oldears
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| Best Headphone system under $1000??? The system I use and can therefore recommend is Focal Elears and Schiit Jotunheim. | |
| Help - I've Got the Dreaded Transformer Growl.... I'll submit a 3rd choice. If it has a toroidial transformer, see if you can find a technician to reorient the transformer to a minimum noise position. | |
| Unbalaned to Balanced The only choice I see is to use an unbalanced cable to the unbalanced input on the amp. There is no advantage to try to adapt your cable to the balanced input. | |
| Confusion on amplifier impedance Normally for differentially baIanced amps the impedance doubles for a balanced input. The Musical Fidelity manual only gives the 50 kohm spec. Reading the manual leads me to think they tout balanced connections, but I see no remarks to lead me to... | |
| Stroboscopic disk sets wrong speed for turntable? It is for the first 3 tunes where one of the tape machines ran slow. As the playback for mastering was on a different machine, these tunes are sharp on the early lps.This was corrected later and is explained on the columbia legacy jazz cd that I h... | |
| Stroboscopic disk sets wrong speed for turntable? I presume you are counting on having perfect pitch to determine if the speed is correct. This is a wonderful gift!In any case, with the strobe disc, be sure to use an incandescent lamp as mentioned before. As a cross check, use a test lp such as ... | |
| Has anyone compared Ayre K-1x to Pass X-1 I can comment on the Pass X-1 to the Ayre K-5xemp. The K-5 was the last piece to give me a full Ayre rack, and I thought it a little better than the Pass X-1 at the time, but I was going to change anyway.So I put the Pass back in the system today ... | |
| Balanced headphone cable "Guess I been told!" Obviously no one is interested in cheap solutions on Audiogon. Yes, I am aware of Head-fi. I found photos of a bunch of nice woven DIY cables, and of course reviews of the Jotunheim and the Elears...and a bunch of stuff for sa... | |
| DC Offset Blocker/Killer - where to buy in the USA A toroidial transformer can hum simply because of not being properly installed or positioned. I had a BAT tube preamp which hummed and left it with a repair tech. He called and said he had checked it out and it measured fine. I replied that the hu... | |
| Will A new DAC improve the sound of my Cary 306/200 CD Player Note that you are not listening to the DAC, but the output stage. You may be able to find a more modern DAC, but you will have to pay a lot for an output stage which betters the one in your CARY. | |
| Pangea AC outlets I tried, as best I can remember the pangea mid-priced outlets a couple years ago. They used non-standard hardware. The screws for the AC cables were too short to grip 12 ga wire, so they would only work if back-wired. The screw for the cover was t... | |
| Two Protractors - Only One Aligns I stand by my remark, and I agree the mint makes this easier to accomplish. | |
| Two Protractors - Only One Aligns You have good advice from lewm. The mint is valid only for a given tonearm length and offset angle, provided that the stylus overhang distance has been set accurately. It is a convenience item. It is not more accurate than the TTB gauge, it is jus... | |
| Bach Double Violin Concerto Just played it a few days ago...RCA Living Stereo SACD/hybrid reissue with Heifetz/Primrose. Also includes the Brahms violin/cello Op 102 and The Mozart violin/viola K.364. | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD My biggest shock in audio (many years ago, and before digital) was when a Linn dealer, unable to convince me that his Linn was better than my top of the line Denon, offered me a VPI suspension base at half price. I took it home and put it under my... |