folkfreak
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| Audioquest Eagle Eye Digital Cable - how to use Like all AQ DBS cables the Eagle Eye has a battery pack with a set of (often obscure and hard to source) batteries that should be left connected at all times. As @mental notes the button is for periodic battery life testing. Frankly if you leave t... | |
| Primal Scream- Give Out But Don't Give Up- The original Memphis Sessions @mikld -- respectfully as Primal Scream formed 4 years before the Afghan Whigs (1982 vs 1986) I think you have your causality inverted :-)But more seriously they're both good examples of those halcyon late 80s days we all grew up in! | |
| USED RECORD GRADING- What's the Problems? While the current grading regime is far from perfect I can’t see how any alternative is better. Especially as each of us is different in terms of what we expect. For example I’m really quite tolerant of tics and even light scratches but even a hin... | |
| Music similar to Mike Oldfield I’d say Hergest Ridge or Platinum, but suspect you may prefer the latter (more song oriented) | |
| Speaker Cables and Carpet All of the above is correct but will not exactly give the "cleaner look" you are after. One solution is to run the cables under the floor (assuming we are not talking a concrete slab). You can actually then get a nice drape and few if any points o... | |
| Digital Microscope advice SRA It can be done -- but is a PiTA and also can be next to impossible depending on your stylus profileMy detailed methodology is presented herehttps://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/vt.mpl?f=vinyl&m=1084171&VT=TSince then however I've moved on to tw... | |
| Life of KT150 tubes on ARC Amps Definitely replace well before failure. There are many horror stories of the effects of tube failure in ARC amps. One of the best things about the VTLs I own is how well they handle tube flame outs, taking down a fuse only with lots of on board di... | |
| Any advice on buying quality vinyl How are you able to determine what is an original pressing?thats what Discogs is for, and also the vast majority of sellers there are reliable and of course you get full pricing data. Even if buying from other sources you should use it to check pr... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Where do you set the volume on your Ref10? Unity gain is around 60, if you are above that then you are tapping into the 12dB of gain (balanced) provided. Frankly how quickly you get to the desired volume setting is irrelevant as it’s a function o... | |
| Audio Research Ref 5 SE ting noise I experienced exactly the same behavior with my ARC Ref 40. New tubes, old tubes, dampers including Herbies or not, it’s just endemic to the design so don’t worry about it | |
| the Garrard 301 plater is concaved. Most platters are slightly concave. Leveling them is easy as long as you align the level on a tangent to the outside edge. Of course you should be using a nice long level anyways! | |
| New Rega Planer 8 (P8) Turntable - Apheta 2 Cartridge Combo - Thoughts @fsmithjack so thinking some more about your situation I think you can go a couple (or three ways)Path I -- go all out for an "analog" as possible representation of state of the art LP playback. This would match the Verdier with the Schick and add... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! @fsmithjackThe combination of the Schick 12 on the Verdier would be a classic, especially with a copacetic cartridge such as a Miyajima however this will sound absolutely nothing like your digital setup. Do you already own several thousand LPs or ... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! @fsmithjack -- Verdier are certainly very nice tables but they are far from easy to set up if you are not experienced in the black art of TT setup -- especially with the stand alone motor and thread arrangement. As you can tell from the photos the... | |
| Attenuator & Transformer for Moving Coil cartridge I'm not sure a 1:15 would be that much of a problem -- the XLPS-V3 appears to have plenty of overload margin -- provided your preamp is comfortable with the level presented it may workA more problematic issue may be load matching from cartridge to... |