atmasphere
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| Are contact treatments worth the money? If I can offer some comments- one should be wary of any contact enhancers that leave behind an oily deposit. In certain situations, the oil can migrate and affect circuits that it shouldn't.I've seen contact enhancers applied to tube sockets and i... | |
| Reel to Reel Restoration/Repair It seems that for different machines there is a different expert. I found that out when servicing the Otari and Studer decks in our studio last year when working on the LP my band was recording.Teacs and Tascams are usually fairly easy to service ... | |
| Which used Merlin VSM offers best bang for buck?? You're kidding right? Just get the one you can afford- you can't *go* wrong... | |
| How to lower noise floor through mods? IMO/IME its a Bad Idea to bypass coupling caps. The result is smearing. The more resolution your system has, the more you hear it. On low resolution systems it may sound like that cap got speeded up a little.Your best shot is to put in the best co... | |
| How to lower noise floor through mods? T_bone, if you have an older piece that you are wanting to update, the first thing to do is make sure that its actually working right first. To that end replacing the filter caps is the most important thing to do. You can get a lot of the aluminum... | |
| Speaker Impedance A lot will depend on your room and your listening habits, but in an average room 60 watts will be a good minimum power. Any tube amplifier or solid state should be able to handle that load. | |
| Can digitizing vinyl match CD? If you are ripping vinyl, and you have the Alesis Masterdisk, set it to record at 24/88.2 This way there will be no algorithm needed to convert to Red Book, but there will be the same advantage of 24/96 in that there will be no brickwall filter us... | |
| Most agreed upon best speaker? Newbee, the idea that a certain age of music recordings is designed to sound right on a certain vintage of speaker and amplification is a red herring. Often recording engineers, just like today, are recording on location and using headphones. Mic ... | |
| How does smoke effect speakers? I used to service a lot of loudspeakers in the old days. You could always tell if the speaker was owned by a smoker- of course they would smell, but the suspensions of the drivers would usually be rotted long before their time. The same is true of... | |
| Titan, Transfiguration Orpheus or Air Tight PC1?? One should be mindful in all these exchanges about cartridge loading- whether that was done in the case of each system and experience where cartridges are compared. For example, if you were to listen to the PC1 you might think that it is cold and ... | |
| Titan, Transfiguration Orpheus or Air Tight PC1?? Sunnyboy1956, I've used the Lyra, Transfiguration and the Air Tight, all in the Triplanar. All are great cartridges; I found myself preferring the Orpheus. It seems that it has a little more body... | |
| 4 ohm, 8 ohm or 16 ohm tap on amp for quad 57 Hi Lula, Some people have had good luck with the S-30. I've not tried it mayself, but I have used the M-60, which works great. With either amplifier, a speaker fuse might not be a bad idea (or be careful with the volume control), as the speaker re... | |
| Using a 15 inch woofer to do mid range One nice thing about this approach is the smaller capacitor that is used to keep the lows out of the midrange (as opposed to a lower crossover frequency). The smaller cap will be more transparent. | |
| 4 ohm, 8 ohm or 16 ohm tap on amp for quad 57 Hi MrT, the 8 ohm tap is a pretty good bet. You'll have to try it and see how the highs do. If you use the 16 ohm taps, the highs will be rolled off. There's lots of cool things that you can do the the ST-70 to improve performance- set up right it... | |
| How to make sound less detailed with warmth? In amps and preamps, the mechanism that contributes most to a situation of harsh detail is emphasis of the odd-ordered harmonics that the ear uses as loudness cues.These harmonics tend to be emphasized by transistors and the use of global negative... |