atmasphere
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| MBL alternatives If you are looking for wide-angle dispersion, the High Emotion Audio speakers like the S7 have a tweeter that is really amazing- the 90-degree off-axis response is nearly the same as straight on! It is also one of the fastest tweeters I've heard. | |
| What Makes a Good RIAA or Line Stage? Years ago the Library of Congress did a study; they concluded that any laminated media was not/is not servicable as an archival media. IOW any laminated media would fail within years or 2 decades at the most.Non-laminated (amorphous) media is pref... | |
| High efficiency speakers You might try the Classic Audio Reproductions if you have the budget: 97db 1 watt/1 meter, 16 ohms, 20Hz-45KHz and the 20Hz is bona-fide. I have found very little to complain about in this speaker: the resolution (with the field coil drivers) equa... | |
| Tone controls- to use or not? The Accuphase that I used was the DG-28 digital room correction unit. It wasn't cheap either! The analog unit, once set to the same settings, sounded better (nor was it cheap; for either unit you could have bought 3 or 4 Behringers). I know that p... | |
| Tone controls- to use or not? Eldartford, I have yet to hear a Behringer that I'd want to put in my system! All of them I have heard so far are easily surpassed by other manufacturers for not a lot of extra money. My impression so far is that they target the entry-level semi-p... | |
| new tubes on auto-bias amp,can be done by anyone? short answer: yes. If you have to ship the amp back, doesn't sound like auto bias to me! | |
| Cartridge aging and tip wear symtoms? You can certainly get a lot of cartridges to play for years. But- they won't sound right nor will they track right. So far I don't know of anything that lasts forever, although in terms of recordings, LPs are probably the longest-lived media. | |
| bullet proof amp I short out the speaker terminals while the preamp volume is up all the way as a demo at shows. In addition, I pull tubes out of the amps **while they are playing** and swap them from one channel to the other, with no ill effect or artifact at all... | |
| Tone controls- to use or not? I think the problem here is that the term 'good equalizer' in this day and age is a bit oxymoronic. Back in the old days, Harmon Kardon had a preamp call the Citation One, which employed switched tone controls, i.e. the tone controls were built up... | |
| Cartridge aging and tip wear symtoms? I've viewed many needles under the scope over the years. Rarely did I see one that was actually worn. I did see a few where the stylus had been sheared off of the cantilever... and a lot of dirty styli :) As the cartridge ages, usually whether it ... | |
| tube burnout If your cartridge is not properly loaded, you are missing a bet with LPs. Proper loading can take out a lot of harshness and improve detail. If the cartridge is a few years old, the cantilever suspension can perish (like bad shocks in a car) and t... | |
| Good Time to be a metal fan with a turntable Last time they were in NY was the Therion tour last October/November. Thanks for the tip! | |
| MBL alternatives Sure. They don't have the impact of the T-1 or T-3 (they go down to about 30 Hz), but they do everything else about the same. I don't know if John Wolfe is working on a field coil technology for that model or not. | |
| Tone controls- to use or not? The term 'audiophile' means 'audio lover'. So goof off with it to your heart's desire :)A good number of tone controls, when set to flat, are not in fact flat at all- there is usually some perturbation on account of the controls. In addition, an a... | |
| MBL alternatives That. Looks. Awesome. |