cleeds
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| What do/did you do for a living? Asked and answered by more than 600 Audiogon users.See this. | |
| ... abit confused: how does a power cord affect the presentation of sound... There are many existing threads about power cords.Here’s one.Here’s another.And another, with nearly 500 responses!Aaaaaaannnnnd another.And so many more. They might be a good place for you to start. | |
| What will audiophiles do Different? Digital has come so far that I’d probably not get into analog. LP was the dominant format when I got into music and audio and I still enjoying playing records. After all, the best version of many recordings is the LP and some great recordings have... | |
| Can anything be down about this? There must be an agenda! vittlesIn the analog age, original master tape recordings were 16bit/48 kHz. Vinyl LPs were pressed from these sources.In the analog age there was no digital. Original master tape recordings were analog, the whole signal chain was analog. | |
| 6550 Replacement Tube for ARC Reference 6 roberjermanThat 6550 is used as a regulator in the power supply. Any old 6550 will do!Absolutely not true and very bad advice. The OP should check with his dealer or ARC for the most recent 6550 tube recommendations and then go from there. It’s n... | |
| Everything Matters With Digital dougeyjonesIt’s a little maddening for people who are empirically minded to see others set money ablaze over the placebo affect.That's pretty colorful language, but there's no evidence that anyone here is setting "money ablaze."If you find this g... | |
| Stereophile complains it's readers are too informed. Stereophile seems pretty straightforward to me and they seem to be clear about their measurements. Of course, measurements can never tell the whole story and they're not a substitute for listening. Stereophile is one of the few magazines that actu... | |
| AT-ART9 cartridge on Marantz TT-15s1 - I don't think I'm getting the performance I should izgoblin That manual focuses more on the quick and easy alignment of the cart that it shipped with, which I found to track well but offered a completely unengaging sound on the best recordings ...If you found the sound "un-engaging" perhaps th... | |
| Stereophile complains it's readers are too informed. Did you read the article? I don't see anything in it to support your conclusion. | |
| How do you all ensure correct polarity with aftermarket cables? testpilotTerminals are clearly marked for polarity for the sole purpose to insure that both the Left and Right speakers are wired with the same polarity.That is mistaken. There can be other reasons that it's necessary to maintain polarity.For ... | |
| Expanding questions about tubes in a preamp tomic601... ALL tubes to some degree ARE microphonic. Some less so than others- certainly a classic case is the 6922 vs 6DJ8. Huh? A 6922 is a 6DJ8. They're the same tube, just different nomenclature. | |
| AT-ART9 cartridge on Marantz TT-15s1 - I don't think I'm getting the performance I should izgoblin ... my cart doesn't appear to be tracking a lot of records well at all ... I've played a lot of '80s hard rock and metal, and I can almost count on any album from that era cut on the Atlantic label in these subgenres to give me dist... | |
| Everything Matters With Digital djones51If it’s digital in and digital out why do you have a modem?C’mon, are you really claiming that your ISP provides you with an analog signal? I suppose it’s possible, but it’s difficult to believe.Modem = 𝗠𝗼dulate𝗗𝗲𝗺odulate.My cable modem (... | |
| Everything Matters With Digital djones51... Consider how much time and money you have invested in your internet modem the device that reconstructs the analog to digital signal ...Huh? What kind of ISP are you using? My modem doesn't "reconstruct" analog to digital. It's digi... | |
| Can anything be down about this? There must be an agenda! Loudness Wars. This is why some people still play LPs - the best sounding version of many recordings is on vinyl. |