eldartford
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| Help with cartridge loading. . . And, when you have driven yourself half-crazy diddling with the load resistance, you can go the rest of the way to fully crazy by playing with capacitance.My old Tandberg 3008 preamp has three resistance settings (100K, 47K, and 33K) and three cap... | |
| Am I the only one who thinks B&W is mid-fi? The only B&W speakers I have used are a little set of 550 (6.5 inch woofer in sealed box and titanium dome tweeter). These were when my living accomodations were greatly downsized. I now have an array if three MG 1.6, plus other stuff, and I l... | |
| When to replace tubes on a CD player? Some tubes, in some circuit applications last much longer than others. I am guessing, but don't these tubed CD players just use a tube stage for the output. In such a "cathode follower" circuit, tube characteristics are not critical, so, in preamp... | |
| DVD Player Evolution OK...the SACD playback is better. At more than double the price, it ought to be. The improvement is most evident in one disc, "The Sound of Glory" (Telarc SACD60579) which is the Morman Tabernacle Choir. (I have suggested this disc as a good worko... | |
| Which speakers excel at low volume? Your problem would be greatly reduced if you got yourself an old-design preamp with "Loudness" compensation. If you can't do that, don't be afraid to use tone controls or an equalizer. "Loudness" compensation is really best because the equalizatio... | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? Bmw328iproject...Take a look at my post "Multichannel and why". Your reaction to multichannel is typical of people who have not experienced the full potential of the media, but have been exposed only to stupidly mastered discs.Multichannel will su... | |
| Which speakers excel at low volume? Earphones. | |
| How do you clean your speaker grills? I wonder why they use silk? I think that silk has a tendency to pick up and hold a static electric charge, and that would attract dist. Good old loose-weave burlap is cheap and withstands any cleaning method. | |
| Combined speakers yeild even better performance "Stacked" speakers, usually of the same model, is an idea with a long and favorable history. Apart from lowering the power level at which the speakers opearate, you have taken one step towards a "line array". Screen speakers derive much of their g... | |
| Isolation/coupling: basics? Johnmcelfresh...Right on! | |
| DVD Player Evolution Sogood51...Yes, the Panasonic has progressive scan. I never used it for any serious high quality video application, so I can't comment on that. I have seen others comment that Panasonic stuff if pretty good. They have two similar models DV-30 and ... | |
| Why Does A Concrete Floor/Spiked Metal Rack... Unhalfbricking...As you may have guessed, I spent some time in NZ as a child, and still have the right to reactivate NZ citizenship. You have a great country.I think that the worst NZ quake some years ago was near you in Dunedin. Seismic activity ... | |
| Isolation/coupling: basics? Vibration is bad, except in loudspeaker cones. Isolation and coupling are good. But at some point, the law of diminishing returns sets in. My equipment does not require the extreem measures which some other folk find necessary. | |
| Isolation/coupling: basics? Sean...And I'm not saying that you are wrong either, (about sonic effects) but that the technical explanations which heve been put forward don't seem adequate. I will remain a skeptic until one of the following happens:1. An objective test of some... | |
| Isolation/coupling: basics? sean...When someone asks a question that we can't answer off the top of our head we generally say "send us your data". So: what evidence exists (other than anicdotal) that CD copied at low speed "sound better" and play more reliably?In this case I... |