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| Filling speaker stands: sand, lead, steel, rice. Full, half, etc? willem, surely Mr. Shaw considers room placement, not just height, an important determiner of speaker sound quality. And how about degree of toe-in? I recently finally heard a pair of Magicos in a home (having heard them in showrooms a fair amount... | |
| Musician vs. audiophile stringreen, the most brilliant musician I've ever known said the same to me when he heard his first high-end system (mine) in 1974. He knew the music of his favorite composers (J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven) so well from studying the scores, that w... | |
| Filling speaker stands: sand, lead, steel, rice. Full, half, etc? I bought a Solid Steel stand from the U.S. distributor at the Vegas CES in the late 90's. He had applied lead tape to all the metal tubes, in locations that weren't visible---the back of each leg, and the backs and bottoms of the cross-beams. | |
| Filling speaker stands: sand, lead, steel, rice. Full, half, etc? For dry sand, look for Silica at a building supply yard near you. It is not organic sand, but rather man-made, and is used in sand blasting. It is available in many different grades---the size of each grain---60 being a good one. A 100 lb. bag cos... | |
| Equalization The best use of tone controls (which went out-of-fashion in high-end in the 70's) is to correct for the differing balances found in recordings. The Quad pre-amps had (have?) great ones. | |
| Musician vs. audiophile James Boyk, Pianist In Residence at the California Institute of Technology (where he teaches), is a performing musician, recording engineer at his label Performance Recordings, equipment reviewer, and long-time audiophile. In one talk he gave, he ... | |
| Static Electricity on Vinyl analogluvr, the TNT's plinth is black acrylic, right? What are the Teres and Micro made of? | |
| Why do some amps provide more output power when using a balanced connection? gdhal, did you misread Mark's post? He described the difference between 12dB and 18dB as "not at all insignificant", same as you. | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! prof, for the $18 a lb. the Wall Damp scraps cost (including shipping iirc), it is well worth a try, ay? That buys you about twenty-five 2.5/3" x 4" pieces. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? You’re SO right, tostadodunitos, Richard Manuel is a great drummer. Not in the technical sense, but musically. Levon Helm started the 1965 Bob Dylan world tour as the drummer in Dylan’s backing band for the tour, The Hawks. But he found the booing... | |
| Eminent Technology LFT-8b in Harry's system Thanks again Bruce. The Jupiter caps come highly recommended, preferred by Danny Richie of GR Research (as well as you ;-). They aren't cheap, but the LFT-8b x/o is relatively simple, with not that many parts. | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! prof, the approximately 25 ASC Wall Damp scraps I received are all 4" by between 2.5" and 3". WD is just under 1/16" thick, with a layer of adhesive on both sides, like carpet tape. The odor you refer to, found in the roofing materials (tar paper ... | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! ASC (Acoustic Science Corp.) offers a product named Wall Damp. It comes in 4" squares (I believe) and long strips, and was designed to act as constrained layer damping when installed between layers of sheetrock. I recently heard it's effectiveness... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? I watched the Brian Setzer Orchestra’s Christmas Extravaganza on TV. Pretty darn cool! Setzer is still not much of a singer, but his guitar playing is great, and his tone is awesome---nothing like a Gretsch White Falcon plugged into a vintage blon... | |
| cartridge setup help It's worth the drive to Pasadena, to have Brian Berdan at Audio Elements correctly install and perfectly align the cartridge. |