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| 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... | |
| Vandersteen Treo CT vs Mag 3.7i speakers newton, though 5ft. or more is optimum for planars (all, not just Maggies), 4ft. can be acceptable if you treat the wall behind the speakers with either absorption or diffusion. Absorption for a smaller, more "direct" sound, diffusion for a bigger... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Great album reubent, along with Rubber Soul, their two best imo. | |
| Best way to decrease the internal volume of a sealed speaker? ozzy, Black Hole 5 is a 1-3/8" thick cabinet damping pad with adhesive on one side. You attach it to the cabinet's interior walls to damp panel resonance and absorb internal reflections. GR Research sells an even better panel damping material name... | |
| Jazz for aficionados frogman, it’s great to hear about Country music fans (such as your wife) liking the "real" stuff, not what’s being pushed by Nashville. John Hiatt isn’t marketed as a Country artist (more as a singer/songwriter), but he is more country than what’s... | |
| connecting a sub-woofer to a preamp Rythmik subs have speaker-level output binding posts. | |
| Best way to decrease the internal volume of a sealed speaker? Add bracing---dowels attached to opposing walls. It will not only decrease the enclosure's internal volume, but make it more non-resonant (or at least raise the frequency at which it resonates, thus making the resonance less audible). | |
| Jazz for aficionados Ry Cooder is great not only as a guitarist/frontman/bandleader/singer (of a "certain" sort ;-), but also as a sideman. When John Hiatt was preparing to record his Bring The Family album, the record’s producer invited him to choose the players for ... | |
| Most overrated bands I saw and heard Bill Weir and what remains of The Dead (the two drummers) on TV last week, and omg was he awful. Can’t sing to save his life, and neither could Jerry Garcia. I kinda liked the first three Dead albums at the time of their release, b... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? John, it’s just like anything else; there are good horn loudspeakers, and not so good. They got their bad reputation from the PA designs of the "dark ages" (1940’s-50’s). The old Altec A7 was a very popular PA loudspeaker (my teenage band had a pa... | |
| Medium Mass or Low Mass Tonearms? tzh21y---Don't worry about your LP's; a mismatch between an arm's moving mass and a cartridge's compliance results in, not groove damage, but, as others are pointing to here, a too-high or too-low resonant frequency. What WILL cause groove damage ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Another guitarist infamous amongst his peers is the late Danny Gatton. He played Jazz, Hillbilly, Blues, Rockabilly, you name it. Vince Gill nicknamed him "The Humbler". An astounding talent who decided to leave this world ahead of schedule. His g... | |
| What makes tape sound better than vinyl ? Atmasphere? I feel like Rodney Dangerfield! ;-) |