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| The 5 stages of making a bad audio purchase atdavid ou could have assumed that people who are here are adults ...I’m not at all sure that’s a safe assumption. There seem to be several juveniles who regularly post here - based on their simplistic renderings - and their clamoring to be treat... | |
| The science of opinion ... atdavidnothing I say will speak as loudly as the silence ... the silence of addressing what I sayThat silence - which you acknowledge speaks more loudly than your wordy screeds - reflects the nature of your vacuous renderings. | |
| US source of Panzerholtz? pryso... apparently Corian includes flakes of aluminum in the compound. But there is no specification for size or quantity of those flakes, so the resonance characteristic can vary from one brand to another.That can't be correct, because DuPo... | |
| Turntable for a Newbie! glennewdickTechnics 1500c is probably the best bets out there, proven reliability and long term resale value is also something to consider. The 1500C is likely a good value. But it's been on the market for less than a year, so any remarks abo... | |
| VPI's new "Vanquish" Ultra High-End turntable is a STUNNER! lewmBr3098, The Vanquish is direct drive. Only the second such ever produced by VPI. On that level, it can honestly be said to be truly new and possibly improved compared to its single antecedent. The Vanquish is actually VPI's third DD turntab... | |
| Need help with a power cable decision Given that you already have the PS cord, why not try it for yourself? The best anyone here can offer is a guess about how it would sound in your system. | |
| VPI's new "Vanquish" Ultra High-End turntable is a STUNNER! fsonicsmithAt this level, I don’t understand VPI’s failure to design around two inherent compromises that VPI is infamous for implementing; 1) a junction box instead of continuous wiring from cartridge pins to connector of choice ...My understandi... | |
| Vinyl “Pops & Clicks” eliminators mijostynYou are playing your records at a pressure of 52 thousand psi ...You might want to back off on your VTF a little bit. That kind of pressure would poke a hole right through an LP and possibly damage your platter, too. | |
| Funny thing happened after my neighbor moved. I don’t want to be the pessimist here, but establishing cause-and-effect can be a tricky business. There could easily be other reasons for the change in your system’s performance. For example, electric utilities routinely make changes in their dis... | |
| Can an IC based amp be considered 'high end'? pragmasiAmplifiers based on integrated circuits (chips) rather than discrete transistors.Either of those are solid state technologies. | |
| Can an IC based amp be considered 'high end'? pragmasi Most, if not all amplifiers that are regarded as 'high end' are either valve or solid state designs. What else is there? | |
| Vinyl “Pops & Clicks” eliminators mijostyn If you continue to use "common sense" as your principle metric in life I guarantee you will make one mistake after another. Common sense has served me very well in life and I have no plan to abandon it. | |
| Vinyl “Pops & Clicks” eliminators mijostyn Soundsmith says the contact area of it’s line contact stylus is 50um2. 1 um2 = 1.55 e-9 inches2. This means 50 um2 = 0.0000000077 inches2. 2 grams = 0.004 lb . 0.004/0.0000000077 = 51,948lb/inches2.52 thousand psi. So now guys lets do th... | |
| Beware: New (at least to me) scam being run on Audiogon members Thanks for the head's up on this. I'm pleased to read about Audiogon's swift response, but not surprised. They really have a dedicated and caring team. | |
| Vinyl “Pops & Clicks” eliminators lewmIn my opinion, playing LPs under a dust cover induces more sonic degradation in the form of coloration than a tick or pop as forms of noise. I think that depends on the particular turntable and dustcover. I would have agreed with you back ... |