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| Tone arm resonance and cartridge compliance: How do they interact?? mijostyn You can not control resonance with different mass counterweights because once the cartridge is balanced you wind up with the same effective mass regardless of counter weight mass. No, that is completely mistaken, and is one of the reason... | |
| Game Changing Tweak Once again, those who clamor most often for blind listening tests reveal they don’t have a clue about valid testing: mijostynYou have to be blindfolded and sitting in your listening position. Have a friend or your wife plug and unplug the unit. A... | |
| No "Room Correction" Topic option. Why? millercarbon ... I have no idea how you get 2 lines of 110 out of 220 ...If you’re in the US, NEC allows a 240VAC line to be split into two 120VAC lines with a shared neutral. You can do this because the two lines are different phases. Each 120VA... | |
| Why don‘t servers/players incorporate polarity switches Many preamplifiers include this function. I don't see any advantage to having the feature in a server. | |
| Shipping. Hard Lesson. If you rely on shipping for your electronics, sooner or later you’re going to suffer damage or loss. It’s inevitable regardless of which carriers you choose to use. Here are some tips that have worked for me.First, document everything, includi... | |
| Focal Headphone Repairs? Given that your dealer has proven useless, I suggest contacting the distributor, which looks like Focal Naim America, in writing. If the best they can offer is that you return the product to the country of origin, I’d ask my dealer for a refund. I... | |
| USB sucks herman ... my statement is absolutely correct. There are an infinite number of voltage levels between any 2 levels. It has nothing to do with bandwidth.You're arguing that analog systems have infinite resolution, which is simply false. It's ... | |
| USB sucks hermanDigital is by definition binary.... high/low, 1/0, true/false, whatever ...Agreed. Analog information is represented by constantly changing voltage levels with an infinite number of possibilities.That’s a common misnomer. It could only be t... | |
| Focal Headphone Repairs? Why not contact your dealer for help? Perhaps he knows where it can be repaired under warranty locally. Perhaps he'll loan you a demo pair while it's being serviced. | |
| Speaker hiss from power amp I’m pretty sure that your amp is a true balanced ("differential") amplifier, so you will get 6dB more gain using the balanced connections than you will from unbalanced. That accounts for the increase in noise which - if you only only hear it when ... | |
| Poor value vs snake oil... mijostyn... As for a double blind is concerned that depends on the honesty of the principle. Just saying something like, "don't you think this sound's better?'" ruins the test entirely. You have to stay perfectly neutral. This sort of thing i... | |
| What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby? millercarbonHow exactly do you usually bias a tone arm?Bias = anti-skate | |
| Ok now I am frustrated with streaming bobby1945I get distortion on specific streams also when streaming from TIDAL via ROON. I have come to the conclusion it is embedded distortion as a result of DRC.What is DRC? | |
| Objective Studies? There are units that will show distortion levels both before and after power treatment, such as some from PS Audio. Of course many units will also stabilize voltage, which is easily measurable.Are those differences audible? As with so many things ... | |
| Mint LP Best Protractor millercarbon ... get the MoFi Geo-Disk for $50 and be done. Works like a charm.I’m not a fan of the MoFi disc and just don’t find it precise enough. I think the best gauges use a mirror (such as the Mint) and align the stylus and cantilever, such... |