marakanetz

Responses from marakanetz

Band with highest success/talent ratio?
I'll add John Bon Jovi where mentioned ratio approaches infinity with exception of actually having a talent to blast terrible music and have huge success. 
Who's Your Favorite Bass Players; Why?
I've started practicing bass and find Chris Squire a great bassist. He supplies solid fundamentals of music and great bass melody. He's one of the best to follow after when learning. 
Phono-pre: subsonic filter on or off ?
INFRA -- SUB ULTRA -- SUPER are synonimsas well as SUBSONIC or INFRASONIC.Technically you can say SUB RED but it's not common.Not only Carver produced the infrasonic dynamic filter. I've seen that in works of many different electronics designers a... 
Phono-pre: subsonic filter on or off ?
Ptm,I've never seen rumble filter adjustable. It's mostly oriented on sub-sonic frequencies of a large amplitude. Hence the alternate name is SUBSONIC filter.SUB-SONIC means UNDER-AUDIABLE. 
Soundstage, Imaging, Detail & Presence??
Detail is when you can hear mosquito's fartImaging when speakers dissapear.Presence is opposite of absence. 
Phono-pre: subsonic filter on or off ?
In addition to Viridian I'd turn it on when I play warped records. 
Disappointing Evening
My little son often get frustrated when the girl he likes would not follow him to his bunch of bionicles he built. Does this hobby create infantility? 
do burnt CD copys sound as good as originals?
What I've realy realized that sometimes there are errors in burning that cause skipping.Don't really know if it's CD quality or software? I used iTunes -- horrible, but Media Monkey is much better. 
Disappointing Evening
You should get Dual LP changer to add to your main joy and pride system. 
Tube amps and speaker matching
I will rephrase for over 100dB the following way:Low-power tubes or SS preferably with balanced connection. 
Which speakers to get for a Very Large Room.
If I would switch from Aerial I'd go with previously suggested Nola (Viper Reference in particular). 
Parallel Capacitors-Theoretical Question
The other safe way is to measure the actual capacitance of the original one and than choose out of many to match exactly. 
Parallel Capacitors-Theoretical Question
If you decide to go with single cap different from 13uf, you'll simply change the crossover frequency slope.In case of parallel caps you'll simply have larger tolerance.The best way is to get a number of caps and choose one(s) that would match the... 
Is it possible to get Hi-end sound ??
ipod classic; behringer headphone amp; sennheiser px200. <$100 
My wifes birthday present - a turntable
I'd like to write a story about it and publish it!