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| Coupling caps for Rogue m180 darks Audyn Reference VRS Mundorf Supreme What are you hoping to achieve? I like the Mundorf Silver/Oil, but that may have nothing to do with your goals.Are you looking for a cap popularity contest, or do you have a sound quality goal that you are working to achieve? | |
| Klipsch!. The worst speaker company, EVER? I couldn’t listen to Diana Krall, or any of those other jazz lite vocalists that audiophile types listen to, on even the finest hi-fi, YMMV. | |
| What's your go-to cheapie cartridge? Klipsch MCZ-7 Boron.IMHO, the Denon 103 is a much better balanced cartridge than the 103R. | |
| Why do some manufacturers reverse preamp polarity in the first place? Soundstage is an artifact of the recording and reproduction process and is not correlated to the sound heard in the concert hall, IMHO. | |
| Tonearms with no anti-skate adjustment Peter Lederman of Soundsmilth has looked at a lot more cartridges under a microscope than I have. He has said that no anti-skate, or incorrectly adjusted anti-skate causes visible wear that is uneven on stylii.Then again, that arm was designed for... | |
| Why do some manufacturers reverse preamp polarity in the first place? A single gain stage always inverts polarity, would you have the manufacturer add a second gain stage to change it back again? And do you change the polarity of your speakers for each recording the you play? That would be necessary if the goal is t... | |
| Anyone had the equipment customized ? It’s interesting. I don’t really hear of customization spoken about much. Restoration is returning gear to original condition using the same brand and value of parts as the original. Upgrading is changing the manufacturer of the parts that are bei... | |
| Do preamps have a material affect on high level sources? I prefer Mastadon on my dinosaurs. | |
| Isn't a wondeful time to be an audiophile? I preferred the 1970s, but I’m a music lover, not an audiophile, so that may come into play. | |
| Minor Vintage Repair? I could not find a service manual for free on the net, but there are several paper service manuals for sale on the usual auction sites. It might be a good investment, and if you need more extensive work done it may save bench time if you supply it... | |
| Minor Vintage Repair? Sorry, I do not, as I don’t have a 2500 here to look at. There were various designs for those grain of rice bulbs, most do not require soldering. Once you get to it IMHO it will be clear (no pun intended). | |
| DAC measurements explained? All of this is essential reading, but the explanation of digital specific measurements begins on page 5:https://www.stereophile.com/features/112/index.html | |
| Minor Vintage Repair? Blast from the past, I sold many of those back in the day working for University Stereo.I don’t have first hand knowledge of the Tosh after so many years, but the illumination is usually provided by a minuture lamp embedded at the very top of the ... | |
| Audio Technica VM540ML v. N97xe Jico SAS There are, in fact, a large, and a small major radii Shibata cut stylus. The large cut has a 75um major radius, the same as the Microline. The minor dimension of the large Shibata is 6um vs just over 2um for a Microline. How could this possibly tr... | |
| Vinyl***What If*** Fantastic Bill! Thank you for sharing. |