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| Where has been your most effective placement for an aftermarket fuse? Thanks rodman.My math is well up to snuff.No point in messing around with cheap uber-fuses. The best cost $500 a pop, so six would be $3,000.No doubt it is possible to engineer a fuse that would retail at $1,000 but only millercarbon would buy th... | |
| marble or granite slab under floorstanders? The idea works. How well is just a question of mass. More mass, more damping, less ringing, less cabinet/frame movement.Build listening room in basement. Dig out, fill in whole floor with new reinforced concrete screed. Raise speakers each on ... | |
| Where has been your most effective placement for an aftermarket fuse? Has anyone using 6 of these wonder fuses in series?Surely the improvement will be 6x as big?At a cost of only $3,000 it's a snip. | |
| What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby? Without question the costliest mistake would be to take miilercarbon seriously. | |
| Guidance on Speaker Wire Absolutely correct kennyc. If space/arrangements allow, move just the power amps nearer the speakers and keep the long runs at line level where issues are easier? Yes, balanced, as professionals use for long runs.If this is impossible, what abou... | |
| Why the truth is not in them ?? Noromance: There is no such thing as a 'Democratic Socialist' nation. Because the Socialist government can always be removed in an election. What changes the people when the Socialists are in power? Or are you thinking about the many nations t... | |
| Cartridge Opinions - Sorry Yes. We disagree.But I am starting a new trend here. I am not going to say you have low level knowledge because of that. | |
| Cartridge Opinions - Sorry Hi RaulruegasThank you for that.Whatever knowledge I have has taken more than 70 years to acquire.There is too much dogmatism here, as others have observed, but this is entirely understandable. What we want to avoid is slagging one another off or... | |
| Cartridge Opinions - Sorry Hi rauliruegas.I guess there's no-one on this forum that knows more than you.Try not to patronize in every piece you post.You are correct it is fundamental to retain the positional relationship between disc surface and stylus through TT and arm be... | |
| Remember the Ringmat? You should! That's a Garrard sicWith the rumbling idler wheel. The Ringmat damped some of the rumbling, that's all, so it did sound a bit quieter.Why love this kit born when I was in short trousers?I had some Garrards myself. Pre '66. Things have moved on ... | |
| can i recreate the sound of vinyl by encoding the vinyl frequencies onto digital audio? Sorry guitarsam, my post was entirely clear and you add nothing by repeating your proposition with re-emphasis.Put up or shut up with your backyard guitar. Nobody's ever heard it.So perhaps subject it to a double blind listening test. | |
| can i recreate the sound of vinyl by encoding the vinyl frequencies onto digital audio? Show us the way mapman!You are so correct that 99% of vinyl of new music comes from performance recorded to digital. So the vinyl contains the virus. And nor can it sound better than the digital master except by adding artifacts that are judged ... | |
| can i recreate the sound of vinyl by encoding the vinyl frequencies onto digital audio? Hello guitarsam. Are you related to Guitar George? If so I understand a cheap guitar is all you can afford. Do you know all the chords? Do you like to make it cry or sing?If your guitars are better than Fenders and Gibsons, why don't you build... | |
| Newbie to the awesome audiophile world Sorry Millercarbon. Crazy to spend 25% of a $2000 budget on wire. Infinitely better spent on active components at this level where another $500 can buy you big improvements. | |
| ... abit confused: how does a power cord affect the presentation of sound... Let's be logical.It is possible that active power conditioners affect the sound of the system.But if you are talking about 6 feet of power cord with no active component, this can have nil effect as long as it's large enough to carry easily the pow... |