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| Granite surface plate Audio blazer, don't forget that HRS uses a 0.75" granite platform set in a aluminum shell and sitting on a polymer bed and supported by load specific feet. The surface plate being discussed is 4 times the mass of the HRS. Granite is useful for iso... | |
| VPI Rim Drive vibrations The Super Platter had a problem with the Delrin seperating from the stainless steel middle sandwich on a few examples, not all. In addition, manufacturing the Supper Platter cost 3 times that of the Classic platter which would drive its retail pri... | |
| Got big amp-help with 20A line and receptacle Whatever you end up doing, make sure it's up to code. My electrician installed a pony box off the main breaker box that services my audio components. When I go on vacation or the system is not in use for extended periods of time, I can turn the po... | |
| Granite surface plate Surface plates when purchased from machine equipment suppliers are inexpensive. As other have noted, putting a heavy surface plate on the top shelf could cause a pendulum effect. You do have an option of counter balancing the pendulum effect by pl... | |
| New Vandersteen oil cooled hybrid amplifiers Why oil and not a traditional coolant like ethylene glycol mixed with water? | |
| Update from EMM XDS1 to XDS1 V2 Don't people who spend $25,000 on a CD player just go out and buy a new unit and not worry about upgrades? | |
| CATSL1 best pre under 3K? The CAT SL1 is an awesome preamp and represents great value especially when you factor in the outstanding onboard phono section. | |
| should I suspend a floor-standing turntable? Go ahead and mount it on the wall. Most wall mounts are secured by 4 screws that go into the studs. A little puddy and paint will fix the wall "if" your landlord finds out and insists that you take it down. | |
| Recommendation on speakers with bass adjustibility How about the Rives PARC (Parametric Adaptive Room Compensation system)? You could use any speaker. | |
| Correct method of hooking up Sonus Faber speakers? Try both ways to determine yourself......it doesn't cost anything and it can be done in seconds. | |
| Cary cad120s running 4 ohm speakers? I could never get my Totem Mani-2 to work with tubes. Not even close or even at low volumes. My ML 20.6 mono ss amps just got them going. I hope the Element series are a " lot" more efficient and have a benign impedance curve than the Mani-2. When... | |
| At what point do you set up for mono? It depends on the size of your mono collection. I ran a seperate arm wand and mono cartridge and there was a noticeable sound improvement, but in the end, my limited mono collection did not warrant the $ outlay. | |
| Pro-ject speedbox: Is improvement worth the $ ? Zd542, the project's motor is an ac sychronous and is not dependent on stable voltage as the speed is determined my the line frequency. As previously stated, the 60hz US standard is highly regulated and monitored and does have the same swing varia... | |
| Cary cad120s running 4 ohm speakers? The Totem is a 4ohm "nominal" rating. You will need to look at the speaker's impedance over the entire frequency range to see where the dips and valleys. Tube amps don't like wide impedance swings. One of the draw backs of the Cary is the absence ... | |
| Pro-ject speedbox: Is improvement worth the $ ? The Speed Box only provides the user to change speeds at the push of a button. It does not have the ability to fine tune the speed to compensate for deviations in pulley, platter, and belt tolerance.Since your motor is an AC synchronous motor, it ... |