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| Why so many wilson alexias for sale @twoleftears Luv it! | |
| Why don't all phono preamps include a rumble filter? "Rumble" is a misnomer since low frequency noise can also be caused by pinch warps or a wavey surface on an LP. Such defects are exacerbated by a non-ideal tonearm mass/cartridge compliance mismatch. You can visually see this sort of problem by ... | |
| Why so many wilson alexias for sale You guys with your sour grapes, envious, biased, and dismissive pronouncements are hard to take. Kvetching about a product you can't afford and dismissing it out of hand to make yourselves feel better. I don't find them to be my personal cup of t... | |
| Why so many wilson alexias for sale Most, if not all, that I've seen for sale are the first generation. Let's face it, if you could afford the first version, you can afford to upgrade to the second one. | |
| Has anyone added a small subwoofer to 2 channel and been thrilled with the result? I have. Martin Logan CLX with Descent i . I like to use a second preamp output to drive the subwoofer. This has the advantage of a cleaner signal for both woofer and main speakers, but the disadvantage of requiring a level adjustment if the main a... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound Given the differences are claimed to *audible*, I guess it’s reasonable to assume that sth like noise levels, sound distortions etc must show measureable differences after changing power cord. Curious whether anyone has done that. @yang_hongTransi... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound If you purchase a power regenerator, I assume you do NOT need a better power cord for the regenerator itself. Yes? Because if takes power, confers to DC before producing ’clean’ AC again, I would guess the power coming in can be as dirty as you li... | |
| No right channel in new cartridge I purchased a high-end cartridge and it arrived with one channel dead. The seller assisted in getting it serviced by the distributor and all was fine. The consensus is that a lead came undone during shipping. A moving coil cartridge has EXTREMEL... | |
| Electrostatic Speakers I can whole-heartedly recommend Martin Logans. I've owned ReQuest, Arius i, Prodigy, and CLX. The early ReQuest, required occasional vacuuming of dust to keep quiet-squealing at bay and good HF extension. The Prodigy and CLX were and have been f... | |
| Why Power Cables Affect Sound As an EE I initially chaffed at the notion that a power chord could affect the sound of a piece of equipment because the AC signal is typically rectified and smoothed to DC by capacitors. After being blown away by apparently large improvements in ... | |
| Dr. Feickert Protractor It is an excellent tool. However, be sure to verify the absolute calibration of the pivot to spindle dimension. My protractor was off by about 1mm. A setting of 258mm for a VPI arm, was actually 259mm. Easily acounted for by setting the protracto... | |
| Grey amplifier Imports from Japan? I’ve purchased an Accuphase phono module using Audiocubes successfully. | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? clearthink, As an example, and as a recovered watch addict, people don’t justify expensive watches based on their time-keeping accuracy (rational), and the differences between different high-quality products can be described as minor. While the fe... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? A sort of statement I often encounter in Absolute Sound, and Stereophile reviews is the declaration of an expensive item's (20K turntable) great sound/performance but then compared to a 75K item (tonearm) which is appreciated as better, and the di... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? There is no rational basis for extraordinarily expensive anything. Such items may be scarce, have attention to detail, materials and performance lavished on them but cannot be rationally justified if an individual cannot afford them. Is a Ferrari ... |