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| Stacking Components Stacking is especially unwise with phono stages, which work with very low signals and are vulnerable to noise. | |
| HiFi News Test Record Azimuth chakster@cleeds No, I think you didn’t get the point. It’s not about platter, mat or clamp or ring weight that anyone can use. It’s about vinyl record profile (you can’t change it)@chakster I understand your point about the LP's profile. My po... | |
| HiFi News Test Record Azimuth chakster ... only Flat Profile from the lead-in groove to the run-out groove can guarantee there is no pitch to the profile, allowing your stylus to play truly perpendicular to the grooves from edge to center ... look at the profile thickness, con... | |
| HiFi News Test Record Azimuth millercarbonIf the cartridge is well made then the stylus is aligned with the cantilever is aligned with the generator is aligned with the body. Therefore we can look at the body. So what do we need a mirror for? Using the reflection magnifies... | |
| Turntable isolation platform Recommendations? mijostyn Critical Mass and Townsend make inexpensive, 1/2 baked stuff that no respectable lab would ever put an electron microscope on. A turntable's requirements are just as stringent.Perhaps that's true for a cheap turntable, but what many a... | |
| Power cord choice? danvignauOnce again, sales pitches from commissioned people are influencing buying choices.So it's a conspiracy, is that what you're claiming?... I have always enjoyed watching people continue wasting time, as I am now doing, striving to adj... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality optimizeA CD drive and a CD disc use many techniques to ensure that the data is error free.Quite so, and read errors from a CD that has been reasonably well cared for are rare. Data encoded on a CD are redundant, and CIRC allows most errors to... | |
| HiFi News Test Record Azimuth kunalraiker What is the mirror method?You can use the reflection of the bottom of a phono cartridge in a mirror to set azimuth, by ensuring the bottom of the cartridge is parallel to its reflection.Some mirrored phono alignment gauges also include... | |
| To Stream or not to Stream izjjzi OP21 posts07-27-2021 9:36amI am paralyzed. There are so many options, reviews, recommendations... I am truly frozen, unable to choose. Wish it were easy ... I think I've already researched too much and will always be second guessing ...... | |
| Power cord choice? vinylshadowThe 156 is a very good unit but I couldn't figure out why it had a 20A power cord and IEC inlet but 15A outlets ...That's like ARC, which ships preamps with 20A cords even though 15A would more than suffice. But ARC thinks the 20A plu... | |
| So how much do you think the placebo effect impacts our listening preferences? rols I mean, people have been operated on without anaesthetic and not felt pain thanks to placebo ...That sounds extremely doubtful unless other techniques were used, such as this. Otherwise, it would be an unconscionable experiment. | |
| Why does Esoteric refuse to update its older models ? iaa_award_collectors_on_facebookAnd Teac investors were Gibson, Integra, Onkyo....TEAC is NOT on its own. Wouldnt survive without larger corporations investing.Gibson sold its stake in TEAC. TEAC actually has many investors - it's a publicly trad... | |
| Quality outlets for non-audio I think all of the manufacturers make contractor-grade devices, and that's what I avoid. The better devices grip better and are more durable, but they cost more than the cheapie units. Hubbell and Leviton have both served me well. | |
| Power cord choice? turnbowmYou seem to be making some very broad assumptions which are simply wrong.That’s an interesting accusation but without an example it doesn’t mean anything.I’m well acquainted with series-mode and parallel-mode surge suppressors/conditioner... | |
| Power cord choice? turnbowmFurman uses the term "Power Factor" while Audioquest calls it "Power Correction."I think you’re spending a little too much time reading manufacturer’s brochures and not enough time understanding what’s going on. Audioquest can use whateve... |