cincy_bob
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| isolation transformer vs line conditioner Glai, I don't know who is quoting you a price in excess of $1,000 for the 5kVA MGE Topaz isolation transformer, but I think that price is inflated by a factor of two. Try Al Magro at Allied Electronics in Bristol, Pennsylvania:Allied Electronics. | |
| New Air Suspension Footers for VPI TNT Well, I have managed to do some listening since putting the new air suspension footers into my system. The improvements in sound were:1. Lower noise floor - I should note that, while I had the turntable dissassembled, I took the opportunity to cle... | |
| New Air Suspension Footers for VPI TNT Rwd, I believe that the new TNT footers are a newly engineered design that VPI just finished within the past month. I was told that the footers I received this week were from the very first production run of the new parts. I don't know if the HRX ... | |
| New Air Suspension Footers for VPI TNT Rives, the suspension mechanism in the new VPI footers is compressed air in the form of a paddleball. The paddleball sits in a cradle atop the footer, and the four stainless steel cylindrical corner posts that are attached to the plinth envelop an... | |
| New Air Suspension Footers for VPI TNT I installed the footers on my turntable this morning, but I have not yet had a chance to listen to my system since the installation. Maybe this evening...I will update this thread with my listening impressions once I have a chance to get a handle ... | |
| Isolated Ground Outlets Hosp Grade vs Audiophile If you decide to go with the Albert's Porter Ports, you need to be aware that they are not IG outlets. In my case, I used Porter Ports for all my listening room circuits. I terminated each of these circuits with a plastic receptacle box so that th... | |
| Convergent audio + Silver cable While I do not have direct experience in using silver cables with the CAT amps, I can tell you from my personal discussions with Ken Stevens that he strongly advises against the use of silver cables. He says they "ring like a bell." Judging from m... | |
| Stephane Grappelli fans There is a great Mosaic Records box set of the complete Swing/HMV recordings of the Quintet of the Hot Club of France. Django Reinhardt appears on all the recordings, and Stephane Grappelli appears on most of them. The recordings are low-fi in tha... | |
| Top "covers" Speaking of "Sweet Jane" by The Velvet Underground, how about the cover of that same tune by the Cowboy Junkies? I doubt that most Cowboy Junkies fans know the provenance of this tune.Going one step beyond "cover songs" and into the realm of "cove... | |
| Triangle and Green Dot....What are they? The orange triangle indicates that the receptacle is an isolated ground receptacle. The ground contacts in these receptacles are, by design, isolated from the mounting yoke. This allows you to separate your equipment ground from the ground for the... | |
| Attn Vinyl lovers - what CD Player do you use? EMM Labs CDSD (transport) and DCC2 (DAC). | |
| Differences between Watt Puppy 7s and Revel Salons Cytocycle, FYI, the Salons weigh 240 lbs. per speaker.I am running the Salons in my system, but I have not had experience with the WP 7s other than having heard them in a brief audition at a dealer. So I can't offer any insightful observations abo... | |
| A new phono stage I used the Lamm LP2 phono stage in my system for an extended period, and I ran it into the Lamm L2 preamp (grat preamp by the way). The Lamm LP2 is an outstanding phono stage. The only reason I moved on to the Manley Steelhead was for additional f... | |
| What should I use between spikes and wood floor? I initially used quarters under my Revel Salons (which are, admittedly very heavy speakers) and found that the spikes gradually drove holes through the coins and into the floor. I switched to Sound Anchors Conecoasters to rectify the problem.Link ... | |
| Mono vs Stereo LP's Here is a thread that might help to answer your question:.Stereo cartridge w/mono records?. |