folkfreak
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| Tonearms: Ripoff? High end tonearms, perhaps even more so than almost any other hi fi item, are artisan crafted works of art. Yes, there is a science to the geometry of a tonearm, but once you have mastered that the specifics of a design come down to materials and ... | |
| Cost of Shipping Records Thats a welcome outcome @joenies I'm glad MD did the right thing. I generally find them a very fair firm to deal with, they're reversed orders I've made in error for me before now (even after they ran the card) and also dealt with these sorts of s... | |
| Speaker vibration isolation Extensive discussion on this topic here. I've since moved to Magico M3s with MPods which perform the same isolation role. I'd certainly never go back to a spike based solutionhttps://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/speaker-isolation-experience-with... | |
| Cost of Shipping Records Here is what I suspect happened. MD defaults to an express shipping option unless you actively select otherwise (even if the free shipping applies). The rate you were quoted was an express rate (i.e. USPS Priority Mail or FedEx 3 day). You should ... | |
| Is this out there Among more recent issues Karine Polwart’s recent “A Pocket of Wind Resistance” is a masterful combination of words, music and natural sounds telling a compelling story and a superb (and moving) audio experience to boothttps://karinepolwart.bandcam... | |
| Is the Vinyl Revival well and growing? @n80 - hmmm, last time I was in the store I purchased 15 LPs for $80 ... I don't need a return policy at those pricesOn the other hand in another store I purchased a $100 LP (first pressing early 70s folk) -- that one I had them play for me! I'm n... | |
| Is the Vinyl Revival well and growing? My current favorite is just across the river from you in St Johns - Vinyl Resting Place, great stock of folk and allied music and dirt cheap prices ... but maybe I should keep quiet and save all the good stuff for me 😉 | |
| How to assess and quantify system improvement and changes? My problem with trying to quantify this sort of thing is that in why experience the process is very non linearBy this I mean it goes something like ... "My systems sounds great, can't imagine it getting much better (diminishing returns etc etc)"In... | |
| A New Ground -- Benefits of introducing the Synergistic Research Active Ground Block SE @sleepwalker65 I’m more than happy to welcome you to come and listen to my system here in Portland. You’ll not only hear the effect of the various tweaks but also how such adjustments as changing where physically they are located has direct and re... | |
| A New Ground -- Benefits of introducing the Synergistic Research Active Ground Block SE @sleepwalker close reading of this thread will have identified instances where grounding of passive equipment (ie stands) and ones not in any way in the signal chain ( ie the Herzan) bring clear and obvious benefits. The claim that this is all dow... | |
| A New Ground -- Benefits of introducing the Synergistic Research Active Ground Block SE Just wanted to post some musings in additional impacts of getting grounding right with unepexected benefits from the oddest of places.While I’m still getting great results from the SR active blocks as my primary ground solution I have started to a... | |
| Beware of new material claims - the case of graphene Geoff -- to quote your original posting on this threadGiven that real Graphene is (defined as) one molecule thick and that layer upon layer of Graphene is really no longer Graphene, but still might be better than X, one imagines lots of care is re... | |
| Nordost Serial Numbers Just to muddy the waters there is also genuine Nordost that does not have serial numbers, even if it should. For example cable cut down from longer lengths, even if done by Nordost with their connectors, may not have a S/N, and certainly not if do... | |
| Beware of new material claims - the case of graphene @soundermn correct -- one has to assume that everything that is claimed in audio is bunk, let our ears judge and leave the marketing sales pitch in the dustbin where it belongsThe point of posting a link from a well regarded authority in the field... | |
| DCS Vivaldi stacks vs Esoteric Grandioso G1, D1, P1 stacks Sorry @caphill that was a rushed response. Hopefully you have a chance to check out my system. My experience with adding the Mutec is described here -- the optimization via footers and ancillary cables is key -- with these included it's a $10K add... |