rmcfee
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| Tube dampers/coolers effect on preamp sound? I am using a Joule Electra OBS-1 which has 6 tubes in the preamp part and more in the power supply but I wouldn't think that they would affect sound (I could be wrong). I think of old Fender Teles with microphonic bridge pickups- the microphonics... | |
| Tube dampers/coolers effect on preamp sound? I have heard one person say that they heard a reduction in openness and soundstage when using a damper. Any opinions of this? | |
| Tube dampers/coolers effect on preamp sound? Thanks MOFI. Can you describe the improvement at all? | |
| How to reverse phase on a cartridge? OK thanks for that. I should have mentioned that it is a phono preamp only. I don't hear anything odd, or thin sounding, so perhaps that indicates that all is OK. | |
| How to reverse phase on a cartridge? Thanks BRF. Is out of phase quite noticable? It certainly is very noticable on things like electric guitar pickups. | |
| spikes under a subwoofer ? I cut 2 yoga foam blocks to make 4 smaller blocks and put them under the sub. It was too boomy sitting directly on the floor. Sorry I can't be more technical than that. | |
| HiDiamond Speaker Cables I have the HiDiamond H6 biwire cables and they seem great but only 50 hours on them. Can I really expect significant improvement from here? | |
| Setting tonearm angle? I agree that VTA shouldn't affect the azimuth, in theory. It does in this case. Tracking force goes off a lot too. The VPI arm with it's free moving wobbly pivot system is a bit weird to work with. Seems to be a great system though. Is this "uni... | |
| Setting tonearm angle? True, I have no reference. I just made adjustments until bedtime. Changing all those parameters each time is time consuming and it would be so great if you could adjust the VTA as the record played. The azimuth setting changed quite substantiall... | |
| Setting tonearm angle? If I change the tonearm angle I have to re-adjust the azimuth and tracking force since they change greatly. By then I can't accurately tell the difference. The fact is that each setting I have tried - arm level, cartridge nose down or nose up, al... | |
| How to set Sutherland 20/20 phono stage? Thanks Bill. It actually has a few gain settings in it. Can I just use my ears to get it right? | |
| How to set Sutherland 20/20 phono stage? Thanks! | |
| Twisting wire on VPI for anti skate? Thanks for the info! And I'll re-read the manual. It sounds amazing as it is but it can't hurt to explore a bit more and I do have the Hi-Fi News album. | |
| Twisting wire on VPI for anti skate? I wasn't really sure what caused it to skip. It is a mint album but I don't recall playing it before so it may have some flaws. I have a VPI Scoutmaster 2 with the anti skate gizmo but it is disconnected. The wire is supposed to apply AS force b... | |
| bi-wire vs jumpers What is shotgun? |