realthing
Responses from realthing
| Don't waste money on ultrasonic RCMs Those of us who bought LPs in the 60s knew (or found out) that even if you only use isopropyl to clean your stylus with an artist's brush you wait 15 minutes (and blow on the stylus a lot) before playing anything. Otherwise, sounds great once. Aft... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? Count me in the 'very little difference' camp, if there is one in what seems a fairly binary issue. What's certain to me is that the difference between 14awg lamp cord and $10k cables isn't proportional to the price difference.I wonder what blind ... | |
| Done buying new vinyl @bdp24: Do you have numbers? I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it's far closer to 'all' than to 'none' (or even 'some'). | |
| Coming out of the blackhole called work...retirement My 2c from someone who did what you’re doing 8 years ago. I had last built a system in the 80s and it still works fine. But I decided to see what was around after 25 years of no spare time, now having a nice new very large room (actually a heated ... | |
| Done buying new vinyl I can't get past the thought that with all(?) modern source material being digitally recorded/mastered, a record factory and turntable make one heck of a clunky DAC. | |
| Done buying new vinyl New vinyl probably suffers from various effects, some mentioned already. LPs from the advent of RIAA-curved hi-fis in the mid 50s were made of good vinyl and recorded/pressed by companies that had great experience. Things got better all the way in... | |
| Recordings with incredible effects or imaging that we may not know about Circa 1999 I had a 27" picture tube tv mounted in a cabinet (GE I think). Whenever I put (e.g.) a football game on I could distinctly hear the higher frequency components of crowd noise coming from spots far outside the span of the tv set with its... | |
| Most satisfying system change in 2017? My system comprises many DSPs distrubuted between two computers, one a source-plus-DSPs front end, the second the 'active crossover' for a 7-way system (pair of 3-ways with single sub). Changes are numerous partly because of this; a pair of pcie s... | |
| Switching to solid state amp? Made the switch 45 years ago with a Sony TA-3200F. Still have it, though regulated to multiamp duty on my 'B' setup. Never had a problem, sounds fabulous. In the heyday of HH Scott, Marantz, Mac etc. it was heralded by all my friends as having the... | |
| The longest you have owned any gear? Pioneer SC-700 preamp and Sony TA-3200F power amp, both bought in 1973, both still in operation. | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? A look at some of the recently posted ancient Lansing and Altec advertising literature on audioheritage tells a good story. The answer is of course yes, things have advanced, but the quantum leaps took place then. Today's biggest advantage is in a... | |
| Will preamp manufacturers tell you if the model is phase inverse? A preamp that inverts simply outputs the negative of what's fed into it (the "inverse" wave). It won't harm anything.That's why "inversion" is one thing and "phase" another. The phase of a signal is merely the delay associated with it. IIR (standa... | |
| Will preamp manufacturers tell you if the model is phase inverse? As a guy who's concerned with phase perhaps more than most, maybe I can offer some overblown advice.First, never assume anything. The only way to check phase along the electrical path is with a signal generator and a scope, and the only worthwhile... | |
| Disappointed w/ Klipsch Heresy III. Now what? You should remember that the Heresy was designed (I'm guessing reluctantly) as a small 'center channel' for Klipschorns, which were designed in the monaural era and happily ate a room corner. The stereo age was a disaster for the behemoths as many... | |
| Can you hear the difference? I tried ripping a cd using foobar2000 to FLAC and to Vorbis (medium compression). I could hear the difference easily in the HF detail. In fact, Vorbis medium and Vorbis low compression (high quality) were differentiable also. Vorbis high quality w... |