bdp24
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| Vibration isolation It is not the speaker’s vibration that roller bearings are dealing with, it is the vibrations traveling across the floor upon they are sitting. The bearings prevent those vibrations from being transferred into the speaker cabinet or planar frame. ... | |
| What happened to the New Today box on Audiogon. It took me two days to finally go looking for and finding it. What was wrong with the way it was, Audiogon?! | |
| EAR 834p-- which are stock tube replacements? RAM Tubes Works, after testing/measuring their incoming tubes, grades and selects them for different applications. Their highest graded tubes for phono amp use are those which test the quietest, possess the best gain balance between the two halves... | |
| Vibration isolation Ha, good point Kenny! I'm not comfortable with the idea of putting roller bearings under my 5' tall planar speakers for the same reason, though recording engineer and roller bearing proponent Barry Diament has his 6' tall Magneplanar MG3.7's sitti... | |
| Stacked Quad Questions When I said the bottom Quad was 36" above the floor, I meant to say the middle of that panel was at that height, ear level. | |
| Rear Channel fill So you mean speakers behind the listening position making the same sound as the front speakers? Not anything I would want to do or hear, and imo not a desirable thing. But to each their own! | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! Oops, right you are Geoff. I gotta remember to proof my posts! The great thing about saying "in all planes but vertical" is that you then don’t need to list them all. Those planes (perhaps "directions" is more accurate?) include, as you have point... | |
| Favorite Female vocals that give you goose bumps "Maybe" by The Chantels. | |
| SoCal FM radio casualty tablejockey---The Foothill Club WAS a dive, but some great Blues and Rockabilly artists played there in the 1990's. I got a gig with Specialty Records artists Don & Dewey when they played there in the late 90's. They had a couple of hits in th... | |
| Rear Channel fill A Dynaco ambience box (Dynaquad, or was it Quadaptor?) is a cheap, easy way to mimic the hall sound in live recordings. It merely creates an out-of-phase (left minus right) signal from the 2-channel signal, creating ambience that a pair of rear sp... | |
| Primaluna Dialogue Premium vs VPI 299D? I don't know about it's sound, but I sure like the aesthetics of the VPI---like the Marantz Model 7 pre-amp. | |
| Stacked Quad Questions Peter---I had stands made for stacking Quads back in the early 90's (three sheets of 3/4" MDF glued together---2-1/4" thick!), and designed them the same as yours: The bottom panel at ear level (36" above the floor), that panel upside down and but... | |
| Age old discussion I know but MM or MC? Benefits? Rarely mentioned is the third alternative---Moving Iron, Grado and London (aka Decca) being the two best known. A big advantage of the (generally) high-output MI's is their lack of the need for either a transformer or extra gain. London's produce ... | |
| Vibration isolation Kenny, the Townshend Seismic Pods are also available as a model name the Seismic Corner---two Pods on a metal plate that is placed under each corner of a rack. With them in place, anything sitting in the rack is isolated from vibrations coming up ... | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! To isolate a turntable/arm/cartridge from higher frequencies (above about 10Hz) is easy; a suspended table does that very effectively by having mere springs acting as a mechanical filter. In contrast, very low frequencies "get through" the suspens... |