agonanon
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| Noisy pot? A friend of mine ran into a similar problem years ago and ended up ordering some spray from reichelt.de which evidently cleaned up the contacts. It worked so well he now swears by cheapo pots. Unfortunately, I can't remember offhand what the produ... | |
| Test tones on redbook cd ??? The DCAT-3 can be found at the company website where apparently these can be ordered; alternatively, a search will turn up other sources. | |
| Test tones on redbook cd ??? Perhaps the "DCAT-3" (Diamond Cut Audio Test CD's)? | |
| Found an interesting way to compare IC cables... Lately I've been doing the same in my (primarily: DIY) cable experiments (and have also just recently acquired a pair of 580s :0) As a twist in the same vein, you might try as well a pair of Grados (RS60, 80 and upwards) which may even be more use... | |
| IC shielding/directionality - Views? Any input (or a pointer to useful discussion) is very much appreciated. Thanks! | |
| What are the best DIY cables you've heard? Twl, thanks for the lightning reply - you were so fast, you caught me in the turn! I'll build my first pair of ---'s directly with copper 30ga. (If after lugnut's indiscretion your homebrews become famous, how would you like them to be known in th... | |
| What are the best DIY cables you've heard? I'm getting marvellous results from a pair of homebrew interconnects between DAC and amp following Greg Weaver's SST article. The IC I built uses copper magnet wire (0.02 mm^2/~34 AWG), 38mm wide tape (Tesa 4124 clear) with about 30mm spacing betw... | |
| What are the best DIY cables you've heard? Lugnut - Thanks for sharing the Twl recipe. I will try homebrewing it (am sourcing teflon tubing now :P ).Twl - Thank you for your gracious acquiescence to Lugnut's post and sharing feedback.Did you try experimenting with other guages, especially ... | |
| Tube Headphone Amp. Getting Started. BTW: Headphones HD600 (and now experimenting with the front end). Thanks for your input! | |
| Jazz Recommendations I'll just quietly slip into the back of the lecture hall and take notes. Since I forget to bring the books on the reading list, I'll consult the *starters'* list of jazz standards and contemporary jazz classics athttp://amadeus.siba.fi/~eonttone/s... | |
| The best books on music A thread like this deserves to be resuscitated. And books count, so I'll bite. Charles Rosen is probably best known for 'The Classical Style' (1971) and/or 'The Romantic Generation' (1995), but I found his little (114pp) book 'Arnold Schoenberg' (... | |
| Audiogon "RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR" list [Edit: ohlala, of course that's KlempERER re Ludwig vans symphonies who may have been a Klempner too but only dubitably was he ever a dirigent of any water works] | |
| Best single-malt Scotch... Lagavulin seems to me the closest one can come to being overwhelmed by a deluge, a long ebb and tide reeking of peet and smoke without perishing. Almost existential. Otherwise a partiality for Oban, less idiosyncratic, balanced, smooth. Me mate fo... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? Frasier - "A well-meaning, but egotistical, radio psychiatrist devotes most of his energy to solving the problems of those around him, while managing to create most of the problems that plague his own life [...] Frasier is a good man. His heart is... | |
| Audiogon "RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR" list Miles Davis, Ascenseur pour l'echafaud (what no mention? addendum to Some Kind of Blue); Thelonious Monk, Complete Columbia Recordings (offhand); Arnold Schoenberg, Kammersymphonie no. 2; Olivier Messian, Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus; Mary J.... |