viridian
Responses from viridian
| Question concerning db sensitivity It is absolutely true. And the best cars get the worst gas mileage, the best wine is the highest proof, and Patricia Barber is a great singer. | |
| lucinda williams live I have tickets to see her here in Portland, OR; they are a 50th birthday present for my wife. Her birthday is a week from Saturday. Please don't tell! I am giving her a framed promo picture from the "Live At The Fillmore" album, as well. | |
| Sales: truth in weight? My butcher always rests a finger on the scale, perhaps he sells on Audiogon. | |
| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. One thing to keep in mind when cleaning CDs is to wipe linearly from the center hole to the outside edge; if you wipe in a circular motion, scratches can be put into the data stream and will cause long dropouts. | |
| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. El, it is super that you take the time to do your own tests; my hat is off to you. Actually the link does not asses recorded signal into the noise floor, but points out that the noise floor has, by far, the greatest component below 500HZ and measu... | |
| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. Certainly, digital media has greater frequency respons than LP replay at the low end of the spectrum, but at the high end, LP are capable of response in excess of 45K, which easily exceeds redbook CD replay. There is also some compelling research ... | |
| Pro-Ject RM-5 or Xperience I have not heard a 33f for over ten years, but I have auditioned the RM-5 recently and I think that it would be a big step backwards. You will have to spend way more to get a noticibly better phonograph than the Denon. I would put the money into a... | |
| New Vinyl Setup My concern here is that turntables are the hardest things to ship without damage, with the possible exception of large, heavy speakers. The best thing to do is use the zip code search engine off of "my page" and buy locally. Barring that, know you... | |
| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. Tvad, sounds very cool, a family connection to your hobby that you can look at every day. Great stuff! There is one last thing that I like about turntables. As machines, I find them to be quite beautiful. So many of the machines of today have the ... | |
| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. For me, high fidelity is a hobby. That means that I am not averse to taking the time to optimize the setup, hell I enjoy it and find it rewarding, and a bit of ritual - as in cleaning and maintaining records - doesn't bother me either. For me, the... | |
| Technics SL-1200MKII and AT-440MLa, very good "Highway Star", "Smoke On The Water", if you are using the proper mind-altering substances to appreciate "Machine Head" the grooves are probably moving all over the place. "Paranoid" should be next! | |
| Help with tube tester The wire with the cap on it is for tubes that have an anode cap. Most common for audio use are the 807, which is similar to 6L6. VTL made some really nice amps that use them and the classic Stancor amps use them as well. | |
| How good can a mono cartridge be...? A little birdie told me that the excellent Music Maker cartridges from The Cartridge Man are also available in mono versions, these are worth checking out! | |
| How good can a mono cartridge be...? Uraniumcommittee (I love this username), it would be quite understandable to think that these would be long out of production, but many, like Shure, just kept making them all along, and the resurgance in interest in mono recordings, which has prob... | |
| How good can a mono cartridge be...? Actually, there are many good mono cartridges available. Shure, Grado, Lyra, Benz, the Denon 102 mentioned above. I am sure that there are more, they can be found at the Needle Doctor website, among other places. |