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| Has anybody bought or heard a Chinese knock off amplifier? +1 dajYou got it!The world has to slowly wean itself off Chinese manufacture that we foolishly allowed ourselves to pass to them. Also avoid investing in China and prevent them buying into our companies, sending their students, etc. so they can ... | |
| What tests would you like all speaker reviewers to do for their reviews? +3 for John Atkinson. I've read him since he started more than 40 years ago.In this time he has tested some 1,000 speakers and has build an unequalled authority. | |
| Has anybody bought or heard a Chinese knock off amplifier? Until China ends this illegal trade in knock-offs and stealing IP rights, Trump is correct. China is not fit to trade with other nations.A friend of mine bought a fake Rolex years ago. He showed it to me while we were sitting by the pool in Thai... | |
| Why wont speaker companies publish their measurements? Of course manufacturers have the equipment and measure their speakers, in many cases exhaustively, in the privacy of their own premises.But If manufacturers published measurements you can bet they will be falsified or taken under optimum or artifi... | |
| Speaker sensitivity vs SQ Thanks realworld.Congratulations on your perceptive first post here. Keep 'em coming!I note this thread is well into its 4th page.You mention equipment mismatching. How true! In another recent thread dealing with: What's the most important eleme... | |
| Ribbon Tweeters and Animal Hair "Always keep pets away from delicate gear. A good blast with pressurized air for cleaning on occasion sounds like a good idea to me." MapmanNot sure my dog would go for that. But I guess it would teach him not to go near the hi-fi. | |
| Ribbon Tweeters and Animal Hair Hi rar1That's a helluva long-lived cat. | |
| What exactly is textural density?? If you are a hi-fi magazine writer, you are largely describing sound.This is certainly not easy and you need real talent, nay imagination, to invent hundreds of expressions to do that. Otherwise every month's copy would be much the same.It appear... | |
| Best type of metal for turntable platform? +1 +1 +1 noromanceYou sure got it correct.Concrete is the answer to vibration and indeed marble and stone, and plenty of it.OP has a suspended floor above crawl space and bare earth below. Great start.Rolls Royce solution: Take up the floor, dig ... | |
| Which Component Has the Greatest Affect on Low-Level Listening That's an 'effect' silly OP.The answer is exactly the same as the answer to the same question about normal level listening. See other string posted yesterday. | |
| Mickey Mouse Ears Obviously just changes the listener's impression of the sound ambience in the room.Could be good, could be bad, depends on the room. No way to tell at the first kiss. | |
| A stupid question for which there's no sensible answer. Goodness WillieWonky, you must surely have your tongue in both cheeks.Possibly in order to sell his turntable which at that time was his only product, Ivor Tiefenbrun used to say the source was crucial - garbage in, garbage out. Indeed, since he ... | |
| Professional Identification help needed! Well Mr Turkey, you sure got an apt name! How come you missed Christmas?You did get quite a big box for $399 and it's painted a nice black colour, so that's OK. | |
| Record clamp/weight and turntable speed Heavy clamps increase the wear on the bearing.There is no reason for them to be heavy if they have correct mechanical design. Screwing onto a threaded centre pin is a much better approach than using mass to hold the record down.@simao It's real... | |
| Life span of silver cables with cotton/air dielectric But the issue with air is oxidisation of the conductors that is unseen and untreatable.There was a time when most cables were sealed. I even recall some manufacturers talking about a vaccuum.Choices..... |