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| Ground loop with Miyajima Premium mono I hate to pop the bubble here, but there is no way that one ground in a cartridge is causing a hum on account of a ground loop!You can prove this easily enough by tying the minus outputs of a stereo cartridge together- no hum will result! If one c... | |
| Best speakers in the 3000 -5000 range Audiokinesis )http://www.audiokinesis.com/ Makes speakers in this price point that perform well beside speakers costing multiples more.They are easy to drive and rather full-range, going easily into the lower 30s or upper 20s, which is hard to fin... | |
| Do you ground your bearing? If the bearing in your turntable isn't grounded, you are missing a bet. If the bearing isn't grounded, it and the platter can generate a small amount of electricity as it spins past the magnetic field of the cartridge. | |
| world's best preamp closest to real sound stage Hmm. You can't fix things downstream with better speakers if your preamp can't do the job, no matter how much you spend. | |
| RFI from steel TV bracket? Hifihvn makes a good suggestion. You might be surprised how good some of Radio Shack's cables actually are.Now. Since you are running single-ended cables, if there is a hum source (like the primitive transformer thing I mentioned), even if the cab... | |
| What are some good tube amps that rock? KT88's? KT-88s and 6550s are supposed to be a little different. The 'KT' part stands for 'kinkless tetrode' as there was supposed to be no 'kink' in the linearity curve. These days though, KT-88s and 6550s are pretty much the same thing.The B&W is a V... | |
| Which is more accurate: digital or vinyl? A bit off topic here, but it seems to me that a lot of classical musicians spend a heck of a lot of time working on their "tone".Electric guitarists do too! Like crazy- very picky as well. | |
| RFI from steel TV bracket? What happens if you unplug the interconnects from the inputs to the amps? Do they still buzz?Right now I'm sticking to my original theory, only substitute 'interconnects' for 'speaker cables', and since the ICs are single-ended, this makes a lot m... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy That is one thing about the original Empire table that they got right- the platter and the motor mounts are not floating with respect to each other. Wow and flutter on even the first models had excellent specs. The motor on those machines are also... | |
| Slight Tube 'Whistle' - Help? That sounds like a warm-up issue that can be associated with a tube or a regulator. It is not an indication of failure, more its sort of a curiosity. | |
| RFI from steel TV bracket? Sounds to me like you have more troubles than you thought. So let's go back to the time you installed this bracket thing.What *other* changes did you do? | |
| Horning owners what amps have you used? Hi Joe, I understand your empirical position as being real, but I would not regard it as universal by any means with regards to OTLs and rear-loaded horns. It simply means that the amp you used sounded the way it did with that speaker, and it does... | |
| Slight Tube 'Whistle' - Help? Yes, some tubes seem to respond well to getting knocked about :)I remember a few years ago we got in a batch of JJ 12AX7s for a guitar amp we make. They were all microphonic and unusable until they got thumped against a counter top. That seemed to... | |
| Tube AMP or SS "Tubes are generally better at voltage drive while SS is better at current" and to finish this statement,voltage driven produces even harmonics as opposed to SS which produces uneven harmonics.Depending on who you talk to, this statement is likely... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Hmm. Something not mentioned so far with regards to speed stability is soundstage. Anyone who has heard a good tape machine knows what I mean. When the 'table speeds up and slows down the skating forces on any radial tracking arm will change. This... |