carlsbad2
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| Turntable weight affects speed @clearthinker Please understand that my post here is meant to keep the physics correct and not to embarass you. You have a rudimentary understanding of some physics concepts, just enough to be dangerous, as they say. Indeed, there is angular mom... | |
| Is it possible for a high end manufacturer to overprice their goods? My daughter is a freshman business student. I am a physicist. She called me for help with calculus. She was doing the standard first calculus problems for first and second level integration and differentiation. In physics we do x, v, and a (p... | |
| Rogue Audio. Reliability issues? Anyone? So a post above says they have manual bias. turn the bias down by 10 mA and that should help a lot. If it is a KT88 then maxx plate dissipation is 40 watts. I'd run it at 30 watts and if having problems, I'd use 25 for a while. You need to kn... | |
| Turntable weight affects speed Hand spinning will get it up to speed. Once up to speed, the load on the belt/motor should be the same with or without the weight (physics). If it is different, then you have something dragging or a bad bearing that results in extra frictional for... | |
| Rogue Audio. Reliability issues? Anyone? @nickrobotron matched tubes is of greatly exaggerated value. Especially if your amp has good bias control. Now you're having trouble with bias (is my guess). This is why I greatly prefer manual bias control. So don't even consider paying for... | |
| Modifying Crossovers Clearly there are a few members here, a vocal minority that one person has called a "consensus" that think it is crazy to touch an OEM component and if God (the OEM) had intended you to have a better crossover, he would have given you one. I’m fi... | |
| 1 Micron in-Water Filter for Ultrasonic Record Cleaning Tanks Water has impurities. wasn't implying anything about your cleanliness. And wasn't doubting it worked great. If it didn't plug up eventually I'd be concerned. Sounds like a good product to me. Jerry | |
| Rogue Audio. Reliability issues? Anyone? Check your plate voltage. Is it autobias? if not, confirm your bias current by calculating the plate dissipation with P=IV, Jerry | |
| 1 Micron in-Water Filter for Ultrasonic Record Cleaning Tanks I have some experience with water filtration. a 1 micron filter will give you clean water. It will plug fairly rapidly. how often do you change the filter cartridge? Jerry | |
| Modifying Crossovers @falmgren "needs modifications" is too strong, and you probably meant it that way. But if an $11K speaker couldn't be improved, there would be no need for a $12K speaker, would there? Crossovers are one of the areas where speaker manufacturers t... | |
| Modifying Crossovers @invalid Look at my photo above and there are some very good suggestions. While many upgrade the capacitors, and resistors aren’t expensive to upgrade, inductors are often neglected, that is, not upgraded to a level consistent with the capacitors... | |
| Modifying Crossovers I apologize to the audiophile gods. Nobody can know more than someone who has hung up a shingle and become an OEM. | |
| Modifying Crossovers To get a crossover with high end components you'll have to spend $100k or more. I am currently building new external crossovers for my speakers. I spent $2300 on caps, resistors, and inductors. Here is a photo of the final layout completed jus... | |
| I can't connect my Audioengine A2+ I assume you are trying to use them wirelessly via blutooth? I bought them solely because they have the ability to be driven by a usb cable to their (superior) onboard DAC. Quite an upgrade compared to blutooth. | |
| How many of you are passively bi-amping? What do you have? Erik, Tekton provides both options. I don't know why they short the 2 hots and the 2 grounds internally on speakers set up for biwire only but they do. My speakers were biwire only but were not marked, I got that verbally from the original pu... |