albertporter
Responses from albertporter
| The BEST system you've ever built !!!! Rayhall, sorry for the slow response. Do you and everyone else want the full blown details on the Callisto and all the tests? Otherwise, I can give you my e-mail address and/or telephone number. | |
| Shelf Material Hi Redkiwi. I just went through a similar situation in my own system. The sound that I found worked best for me was suggested by a turntable manufacturer. There is a food grade solid hard rock Maple butcher block shelf, that is factory fitted and ... | |
| Vinyl vs. CD Have we forgotten that Mar00 has posted a legitimate question concerning his choices in playback? It would be informative to all of us if we could respond with hard, clear information as to how to improve our systems. Many of you have experiences ... | |
| POWER: conditioners vs filters vs cords I will cast my vote along with Redkiwi, Garfish and Marcy. I have had similar experiences with treatments, and I have tried more than a half dozen in last few years, only to be disappointed. Only upgrading the primary electrical service to your ho... | |
| Top Ten Turntables of All Time?? Not in any particular order, Basis Mk4 (or 5), VPI TNT, Walker Proscenium, Rockport Cirrus, Immedia RPM, SME 20, Goldmund Reference, Versa Dynamics, and probably for sheer popularity and/or value, the Well Tempered and the Linn. Fortunately, there... | |
| Analog vs Digital If enough Audiogon posters actually agreed that a particular digital rig would compete with analog, I would like to find a way to get one to audition. Interestingly, people that own analog (turntables), Seem to argue much less about the difference... | |
| Where can I find a Wallytractor? I don't know where you can find a Wallytractor, however I had one and sold it. There is a better system than the Wally for setting up pivotal tonearms. My experience was with a Graham 2.0, but I am sure that the results would be similar with other... | |
| Vinyl vs. CD Unfortunately, both formats are necessary. I already stated that the majority of new music is not released as LP. It would indeed be a shame to miss out on all of the new music, some of which is excellent. Anyway, Carl's description is accurate as... | |
| Vinyl vs. CD I have avoided entering this fray because of the more than 100 emotional posts at a previous CD/LP posting, which began harmlessly as a similar topic. I am not surprised that there are those of you who have noise problems with LP. The LP format re... | |
| Top Ten Speaker Cables of all time?... I have compared several of these cables, and as usual, my vote goes to Purist Audio. The Dominus RLS being first choice. Next would come the standard Dominus (non RLS). Yes, I have heard them. I own them and they are worth what they cost, at least... | |
| Best Audio Related Story (or joke). In my days of retail, a customer came into our audio store with a (then current) tube type receiver that was producing distorted output. The (other) older salesman that I respected so much says to the customer, "No need to send it to repair just y... | |
| Best Audio Related Story (or joke). OK, to show I'm in the spirit of this whole thing, here is my offering. The symphony orchestra was performing Beethoven's Ninth. In the piece, there's a long passage, about 20 minutes, during which the bass violinists have nothing to do. Rather th... | |
| Anti-skating question Your choice to use the sonically-based setting is correct. A grooveless LP adjustment cannot take into consideration the velocity forces encountered by the stylus in the groove of a actual LP. To confuse this issue even more, the azimuth and track... | |
| Who R U? I am 57, and fell in love with music when I was about 11 years old. I remember the old tube radio we had, and the challenge of trying to tune it for best sound (guess I was a tweak then too). My degree is in fine art, I worked for a number of year... | |
| Tube vs Solid State - Comparable Output? There are speakers that present a difficult load at both ends of the (frequency) and impedance range. Soundlab Ultimate Ones are are an example I am familiar with. The are about a 30 ohm load in the deep bass, but only 2.5 ohms in the extreme high... |