eldartford
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| Any feedback on TANNOY? Tannoy has been around since the earliest days of recorded sound. Did you know that in England, the word "Tannoy" is sometimes used in general for "Loudspeaker". | |
| Why do DIY products have less value ? A suggestion...Incorporate yourself as TWL AUDIO DYNAMICS.Hang a sign on your garage. Advertize in Stereophile. Offer your designs for sale at absurd prices. You may not get many customers, but you will get some respect (but you will loose mine). | |
| Top Ten Turntables of All Time?? elizabeth...As it happens, for the first time I have seen a Sony PSX800 turntable for sale: current bid is $115 and we'll see what it sells for. You may be right about the price, even if I am right about the quality of this item.The question is: W... | |
| Top Ten Turntables of All Time?? Elizabeth... I thought this was about good performing turntables, not investments. Actually I have never seen one for sale at any price. Can you direct me to one? | |
| How often do you demagnitize your MC cartridge? It's the chicken that does it. | |
| Top Ten Turntables of All Time?? Sony PSX800. Direct drive, Linear tracking servo-controlled arm, very complex electronics, goes against all the audiophile wisdom. But, it performs flawlessly. Sorry about that. | |
| Top Ten Tuners of all Time?? Luxman T-14. Audio quality is limited only by the quality of the broadcast signal. I think this is true of a number of tuners, but the slim (2") Luxman gets extra points for sheer beauty and layout of controls. | |
| driver moving too much Find out if the problem is feedback or record warp/turntable defect by putting the pickup down on a record while the table is stopped. Tap the record and see what happens.It certainly is a good idea to have the table on a solid base so that vibrat... | |
| Best Universal Player for DVD's , CD's w/ dvd-a The Pioneer DVD 45A (at about $400) really does play both DVD-A and SACD, which some other players mentioned above do not. It is solidly built and sounds good to me...don't be put off by the low price. (Perhaps I should say: don't be distracted by... | |
| why are some cd's so bright sounding It's not a question of "quality" or how much time is spent in mastering the release. The CD sounds that way because the engineer wanted it that way, and the reason is to sound better on non-HI FI playback equipment. Suggestion...use your tone cont... | |
| My Dumb Question of the Day It's called "needle talk". They all do it. Just a guess, but I bet it comes from the compliant vinyl reacting to stylus forces. The stylus wouldn't have enough area to produce audible sound. | |
| Please explain In solid state amps there is an adjustment commonly called "bias". It does not set a level of current, as in a tube amp, but it equalizes current from the complementary set of output transistors so that when there is no signal being amplified the ... | |
| Phono PreBiamplification I am disappointed that only one person out of more than a hundred had any comment on this idea. The audio hobby has changed since I was young. Back then our discussions revolved around technical ideas which you could experiment with, like this pos... | |
| Checking Anti-Skate? In perusing a catalog I happened to note that pickups designed for DJs still track at 5 to 6 grams. Of course DJs do terrible things to their pickups so they need to be built like tanks. | |
| Ohm Walsh speakers; Anyone have any experience The original Walsh speakers (which sean enthuses so much about) are one of two designs that ever "blew my socks off". The other was KLH9 Electrostatics. Now that I could afford the Walsh speakers, and a suitable power amp, they aren't made anymore... |