carlsbad
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| US Customs charges for electronics bought from Japan I've bought a few things from europe. I don't think it matters so much where it is from as what it is. If your seller fills out the customs forms right the charge should be little or none. There is a harmonized tariff schedule and if they pick ... | |
| Is it worth upgrading a CD player? My advice is the opposite of @kota1 . The DAC is the most important part of a CD system. If you have a DAC you like, then you are really just using the CD player as a CD transport, sending a digital signal to the DAC. Streaming you are fighting... | |
| Best kept secret in AC line filtering conditioning I’m always very skeptical of any filter that "cleans up" power from your wall. To do this they have to use a circuit that lets the 60hz sine wave through and not the rest of it. Eventaully someone posts "I plugged my amp into the wall and the bass... | |
| Open Baffle Experience I've long been attracted to Emerald Physics beautiful open baffle speakers but I've never heard them. If a used pair shows up near me I'll go listen to them. Jerry | |
| Open Baffle Experience @kenjit Your posts remind me of the political climate in the country rignt now. While I fully support your right to your opinion, you attempt to squash any opinion that doesn't agree with yours. I think if we made ou a moderator you would just d... | |
| Vintage tube sound from a modern amp @oddiofyl kindo strange and frankly suspicious that he asked you not to post photos of the inside. I work in an industry where intellectual property can be worth a lot and I've never seen restrictions like that. I assume he asks all his customer... | |
| Nobosound Springs @clearthinker while your math is correct,making it sound factual that spikes are better, it is still your opinion that anchoring the speaker to the floor sounds better. Springs to just the opposite. 2 very unequal masses almost totally decoupled.... | |
| Vintage tube sound from a modern amp I think the "airy sound" is what you get with a tube amp that doesn't stick to tube amp design criteria that have made tube amps famous. To get the classic tube amp sound you use point to point wiring, simple signal paths, and great power suppl... | |
| Not Chinese Fakes But Not big $$$ Either @bigtwin I didn't mean to imply I think you should use the BFAs. banana vs lug is always a matter of opinion. I do like your choice of lug. I agree with the solid copper lug. Solid copper is soft but that works with a lug. I do like that yo... | |
| Not Chinese Fakes But Not big $$$ Either @bigtwin If you like lugs, then solid copper is definitely the way to go. Many traditional bananas have problems. I've had them come apart on me. So I use silver plated BFA style "banana" plugs. Those have the added advantage of low mass wh... | |
| Custom rack, isolation under platform vs component? Either should be fine. I like the springs under the platforms so long as they are stiff enough to handle the weight. The higher mass will be excited less to vibrate and the springs should do a better job of isolating. The exception would be if ... | |
| Problem with biasing Most likely a bad tube. Swapping tubes will tell you if it is the tube or something internal. a bias resistor has been suggested and that would indeed explain the reading but these resistors should last a lifetime. Running at high bias current ... | |
| Nobosound Springs springs isolate speakers and allow the speakers to vibrate naturally. spikes anchor them to the floor so they try to vibrate the floor which limits their vibration. Rubber, cork tend to damp vibration so it limits the ability of the speaker to... | |
| Disappearing Jazz? Rock and Roll disappeared. Country morphed to something else. Young musiciand think something called "hip hop" is musical. The change has been exacerbated by the demise of AM/FM radio along with records. I think a lot of the people that woul... | |
| Nobosound Springs I am a big believer in spring isolation. I have nobosound under my amp and DAC. I don't think gains are huge isolating your components when your floor is concrete. There isn't much vibration getting transmitted. But it can't hurt. I will point... |