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| How do you get past the pops and hiss of LPs? Bob, I would never argue with you about sensitivity to audible noise, this seems to be a personal reaction and is quite subjective. However,you may not like it, but the terms "dynamic range" and "signal to noise ratio" have meanings, though you ar... | |
| Properly pack a Thorens TD 125 MKII for shipping? I can only wish you good luck. I shipped a Rega P3 via UPS ived at the buyers on Friday the 13th. It was packed in it's complete and original Rega packing, which I garner they ship it in, but then it was double boxed in a second, much larger box, ... | |
| How do you get past the pops and hiss of LPs? Rocky, you hanv't heard my modified Wollensak 8-track player, so them's fightin' words. Step outside - 8-tracks don't suck, they rule! Peppy, I will stand by my statement that LP has a greater dynamic range than redbook CD. True, it is gained at t... | |
| Problem with preamp..need direction. It's time to send it back to the manufacturer or a good tech for repair. It does appear to be a power supply problem of some sort. It seems unlikely that you will be able to sort it out yourself. Marakanetz idea will be inexpensive to try and will... | |
| How do you get past the pops and hiss of LPs? Exactly. I do find it interesting that there seem to be a lot of people still into LP replay and we should ask why. If we sweep aside the far fetched reasons like mass hypnosis we are left with a couple of obvious things. It certainly cannot be th... | |
| How do you get past the pops and hiss of LPs? Peppy, we are talking about well recorded sources here; direct to disc recordings have dynamic range well in excess of 100db. There are many severely compressed CDs too, see Stereophile's coverage of the recent release of Floyd's DSOTM and Santana... | |
| Power strip plugging order ? Tks I was just looking at the Super Companion on the Vansevers website. The two outlets closest to the incoming line are marked "amplifier" the next two are marked "analog" and the final two are marked "digital". | |
| How do you get past the pops and hiss of LPs? Inpepinnovations@, I would take issue with your statement that the redbook CD medium has the greater dynamic range. In fact, LP playback has the greater dynamic range. One can hear roughly 15 to 20db into the noise floor on LPs, but on CD replay a... | |
| Problem with preamp..need direction. How bothersome is it really? As far as sound coming out with the volume control down, if it is just a bit, then the control is probably inexpensive and does not track well. Either replace it with a more expensive one, or live with it, it will do n... | |
| SUPER TWEETERS-anybody heard them? Piezo tweeters can really extend response for very little money. The big problem is that current execution of the technology completely throws away phase response. These are among the least phase coherent drivers on the market. They also have a ba... | |
| How do you get past the pops and hiss of LPs? But you do hear tape hiss on a CD sourced from analog tape or one mixed on a noisy board. | |
| SUPER TWEETERS-anybody heard them? I have owned and used both the Sequerra and Apature super tweeters. The biggest benefit was with electostatics that rolled off in the top octave, but even with conventional speakers there was a noticible difference, though it would be a value judg... | |
| How do you get past the pops and hiss of LPs? You will find that, with proper VTA, which is the angle at which the stylus meets the record, the surface noise will be presented in a different plane than the music. For many, though not all, of us our sensory gating mechanisms can easily tune th... | |
| How to make a Technics 1200 M3D sound better? E-mail audiogon user psychicanimal directly. He will give you guidance. | |
| Need inexpensive power line conditioner guidance. P/A, I snoozed and loozed; some dude snaked the one out whilst I was listening to some horrible radio show. So embarassed. I have my eyes on another one though. |