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| One box do it all Vincent sv series or Parasound integrated depending on your budget. | |
| Capacitor OldhvymecYou CAN use polar capacitors as long as you connect them back to back like positives together or negatives together. This will HALF the value of the capacitance however. So if you intend to make a resultant of 10 uF of capacitance, you w... | |
| Capacitor Some general recommendations:- Do NOT change the capacitance value of your capacitor. The design calculations are based on its existing value.- DO change it as long as you are INCREASING its voltage rating. Never any harm in increasing its voltage... | |
| MM Cartridge Recommendation For a warmer sound, try the Nagaoka 300 or 500. I have one. I think it would sound beautiful with almost all systems. | |
| 60 Hz Hum from Powered Sub Power your sub from the mains plug which is also connected to your other devices. Basically, all the earth potentials of all the devices must be on the exact same potential. If there is even a few millivolts difference, you will get the dreaded hu... | |
| What do "audiophiles" use to judge equipment? Audiophiles judge by listening and double blind tests. Audiophools judge mostly by price. | |
| How To Do You Measure the Quality of Your AC Power? The quality of the mains sine wave does not matter too much as long as it is able to magnetically excite the transformers of your electronics. Also noise, including RF noise is usually very well filtered out by good quality power supplies. What r... | |
| What is the reason for this? (Digital vs Vinyl Question) Welcome to the 21st century. You have actually admitted to what most people already know but still do not quite want to admit. Vinyl is good. Was good. But it is primitive, limited in bandwidth and limited in dynamics. Regardless of the recent sal... | |
| The Miller Carbon Story How do you keep the dust bunnies off from all this ? | |
| Why have capacitors improved so much over the years? Please define "improved".In terms of sound quality, I do not think much has changed. 30 year old polystyrene caps were excellent, they still are.If however, you are referring to their reliability, closer tolerances and higher temperature ratings,... | |
| Vibration - What are the Main Sources? It does NOT affect the sound, it is just an annoyance.Care to explain the logic behind that one?The author of that article states:Likewise, I can’t bear to hear/ read actual snake oil vendors claiming that you’ll get "cleaner highs", "more author... | |
| Vibration - What are the Main Sources? Main source of vibration is the toroidal transformer in any electronic equipment.It is particularly sensitive to oversaturation and DC component in the AC mains, if any.Here it is in detail:https://sound-au.com/articles/xfmr-dc.htmIt does NOT affe... | |
| Amplification: what are the biggest advances of the last 40 years? class D | |
| What is the most important component to consider while building a new system? The most important components in an ANALOG system in priority order, most important first:- phono cartridge- tonearm- phono preamp- preamp/power amp- turntable- speakers | |
| An integrated amp with an MM phono stage including a loudness control Thanks for all the responses. Yamaha & Luxman seem to be definitely the right choices. |