albertporter
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| cable burn in process Fatparrot. What I hear is (usually) the high frequencies being compressed or rolled off at first startup. Then, after a few hours of break in the top opens up and reveals all the "jagged" errors of new stuff.After enough hours the top sounds good ... | |
| Is Wally tool preffered for Graham 2.2? I agree with the above posts. I sold my WallyTractor in favor of the much less expensive "Cart Align" tool. I preferred the "Cart Align" to both Wally and the Graham set up tools. The Cart Align uses the tracking force of the cartridge during alig... | |
| Bologna OR Baloney How does this work? Please fee Nsgarch, great idea. I think I would prefer the look of gray noodles to most of the commercial versions.Iamsuperking, perhaps the foam or ceramic touching the cables in limited spots effectively work as an isolation device, providing fewer entry p... | |
| Bologna OR Baloney How does this work? Please fee It depends a great deal on the materials covering the floor, what brand of cables, the amount of vibration (proximity) to speakers and if interconnect or speaker cables.I have had improvement with the ceramic cable elevators with Nordost cable but... | |
| cable burn in process I think your correct. New equipment be it preamp, amp, interconnect or speaker cable will sound reasonably good out of the box, turn for the worse after a few hours, eventually sounding much better than where it began.Phono cartridges and speakers... | |
| When will a 60"+ true 1080P plasma be available? As a photographer I read over and over about projectors and how superior they are. I have seen dozens of them and to me, they are all lacking in brightness when compared to LCD or CRT direct view (and even LCD projection).Are there models I've mis... | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone Congratulations Ben, that's a wonderful gesture and a very fine name. I hope your baby boy is blessed with your love of music and your sense of honor and good nature. | |
| Tube experts ---Chime In Do BK testers Lie? In my experience with B&K and Hickok testers, the B&K will fail a tube that the Hickok passes as good.My B&K was the 747, the Hickok was the 752AI have no idea what was going on with the tubes or who the fellow was with ARC, but it's g... | |
| A comparison of Blu Ray vs Hd for picture quality That's a well written article and makes a lot of sense. I particularly agree with the idea of not worrying about replacing DVD players. Even for those of us with a large movie library, it's only a matter of time until HD versions of our favorite's... | |
| Review: Aesthetix Callisto Signature and the KT-66 Tube preamp Cmo,The Mullard (dimple plate) gold pin is what I run in my Aesthetix Callisto. In the Aesthetix Io, the 6922 of choice is the old diamond bottom Telefunken 6DJ8.Oddly enough, the Telefunken does not sound as good in the Callisto nor does the Mull... | |
| Review: Aesthetix Callisto Signature and the KT-66 Tube preamp I have done the KT66 tube substitute for years, I posted this five years ago at Audiogon.http://audiogo1.iserver.net/cgi-bin/forum5.pl?aamps&980918116&read&keyw&zzaesthetixI still have the special tool that will punch the power sup... | |
| Review: Technics SL-1200Mk2 Turntable Eldartford, regarding your comments.This review, and most of the comments, are better than what we (often) get from the professionals writing in the audiophile journals. Please see my post of 5-27-05.Great review Ed, you could write for Positive F... | |
| I bought the Granite for the base for my .... I've had terrible results with granite as a base for HI-Fi equipment but if you must have it, the best thing to buy is a machinist base, designed for a tool maker / machine shop.These cost a fraction of what similar materials sell for in the funer... | |
| What is the "best" of the 5881 Tubes. I like the old stock Tung-Sol 5881's.That being said, I've not tested that tube type in several years. | |
| Tubes On Top Without Getting Ridiculous Unfortunately I agree with Uppermidfi, mixing amps with a speaker as revealing as a Maggie will probably result in less than perfect results.You can go with BIG tube amps or BIG transistor amps and both will give you great results that sound total... |