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Preamp connection to multiple powered subwoofers
If you can build the enclosures, Rythmik offers their subs in DIY kits. The kit includes the servo-feedback woofer and associated 600w plate amp, and polyfill enclosure stuffing. Even if you can't make an enclosure, Parts Express sells some really... 
Which phono section to buy: match table or cartridge?
Give Keith Herron a call. Most of the improvement made to the VTPH-1 to the -2 were in the section used only for low output cartridges.  Keith occasionally has a traded-in VTPH-1mm that he will sell you for not much more than your $1,000 target (s... 
If you were to design a tone arm, what would it look like and feature?
An uninterrupted run of internal wire from the cartridge tags to the RCA plugs. 
BEST SPEAKERS AT A REASONABLE PRICE
$2499 will buy you a pair of the already-mentioned Eminent Technology LFT-8b, and unlike the somewhat similar Magneplanar LRS, .7i, and 1.7i (all being magnetic-planars), which are a 4 ohm load and require a considerably stout power amp, the LFT-8... 
Preamp connection to multiple powered subwoofers
If you buy Rythmik subs, the XLR versions of the company's plate amp allows piggy-backing of one sub to another. You can use the adjustment knobs (level, phase, x/o filters, etc.) on each sub separately, or control the piggy-backed sub as a slave ... 
Barnes and Noble 50% off Vinyl Sale!!!
A while back I picked up the latest Marty Stuart album there, a Barnes & Noble exclusive with signatures on the cover by Marty and his band members.  
Does raising speaker cables off the floor really make a big difference?
Actually, putting a drumkit on a riser drastically effects it’s sound, and some recording studios do so for that very reason. But not as much so as where in relation to the walls the kit is placed. Avoid at all costs cinderblock walls, as I learne... 
What are you streaming tonight?
Along with Falkner, also in The Grays was a soon-to-be hot young producer, Jon Brion (Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple, Rufus Wainwright). When my woman and I went to see Jill Sobule at Largo, she didn't have a band, but Jon got up on stage and played a co... 
What are you streaming tonight?
If you guys REALLY get into Jellyfish, their UK and Japanese 7" 45RPM singles had a lot of non-LP tracks, mostly live recordings. In the afternoon before their live show at The Palace, they did an instore appearance at Tower Records on Sunset. I c... 
DIY speaker isolation base for a wood floor
@audiozenology, the only rubber I use for isolation is a set of Sims Navcom Silencers in place of the stock springs in my VPI HW-19 Mk.3 turntable, a favorite mod amongst HW-19 owners. While the stock springs provide the well-known isolation inher... 
DIY speaker isolation base for a wood floor
Anyone looking for rubbery damping materials has a couple more to choose from: EAR Isodamp (used in industry) and Navcom (used in the gun business). One form of Isodamp is made expressly for constrained-layer damping, another for damping of metal ... 
What are you streaming tonight?
@reubent, did you ever manage to see Jellyfish live? Insanely great! The drummer stood up, singing and playing. Jason Faukner left after the first album, it was the second line-up I saw, at The Palace on Vine Street, across from the Capitol Record... 
DIY speaker isolation base for a wood floor
Thanks for the link to the Newport primer @audiozenology. Another interesting maker of passive spring-based isolation platforms is Minus-K. Unfortunately priced on the high side. 
Combination of 1st order and 2nd order crossover in 3 way box
Talk to Danny Richie at GR Research, a master of x/o design. 
Subwoofers and Phase Question For You Sub Experts
"in other words we don't really know how all these things work so just do a bit of each and see what happens."Now remember, this was posted after a number of posts from Duke, noble100, millercarbon, and others, in which they provided plenty of evi...