chayro
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| Monitors on Short Stands Mapleshade makes a stand like you describe - called the "Bedrock". The low stance increases the bass response, but the speaker is suspended off the platform by brass fitting and a large cone in front so the mids and treble are less muddied than if... | |
| CD Mats -- do they work? Are they dangerous? I'm not sure they're all voodoo. There are several companies - Esoteric, Electrocompaniet and maybe others, who feel that clamping the full surface of the disc is a better way to go than just in the center. So, from a mechanical standpoint, the CD... | |
| Cheap Plater dust cover What brand of pizza is it? | |
| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? What CDs are you using as a benchmark? If you're using some super-compressed commercial recording, you may not have any additional resolution to gain. I bought a reissue of the Vanilla Fudge record on Sundazed and it sounded no better than a CD. T... | |
| Rega P3-24 or RB301 anti-skating bias I haven't adjusted my Rega arm in a long time (some audiophile I am!) but as I recall, the adjustment is backwards from what you would think - all the way OUT is off. Try starting from the full off position and see what happens. If the arm seems t... | |
| Tonearm for rega Planar 3 Some prefer the Rega RB250 to the RB300. Less money too. I agree in that I wouldn't start screwing around with non-Rega arms on a Rega table. You may start getting into issues with the depth of the other arm, or the wiring may bind up for some rea... | |
| Ayon CD-2 sonics? thoughts? opinions? So - I'm anxious to hear the review on the CD-2. Aggielaw, let's hear it. | |
| What do you think of my selection? Everyone will have their own opinion, and many will advise you to buy used. Personally, if you're just getting back into this thing, you should have some support if you need it. IMO, rather than the Marantz, check out Audio Advisor - they're blowi... | |
| Where's the bass? Cripes - I just did a quick check and the Cerwins can be had new for under $600!. | |
| Where's the bass? Many of the older speakers didn't have bass, they had boom. Nothing wrong with boom - people love that stuff. Juke boxes are all boom and people love the sound. The better new speakers are meant to have pitch-accurate bass in that you can actually... | |
| Cheap tweaks...What would YOU reccomend? Honestly, I think the cheapest tweak is to buy a better whatever component you're trying to tweak. Between the power cords, shelves, cones, blocks and other bullshit, you end up spending more than a better "whatever" in the long run. That aside, I... | |
| Clearaudio Emotion lacks dynamics I don't know if this is true for all tables, but I have found record players to be very dependent on where they sit. You probably have your new table set up the way your old table sounded best, which may not be working as well as it did before. Yo... | |
| Glass Shelf under CD Player or not? I don't think you can predict the outcome. When I had a Naim Fraim with glass shelves, the glass sounded far superior to Corian under my Linn. When I moved the Linn to a wall shelf, the glass sounded horrible and Corian sounded better than glass o... | |
| Wall mount TT shelf recommendations My Linn was absolutely unusable due to my springy floors, but the problem was totally cured by the Target shelf. I expected some improvement, but not the virtually total isolation I achieved. The dog can jump down off the couch and not a flutter. ... | |
| You're probably listening too loud The point I was trying to make was not that people should listen at low levels. I was trying to convey that the normal deadening of the ears due to worldly noise caused us to turn up the volume more than necessary to achieve individual bliss. Even... |