nsgarch
Responses from nsgarch
| Purist Audio, Venustas or Aqueous I second the Venustas, and I wonder if I have the same reasons as Tvad though. The objective differences are as follows, and come right out of the Purist catalog bi-wire spkr cab. for ea. product:1.) Venustas effective ga. = 8AWG Aqueous effective... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Mark, I can't seem to remember if you said what your initial impressions were of your V, but everyone including myself was a little surprised/disappointed with their Trannies at first, until after 50 hours or so. And it just happened again with so... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Mark, my thinking about VTF is somewhat similar to my experiences with SRA: that it's difficult to find any two of the same model cartridge, that are identical in either of those characteristics.You can physically see zero SRA, if you have the pat... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Mark, if your friend has a 60 ohm load preset on his phono preamp (Manley?) that should be ideal since it's only 2 ohms from the optimum (62.5) I'd start at 47 just for comparison purposes, but I think he'll be happiest (after break-in etc.) with ... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Mark, I'd set it up as follows:Tonearm dead level (parallel) to the platter for now. No sense trying to dial in the SRA until the suspension is broken in after at least 150 hours.VTF 2.0 to 2.2g gms. It'll help limber up the suspension quicker and... | |
| BPT vs. Hydra 8- Your thoughts? I suppose there's nothing wrong with reporting/describing one's impressions of two (or three or four) different "power treatment" devices; but unless they are all (operationally) the same kind of device, I think making any comparisons between them... | |
| High Definition CD or HDCD - What is it exactly? Thanks Chuck. Will it say "HDCD" in blue letters across my screen? (Guess there's one way to find out ;-)). | |
| Cartridge selection Yes, use your Seduction for the Technics if it can be so adapted (you won't need the RIAA section for instance. The ARC phono preamps are tube units with higher gain, and a good synergistic match for the LS-7.HO MCs are better than MMs IMO, but st... | |
| Cartridge selection I'm not clear. Do you have a Foreplay linestage or a Seduction phono preamp? (I don't see a Foreplay phono preamp on Bottlehead's site, that's why I'm asking) and your system pics don't show it.Here's what I'd do (without knowing exactly what phon... | |
| High Definition CD or HDCD - What is it exactly? Alpass -- this site has the most extensive HDCD catalog I've run across. It's a Swedish site (I think) but has an English language option:http://www.hifimusic.se/hdcd/?p=home&lang=en. | |
| Speaker cone fading Is the edge foam, or butyl rubber? If foam, they'll probably need new surrounds eventually, so just wait. If butyl, try wiping the surrounds with a cotton pad onto which you've sprayed (just lightly!) a little "spray silicone lubricant" (Auto Zone... | |
| High Definition CD or HDCD - What is it exactly? Well thank God for Tobias (especially), Ghost, and Tbg -- y'all saved me from a lot of typing ;--) So I'll just add a couple of things:First, I highly recommend Keith Johnson's newly ressurected Reference Recordings site: www.referencerecordings.c... | |
| retipping This is the USA distributor for Transfiguration:http://www.profundo.us/If they're too expensive, I'd have van den Hul (USA - no postage) do it. For, I think it's only a couple hundred bucks, you get a vdH stylus and they'll give it a thorough tune... | |
| phono stage break in? Just FYI: The PAD CD is $150 list but only $99 at Music Direct. It is burned in real time, not stamped. It is a full 72 min of computer generated sequences (not exactly "tracks") which "target" different types of electronic "parts" in the system (... | |
| effective mass and cartridge compliance Gee, Uru the cartridgedb website IS down! Let's keep a watch, I hope it comes back ;--) |