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| Our home system: How good it is? Elinor wrote:-"When the Vienna Philharmonic plays in Carnegie Hall and I attend a couple of concerts, it is tough to listen to my audio system the next day."Whenever I attend Symphony concerts in the Sydney Opera House, it is a pleasure to return ... | |
| Our home system: How good it is? Shadorne says:-"I am also stunned by how many expensive systems have a listening position that is a couch with its back up against a wall. It just floors me."Apart from stating that "it's just obvious" or "I've heard the differences", can you plea... | |
| SME V, Tri-Planar or Phantom B-44 Hi Speedy and Dgad and also Raul. Good to see you all back!I agree with you Dgad about the differing experiences and sound which can be derived from identical components......just listen to the horrors at HiFi shows with expensive exotic equipment... | |
| Amp burn in time..just being on or music played? Some of the longest break-in periods I've encountered are with tone-arm wires where 200 hours annoyed the hell out of me.But c'mon Albert.........941 hours!!!????The 1 hour made a difference??! | |
| Record is noisier after cleaning: I also found that my records were noisier after using the X2000 fluid from Hannl. Switching to the L'Art du Son fluid from France was an improvement as was increasing the final rinse with distilled water.When I switched to pure steam cleaning (as ... | |
| SME V, Tri-Planar or Phantom B-44 Dgad wrote:"It is important to know how to setup a tonearm a use it over a period of time. A short test will not be an accurate measure of how the cartridge will sound. The Schroder takes patience & time to fine tune. Several hours. You need t... | |
| Speaker shock absorbers Why aren't you using spikes? Do you imagine most speaker manufacturers include them for decoration?Spikes actually 'decouple' the speakers from the low-frequency structure-bourne feedback able to be carried in most timber-framed floors. These larg... | |
| Steam cleaning records 2 Madfloyd, has your steamer got the nozzle with the right angle downturn at the end which allows you to keep the steamer body vertical?If you only have the straight nozzle, you would be tilting the steamer and thus uncovering the bottom element lea... | |
| Need Amp Recommendation Halcro DM58 Monoblocks not only have the greatest midrange of any SS amp I have heard, but also the deepest, truest and best controlled bass as well as the sweetest distortion-free treble. The Rockport speakers I have heard, sounded far better dri... | |
| Steam cleaning records 2 Crem1, I took out a record which I bought several years ago for $8.00 by Clifton Chenier "King of the Bayous". This vinyl had so many marks on both sides, it was impossible to even see the scratches, but when both sides were played, the noise leve... | |
| Most transparent amp you've heard? Atmosphere puts it well......"Ultimately transparency turned out to be "a lack of audible distortion, which would otherwise mask detail".I have the Halcro DM58 Monoblocks which have ultra low-distortion as their main aim. I also have the Halcro DM... | |
| Steam cleaning records 2 Does anyone use steam cleaning ALONE? In other words, without the additional steps of cleaning fluids and rinse off? | |
| Triplanar arm level w/right VTA for ZYX Universe? I have the ZYX Universe in the 12" DaVinci Grandezza on a Raven AC-3 and I found in comparison to the sound of the Dynavector DV1s on my other arm (Continuum Copperhead), that a better life and balance for the Universe was found to be with an elev... | |
| Subwoofer Advice For Stereo Music System, Not HT I second what Pacific_island and Samhar have said.The Vandersteen 2wq Subs are sealed boxes (not ported) and so the bass is real and tight (not bloated and full like the ported designs).Having 2 of them as a stereo pair not only will give you the ... | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? Thanks Davidsss,I'll look around. |