marakanetz
Responses from marakanetz
| Help, I'm going crazy with vinyl noise try to connect directly with no step-up transformer.i know that you'll have large issues with gain but at least(just for test) you're going to hear something and it'll tell you if the noise is comming from the cartridge or from transformer... | |
| Speakers you regret selling Sometimes I regret selling my Vandy 1c for its softness and musicality but when I return to my listening room with Totem Forest I forget all about it! | |
| Audio Shows and Equipment BreakIn The general rule of thumb is that equipment undergoes a break-in -- true.How it impacts the sound? You never know especially if you're auditioning them in different room or CES and you also never know this way if the speaker were broken-in or not.... | |
| The truth about interconnects - can you handle it? HISTORICAL INFORMATION:before 80's people did not hear substantial differences in interconnects as they "hear" it right now since some of them rich the cost of diamond necklace(yo gotta be keddin' if they don't improve sound!)so the hearing abilit... | |
| High End Myth Glossary. Adding to the myth list:--Shooting a fly with 45 Magnum(you never know if you actually kill it).A simple plastic slapper will just do enough. | |
| Killer female vocal recordings-show me the light.. Check out LHasa's albums! Maybe she realy deserved Grammy.She's latino but despite my poor understanding of Spanish I still enjoyed that super-voice. Recording is to the level of Patricia Barber's albums or even better.Seek for remasters of Edit P... | |
| Does highend heavy amps needs ampstands? Elizabeth,Finally! | |
| Does highend heavy amps needs ampstands? All amps especially powerfull ones do have a vibrations and you can't kill it whether you're going to use granite or marble stand.Elevating the amps will add an extra room for heat sinks. I have my amps on my journal table since I needn't any jour... | |
| The truth about interconnects - can you handle it? None denies that cables sound different but by all means when you strip or look inside the mega-priced ones you see just the same industrial grade wires with some phoney information about close to ideal purity that you can easily buy for pennies a... | |
| Some of my favorite songs are...... Dire Straits "Private Investigations"Chris Rea "Song of Love"Mark Nauseef/Jeff Bruce "Language"John Lurie "Yak" | |
| High End Myth Glossary. Ghostrider,Thanks, I'll follow! | |
| Why is balance in my pre inaccurate at low levels? VTL pre-s do not require matched tubes. The small signal tubes run at very low bias current thus have the longest life possible.The volume pot is realy 90% probable cause. | |
| High End Myth Glossary. Jax2,Lookup at least 50 years back to find out how WE300B is $900/pr now and other mega-prices as well. You'll certainly be able to subtract from psychological "psycho" thereafter and plenty of bait for different purposes. | |
| High End Myth Glossary. Tom, with all due respect to you I can tell that I'm different from the one who would bring "crying towel" and despite your wide thick and big experience selling audio equipment, I have placed a large number of scientific and budget measurements o... | |
| High End Myth Glossary. Tsouthworth,You basically need to perform a third experiment: Strip the shield of your old MIT wires and try them one or the other direction.As to the recording onto cassette the pulling strength is different throughout the whole cassette tape len... |