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| Prima Luna Tube Question It sounds like you had some faulty tubes. That's not especially uncommon. | |
| With Internet radio, (streaming) do AM\FM tuners serve any purpose in HEA? Internet radio has not rendered good tuners obsolete, imo. A first-class FM signal will walk all over the typically digitally compressed streamed radio station, and this can be especially noticeable on live broadcasts. Of course, most FM stations ... | |
| Best MM? chakster ... the founder of the Grado himself (Joseph Grado, not John Grado who's his son ...John is not Joseph Grado's son; he is his nephew. | |
| Requirements for Moving Coil setup sleepwalker6510-27-2018 8:43pmMost moving coil cartridges are low compliance, and are meant to be used on a low compliance tonearm. I doubt the JVC would be equipped with a low compliance tonearm ... Technics turntables that have mid-high compl... | |
| 'Diamond' cantilevers: a man's best friend? chaksterTry Dynavector KARAT 17DS from the 80s, this is the most affordable MC with Gemstone cantilever, very nice cartridge!That was a good cartridge more than 35 years ago. Today, I'd rather use a new Dynavector 17DX. | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? koan2... please provide some fact-based explanation as to why speaker cables may require breaking in. I will keep an open mind ... until any plausible explanation is presented, I've got to call BS.It doesn't sound like your mind is very open.... | |
| Platter mat insanity bdp24 ... It was long ago established that an LP groove being traced by a phono cartridge stylus causes the vinyl to vibrate/resonate like crazy, especially if the vinyl is suspended in the air, with no surface below it to absorb and damp th... | |
| Audioquest 5000 or ??? hifimanConsider the newest line of power regenerators from PS Audio ... these units significantly reduce the output impedance of connected equipment ...How can a power regenerator reduce the output impedance of an amplifier? That doesn't seem... | |
| No one actually knows how to lculate what speaker cable they need conradnash10-14-2018 10:27amI may be mistaken here, but isn’t the net effect of this and bi-wiring the same? My understanding is that bi-amping connects one pair of terminals at the amp end along four lengths of wire, connecting to four terminals ... | |
| Do people really just not get it that their items are not selling... fleschler10-13-2018 12:25pmI did just purchase speaker cables at a fire sale price because they are from a highly respected but unknown manufacturer ...How can a manufacturer be highly respected and unknown at the same time? | |
| How to assess and quantify system improvement and changes? twoleftears Audiophiles almost by definition deal in hyperbole; to become a reviewer, first you need to pass a test in hyper-hyperbole.That sounds like hyperbole to me.Notice how systems are so often "transformed" by substituting, e.g., wooden ... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. terry9The thing with isolation transformers is that they hum when they are doing their job, which is protecting your equipment.More commonly, the hum is caused by DC on the line, or by a poorly designed or constructed transformer. I use a few di... | |
| Bryston unauthorised dealers deralte On Bryston's website some unauthorised dealers are mentionned. What did they do wrong to deserve this? They may have done nothing specifically "wrong." Manufacturers have a right to control distribution of their products and those deale... | |
| Poor power in the house furiouslyadriftone way to fix a shunted system is to isolate each ground wire (basically a dedicated ground per device) buts usually much cheaper and easier to go another route ...It's not clear what you mean here. For safety reasons, and to be... | |
| NOS tubes cerecordsThe entire purpose of mass production is to cut costs, and today most of what is mass produced by the millions suffers greatly in quality as a result. That's actually a misnomer. The primary purpose of mass production is to reduce over... |