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| Should I use Speaker Spike / Isolation Base or Something? stringreens +1 +1 +1stereo5 Why not try with just the spikes? | |
| Anyone ditch the sub after large speaker purchase? @raysmtb1 - "I think 12 inch woofers were ditched to sell more subwoofers and make shipping easier."No. I think it was because materials at that time were not stiff enough to prevent cone distortion. I remember 15 inch drivers in guitar amps. ... | |
| Should I use Speaker Spike / Isolation Base or Something? Spikes vs springs. The extremes. Pucks are intermediate.I go back to well before spikes first started. The principle was that if the speaker is prevented from moving/vibrating due to reaction to cone displacement or in-room resonances the sound... | |
| Not in love with my system yet. Help! @oldhvymecI normally like your posts and don't like all the bad-mouthing that goes on here, but......MC is the worst offender by a mile and brings it on himself. He could easily turn it off and that would be great but.....meanwhile no-one should ... | |
| “Marks on the underside” Yup singintheblues. Seems obvious to us.Hi res photos will do with just a reference to each mark - It's not easy to describe a mark accurately. | |
| Curl or Pass Pass.On both. | |
| For auld lang syne, ..high-end companies you really liked that are gone.... Simon Yorke, for 8 years in the 1990s his S7 was Michael Fremer's reference player.I have had three SYs: the Zarathustra who's design was appropriated by Cello, the S7; the final S10 with Aeroarm is a lifetime keeper.Sad to see him leave the busin... | |
| Advise before I regret Dear aewarrenThe speakers were NOT identical to each other. One pair was white and the other black.Consider the philosophical conundrum of making the perfect die - ie in which all six faces are so identical it is impossible to distinguish them. | |
| Does Anyone Think CD is Better Than Vinyl/Analog? Hi sd40. Macca didn't get rich by not knowing how to plug his music, CD or whatever. Besides what he heard and loved in the studio in the 60s was.............analogue.Not digital. | |
| Does Anyone Think CD is Better Than Vinyl/Analog? It must be recognised that in 1980 specific storage capacity was orders of magnitude less than it is today. The Red Book CD spec was practical, not theoretical. It was based on the maximum amount of data that would fit on the chosen silver disc... | |
| Cables 101, new student, first question you guys should hold Tekton man to account on his cable painting misinformation. | |
| Cables 101, new student, first question Millercarbon: "But I have crawled under the house and put this stuff on wires going all the way back to the breaker panel. The first 5 feet from the panel makes just the same improvement as the last 5 feet in the room."Oh, so you came up for air ... | |
| How old are you? Three score and ten.Talking of classes, my wife was in Elton John's class at Pinner High when he was plain young Reg Dwight. At 15 he was banging away at the piano saying he would be famous. Just like Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney - seems to be p... | |
| Looking for some new floor standing speakers Now, what were those big ugly multi-driver speakers with the poor finish and garish colours?I am sure we shall hear soon. | |
| Multi Meter Tweak Do you power up the multi-meter?Does it affect the sound if you switch from ohms to volts?What if you use more than one multimeter?What if you put a 12v car battery on your amp?What if you put your amp on the floor of a Tesla?etc etc |