albertporter
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| Integrated Amp Jumpers When faced with this choice I went inside the unit and soldered direct with a piece of high grade wire, bypassing the jumpers, jacks and female sockets all together.It can be reversed if need, but you need to be comfortable with doing this or have... | |
| Direct drive/rim drive/idler drive vs. belt drive? Excellent story, mine is much simpler. My Mother and Father picked out Albert Porter for me when I was born and it seemed like a good name for Audiogon as well :^). | |
| Direct drive/rim drive/idler drive vs. belt drive? Mark Kelly (Quiddity).How did you come to choose your moniker? I looked it up: 1. The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it? " The degree of nullity and quiddity." --Baco... | |
| Direct drive/rim drive/idler drive vs. belt drive? QuiddityThe direct effect which you postulate is reduced by the second order low pass filter formed by the belt / platter combination. The maximal velocity variation for a given length change is the product of the radial displacement produced by t... | |
| Direct drive/rim drive/idler drive vs. belt drive? MosinThat said, he owns idlers including the Garrard 301, Commonwealth and others, and he can fix the speed on pretty much anything. Basically, he may be saying that the Garrard needs a good speed control. ;) The Garrard I heard was running on Eur... | |
| Direct drive/rim drive/idler drive vs. belt drive? All this technical discussion reminds me of the numbers war in electronics in the 1980s. If we are to believe any of those specifications the Yamaha receiver is a much better performer than a Lamm. I began with rim drive over 40 years ago and was ... | |
| Covering silver wire for use as a speaker cable Why not clear plastic tubing for an aquarium pump? It would insulate perfectly and is primarily just air dielectric, except where the silver wire occasionally touches the plastic.If you like the sound you could experiment with all the other materi... | |
| copper platters vs. carbon fiber platters vs.? Jake,I assume you reference the TWacustic due to the copper platter in their high end model. In my system the mat is almost as big an effect on sound as the phono cartridge. I have the newest Ttweights copper mat, the Boston carbon fiber, The Funk... | |
| Unipivot and suspended TT? Stanwal, I don't know if your response is to my post or something you were just adding to the thread. I agree the mass of the tonearm is detrimental in the situation you list but I assure you incorrect azimuth is very audible and difficult to get ... | |
| Unipivot and suspended TT? I've run several unipivot arms on suspended tables and they can certainly sound great. I think the controversy arises from the fact that if the table is less than perfect level, the azimuth of the arm is off by that same amount. A unipivot arm see... | |
| EL34 differences in air & stage depth? Ghosthouse, your comment "Couldn't be happier" is what really matters. I have 160 Wing C 6550 on order right now. I think that speaks volumes about how much I respect Wing C. Then again, 160 authentic NOS KT88 Genelex are unaffordable and probably... | |
| EL34 differences in air & stage depth? Jesusa0The Harma E34L appears to be a house brand of Watford Valves, likely a JJ Tesla E34L based on construction and shape. The price at Watford Valves is 14.77 pounds (about $23.50 each US Dollar).For those of us in the USA this tube is availabl... | |
| Killing BluRay, new Oppo BR 83 I've now watched several Blue Ray movies on my Oppo BDP 83. Super short review: Image quality is best I've seen, at least resolution wise. It's speedy at accepting and carrying out all commands. Negatives: Color is not as strong as my Pioneer Elit... | |
| Looking for input on record clamps. Steve,I have not had the pleasure of hearing the Shun Mook or Harmonix in my system. I would love to but last I looked you could buy a nice used turntable for what those clamps sell for :^).With my Walker table and my current Technics I usually pr... | |
| Looking for input on record clamps. Siddh, are you asking what clamp would replace the Walker Proscenium factory clamp and sound better on a Walker? If that's the question the answer is, NONE.The only clamp I've heard that competes is the Harmonic Resolution Technology damper and th... |