atmasphere
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| Neutral electronics are a farce... Electrons carry charge, whereas the music signal is an electromagnetic EM wave so it (the signal) must travel in a conductor at near lightspeed. In order to travel at that speed the wave must be, physically, photons, not electrons. The electron... | |
| Neutral electronics are a farce... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon-From the page:A photon is massless,[Note 3] has no electric charge,[12] and is stable.However it also states that it is a form of EM radiation.However the signal in a cable is not carried by photons. A better c... | |
| Neutral electronics are a farce... Geoff, its really obvious that you did not read any of the links to basic information about the nature of EMI and RFI. Don't worry about me, you still have to get 'yet on the same page' with some of those basic rules to which those links referred.... | |
| Is New Vinyl Exempt from Loudness Wars? there is still the problem that very few people have the playback equipment needed to track it well much less not have the stylus jump the groove. So it only makes sense to produce such a product at higher cost and profit margin since only a... | |
| High frequency distortion? I recommend a complete setup on the arm- set the stylus overhang, check the rake angle, set the tracking weight, etc. Use a protractor to see the overhang; you can't do that any other way! | |
| Tonearm recommendation There are two kinds of damping used in tone arms. One is damping of the arm tube- in this case its impossible to overdamp it, except that there might be the issue of adding too much mass to the arm!The other is to damp the **motion** of the arm. T... | |
| Speaker Pairing to Tube amp (Please help) You might check out Audiokinesis- Duke's speakers are very easy to drive as his efficiency ratings are often higher than 95db 1 watt/1 meter and they are also benign loads for tube amps.He is now in the greater Dallas region. I'm pretty sure he ha... | |
| How to repair or replace a power transformer? Sometimes a power transformer can have design issues- such as a spot in the part where a winding makes a bend that causes the insulation to fail. That can lead to windings shorting, the transformer thus running hotter so more windings short and so... | |
| Neutral electronics are a farce... (I happen to think Geoff was in the middle of making a very good and valid point about magnetic fields here originally before he was so shrewdly interrupted ;-)He got interrupted because he didn't understand how magnetic fields worked. This was ... | |
| Tonearm recommendation I guess my post had as much effect on the argumentative nature of the discussion as a loud burp. I can stop any time I want to. | |
| Is New Vinyl Exempt from Loudness Wars? while the cutting lathes are truly magnificent machines and properly maintained stand the test of time beautifully… The format itself was not made to reproduce the kind of loud and often distorted music we have today.Vinyl is an analogue format... | |
| What is the best OTL out there? I hope it arrives in good shape!Our Michigan dealer has Paragons (if I recall right, the big one and the little one). He says our amps work fine with them. I've not experienced it myself- but you could ask him- he's the guy that makes the Classic ... | |
| OTL amplifiers The advantage is this:Its not possible to build and use an autoformer with the performance of the ZERO if you don't start with an amplifier that does not already have a fairly low output impedance and does not put DC through the winding of the tra... | |
| question about ss or tubes Grados do fine with detail- just like any other cartridge, care and feeding is important (IOW they have to be set up properly). When was the last time you got the tubes tested in your Quicksilver? Maybe they just need replacement? | |
| Latest Absolute Sound The latest issue has at least one review of an amplifier that costs under $5K. |