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| Adcom? Sounds like someone’s been watching too much RT TV. I’m pretty sure Lockheed Martín, Northrop Grumman and Boeing are quite capable of building aircraft electronics. In fact I imagine there are laws prohibiting the use of foreign made electronics i... | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! I submit that rapping or knocking the stand or the iPad seismic app is actually ineffective for determining whether a particular stand design is effective or whether seismic vibration is getting into the component, especially a turntable. First, a... | |
| Mapleshade Isolation: Does Nothing? Coupling or isolation? You decide. 🙄 I grant you one thing Isolation-wise that thick maple boards do - that is resist bending forces, I.e. rotational forces. So, yes, there is some isolation. Holiday tip: don’t scratch the maple board with your fi... | |
| DACs and bass response? Almost identical to solid state? Whoa! Hey! What?! Yeah, right. | |
| Why does my system now have shrill top end. At the risk of repeating myself, this appears to be very much a circuit focused group. It seems my earlier post intimating the problem of the “shrill top end” could be *something else entirely,” something out of the blue, was taken down hard. You ... | |
| HOW TO POSITION 2 PAIRS OF SPEAKER FOR ALTERNATE LISTENING There was a similar suspicion that telephones and cell phones “resonated” when in the same room with a speaker demo, but that turned out to be something more uh, unspeakable. I.e., it not (rpt not) the tiny telephone or cell phone speaker that was... | |
| The new Synergistic Research BLUE fuses .... Hey, that’s how it goes sometimes. 😛 | |
| The new Synergistic Research BLUE fuses .... Innocent question: How do you know a fuse blows unnecessarily? A fuse blows, any fuse, because the energy, the current, for whatever reason, exceeded the fuse’s capability. It did it’s job. I suspect it would take a lot of effort to get to the bot... | |
| Can cables of any cost and quality provide bass response missing in my B&W speakers? Polarity is a good one. But first you need to verify the system is in correct polarity then try to find a source that’s also in correct polarity. If the source is CD it ain’t that easy to find one that’s correct. Most of them aren’t. Cable directi... | |
| Can cables of any cost and quality provide bass response missing in my B&W speakers? Cables can vary considerably in frequency response, including bass response. Some cables are bass heavy, some are bass shy. Some sound rolled off, sound have midrange suck out, we don’t know why. (Rhyme alert!) One tip is try reversing the cables ... | |
| Lowering the noise floor Here some (uncontroversial) sources of noise or distortion that might not have been mentioned. 1. The induced magnetic field produced by the large transformer that extends outward to all electrical components and wiring in proximity.2. The mechanc... | |
| Review Audioquest Hurricane (part 1) Just for the record Einstein never said insanity is repeating the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Why would he? It doesn’t make sense in any context he would ever make such a statement. The internet is clogged up with mi... | |
| Review Audioquest Hurricane (part 1) Wow! Hey! Do we have a match?! Einstein said the world is not trial and error. He disagreed with the premise that the universe is probabilistic. He never got on board the whole quantum mechanics train. Do we have a match? Whoa! Wait a second! Back... | |
| The new Synergistic Research BLUE fuses .... Another charming characteristic of the Austin Healey 3000 was the brake clutch master cylinders were essentially in the same cylinder. Thus, as what happened to me whilst motorizing down the road at 60 mph, when the master cylinder fails you lose ... | |
| Audiogon is not responding to multiple inquiries What?! Wow! For a second I said Audiogon is not responding to multiple injuries. You know, what with the level of hostility and angst on some of the threads recently. 😬 |