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| Classic speakers to hunt down used The New Advents are a classic and still sound great. Make sure the foam surrounds of the woofers are intact, as they tend to rot after 10-15 years. I owned mine for 25 years, replaced the woofers once, and sold them here on Audiogon to a guy who c... | |
| Info wanted on George Wright AU-1000 12BH7 preamp I own a used Wright Sound WLA12A and have corresponded with George a number of times. He is sometimes slow to reply due to his being a very small business, but he is always courteous and helpful when he finds the time. Here's the address I use:inf... | |
| Does size really matter? :- Doug, Raul,I agree completely that many factors (not just one in isolation) need to be considered when choosing a cartridge, but how is stylus size and profile any more or less a technical measurement than cartridge mass, compliance, or output? Al... | |
| Anyone have a stock Rega armstub for a 250/300? Gregory Kerry is selling Rega armstubs right here on A'gon:http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?anlgtnrm&1144245115 | |
| Well Tempered lab I agree with Focusedfx, the Stanalog fluids are cheap enough that it makes no sense to use anything else. Here's the link:http://store.yahoo.com/stanalog/accessories.htmlI've found George Stanwick to be very helpful when I've had questions about m... | |
| The iPod and the Audiophile I agree with Mapleleafs3. I love my iPod and use it all the time, but it's not up to audiophile standards, and probably never will be. Apple doesn't really want you hooking the iPod up to your home stereo - that's why there's no digital output. Th... | |
| Does size really matter? :- Doug,The pictures certainly dramatize the difference in styli - it's stunning. Are you sure all 4 were done at the same magnification? Based on the revised calculations, I wouldn't expect the visual differences to be so dramatic.David | |
| "Streaming Audio' vs. HDRadio For a home system I agree 100%, as long as you can get the content you want on the Internet. If you're station-specific, there will always be gaps as most commercial broadcast stations don't stream and won't for the foreseeable future, as they're ... | |
| Does size really matter? :- Well, Opalchip,That certainly puts a different cast on things, doesn't it? So now the dimensions of the Sumiko, converted to um, are 7.5 x 17.5. That's quite a difference! It was the huge discrepancy that prompted my original question. So the Sumi... | |
| Does size really matter? :- Dougdeacon,Maybe I lack imagination, but I'm having a hard time picturing the shape of the Zyx stylus you describe. Any chance you could upload the pictures your friend took of the Zyx and the others? It would be educational for all of us.As to ot... | |
| Does size really matter? :- Nsgarch,Occasionally my accounting education proves useful. :-)Thanks for the info on different stylus profiles. I guess then the question is how comparable the stylus dimensions are when the styli have varying profiles. Dougdeacon has seen clear ... | |
| "Streaming Audio' vs. HDRadio Unclejeff,I see you've posted to other HD radio threads in the past. If some of the posters in those threads are correct in their assumption that HD radio is at most 96Kb, I think that explains why HD radio is inferior to a good Internet stream. A... | |
| proper burn in for cd player Low volume? If we're talking about burning in the CD player only, why does your amp even need to be on? How would the CD player know the difference? | |
| "Streaming Audio' vs. HDRadio Pabelson,While I agree the choice of codec makes a difference, the problem is we rarely get to make that choice in the streaming radio world. I agree that at the same bitrate, AAC beats MP3 - Ogg Vorbis probably beats both. But I'm not aware of an... | |
| "Streaming Audio' vs. HDRadio The determining factor here is definitely the bitrate of the stream. If you have dialup, it's impossible to get a high quality stream as the bandwidth just won't support it. My experience is a 64Kb stream is listenable on computer speakers at work... |