bgrazman
Responses from bgrazman
| Carbon and silver conductors I think the effect is just to get you to spend more $. | |
| Essential Blues/ jazz I have found that a lot of the labels sell "sampler" volumes very inexpensively.The (blues) one that immediately comes to mind is Alligator Records "Genuine House Rocking" series.Happy listening, | |
| Speaker cable gauge and amplifier power I agree with Albertporter, your ears are the best instrument.I just replaced the small Nordost SPM speaker cable driving my subs with big (8 AWG) cables and heard a big difference... | |
| Maple platforms I have a VPI Aries & saw a dramatic difference when I moved from putting it on a granite shelf (on top of a wood diy flexy rack) to a maple shelf. I haven't updated my virtual system, but I have the flexy rack, a little (3/4") 4X6 graite plate... | |
| Record Cleaning Machines Anyone heard about the Zenn machine? I think it's manual scrub, followed by high speed spin to dry the record centrifigully (if that's a word). | |
| Is it bad to stack your equipment Mark,You can still get someone (carpenter, stoneworker, timbernation.com, somebody else) to make the shelves to your spec & assemble the rack yourself.For the uprights, you would need only threaded rod (hardware store), bolts, washers, etc. Th... | |
| Mood lighting try to find a "nixie clock"nixies are 60's era tubes with 0-9 as independent cathodes (think digital clock before lcd/led displays). with the tubes exposed, its a great complement to my tube pre.nice warm glow | |
| Newbie looking for system suggestions I would think about building around:ARC LS-7 (tube linestage preamb, used about 700; need a phono amp if you want to go vinyl)MacCormack DNA 0.5 (ss amp, used about 700)This is one of the steps I took-it was quite satisfying and both components ho... | |
| What is the most important cable? Mine is the most important cable.I hardly care at all about yours.(speaker cable) | |
| Tube Preamp Isolation Aurios under my Supratek Syrah (was surprised what a difference it made) | |
| Is it bad to stack your equipment Elizabeths problem is why I had to build my own...Went from a 5 high to a double wide 4 high... (and still have my headphone amplifier elsewhere in the room).(setup is different than the picture in my virtual system. TT is now on a timbernation pl... | |
| Is it bad to stack your equipment Mark,I can't tell you the right answer, but here are some things to think about:1. temperature & air flow2. vibration/physical isolation3. ease of keeping cables well separated(I ended up building my own flexy type rack when I ran out of room ... | |
| paypal phishing Another safety tip:Never ever click on the links they provide.If you have a question, just go to your own paypal account & see what's up. | |
| Record Cleaning Machines To clarify:I currently use the disk doctor fluids & a nitty gritty 1.5....(since the mid 80's)I wanted something more convenient (automatic)... I have purchased almost all of the LP's I have when new.... so heavy scrubbing is not something tha... | |
| How to correctly use the SDS with the Scoutmaster ...you say "toe may toe" I say "toe mah toe"... but I'd rather stress a circuit than an electromechanical device... |