viridian
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| Voltage Gain As test reports in the various audio rags clearly show a manufacturers published figure for gain is not always the actual gain of the amp. The situation in the real world often is quite different than on paper yeilding a significantly greater imba... | |
| Pick your favorite, and tell me why... Monk/Trane 2 LP set on Fantasy. Yes, John Coltrane and Thelonius Monk. Nuff said. | |
| Buyer Protection.... ? I think that Jvia's idea of having a local Audiogon member with deep feedback go and inspect the unit is a great idea. A little hard to arrange. I would be happy to do this for any items in the Portland, OR area. Heck, I might learn something to b... | |
| Are there any Audiophile versions of the Eagles..? Thank you Bigjim, I appreciate the info. | |
| Are there any Audiophile versions of the Eagles..? I have seen a gold disk of Hell Freezes Over, different from the XRCD from Asia, Taiwan, I think.It pops up on e-bay from time to time. Does anyone know how this one sounds? | |
| 0dB gain question Kr4 is half right. Although low output impedance for driving the amp is quite important, of perhaps greater importance is the high input impedance offered by active preamps. In a passive preamp the source component is asked to drive the combined l... | |
| Airto Moriera? All of his albums are great; try Promises of the Sun on Arista. | |
| How to store extra turntable belts? VPI recommends storing unused belts in a plastic bag with a light dusting of talcum powder in it, but who knows if this is universally applicable. Your mileage may vary. Why not ask the good folks at Oracle. | |
| Nobody doing thier own experimenting or research? Part of the problem with our hobby is that every change in the system seems to change the sound, but many people lack confidence when it comes to determining if the change is, in fact, for the better. And rightfully so, the variables are endless. ... | |
| what did I do? channel hiss in McCormack DNA 0.5. The best test is to hook the amp up to your speakers and use shorting plugs, RCA plugs where the ground and hot are connected, at the input of the amp, no preamp at all. If you cannot purchase these plugs then just buy some RCA jacks at Radio Shac... | |
| What is the purpose of The point of buying obscenely expensive speaker cable and interconnects is keep the cable manufacturers in the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed and to annoy your wife. | |
| Arm / Cartridge: How to pick the best combo ? Sean,I have found, through experimentation, that the primary low frequency resonance of the cartridge/arm system as defined by the moving mass of the arm and the compliance of the moving system of the cartridge to be much less an issue than higher... | |
| Thiel 1.5's with sound anchor stands? Your speakers, having 6db per octave crossovers have a very limited vertical listening window where the output of the drivers sums correctly and is maximally time coherent. Experimentation is the key here both with raising the speakers off of the ... | |
| How come that when most audiophiles "The only non-linearities I have to deal with are the ones inherent in the driver/cabinet combo." Sez who? What of non-linearities inherent in the speaker/room inteface, or, for that matter, the interaction of the amp's output impedance with the c... | |
| The Fisher 100-R Tuner and MPX -100 adapter ?????? In the dawn of stereo broadcasting, before multiplexing, and for a short time only, somewhere around 1961, the right channel signal was broadcast on the AM dial and the left channel signal on the FM dial. Tuners of this era hence needed seperate t... |