performs well? Ditto Daedalus and Chapman. These are both artisanal product lines available from long-established designers. Both Lou Hinckley of Daedalus and Stuart Jones of Chapman are likable and freely available by phone. The factory-direct pricing model is ... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... Go to a major audio show like Axpona that is full of great analog rigs. Listen to the boutique cartridges and query exhibitors about their cartridge preferences and purchasing sources.Alternatively, stick with a vetted, boilerplate, high-end MC li... |