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| lush cartridge under $1500 used(?) You're considering buying a used cartridge?? That's a risky proposition unless you plan to have it immediately retipped, which is another risky proposition. | |
| Balanced Preamp recommendations up to $5,500 perazzi280Unless you are heavily invested in balanced interconnects and components with balanced input connectors, I am baffled by your criteria that limits the preamplifier to balanced inputs and outputs. The OP makes perfect sense to me. It ... | |
| Why does all new pop music sound the same? chayro ... IMO, the "top 40" of the 60s and 70's was more varied in nature than the current music being played on stations like WKTU, which I listen to ...That's certainly true, but it reflects the changes in radio broadcasting and corporate o... | |
| Dealers hijacking the discussions viridianI am on the record disliking dealers.That's just prejudice. As with all prejudice, it's rooted in ignorance. | |
| Is there any danger in leaving a class D amp on unattended for ten days? willemj Human sonic memory is not more than a few seconds ... While auditory memory is shorter than visual memory, to suggest that auditory memory lasts for just a few seconds is an oft-repeated claim by audio measurementalists such as yourself. ... | |
| Mounting a Jelco Tonearm Setting up a pickup arm may be a tricky process, but it's not exactly rocket science. helomech is correct - the goal is not to get the cartridge in the middle of the headshell. There's no reason a Dennesen Soundtracktor can't be used to set the p... | |
| Radio personalities dillCousin Brucie - NYCBruce is still alive and working - he's on Sirius/XM, if you care.... keeping it in mostly NYC ... Scott Muni, Pete Fornatale, Bob Louis, John Zacherle, Allison Steele, Viv Roundtree ...Jay Thomas. | |
| Bi Wire vs Speaker Jumpers david_tenFurther, the cables (and amps) don’t need to be exactly the same either, as some prefer to fine-tune the hi and low frequencies. I’ve had good outcomes using completely different cables and amps.This doesn't make any sense. I think you a... | |
| Can cables of any cost and quality provide bass response missing in my B&W speakers? compass_rose Strictly OT, but FWIW...“cleeds”...back in the day CCA was in fact the “go-to” residential conductor wire...however, because of well-documented hazards with this wire (mainly due to its adverse expansion- contraction propertie... | |
| Balanced Preamp recommendations up to $5,500 madavid0What about true balanced (ie, dual mono) tube HIGH BANDWIDTH preamp? Does such a thing exist on the face of the Earth?True balanced and dual mono are two different things completely. | |
| Can cables of any cost and quality provide bass response missing in my B&W speakers? oldguideAluminum wire is prohibited by code from any home or commercial wiring, so ...Actually, aluminum wiring is very much allowed in the U.S. under the NEC, although I don’t trust the stuff. It’s also almost universally used for electric distr... | |
| 20 Year Old Amplifiers compared to 2017 jssmith That's why I always say "If you didn't hear it blind, you didn't hear it."That's silly. I hear my system make lovely sounds quite frequently, yet I almost never listen to it blind. | |
| NSMT Speakers? nsmt21 posts12-20-2017 1:03pmJust a followup to the troll by audiokinesis about our Chorus speaker ...I don't want to pile on, but a first-time poster calling another a troll is almost a certain indication that the first-time poster is himself th... | |
| Dedicated power circuits... Huge improvement!!! randy-1112-19-2017 3:47pmhow much have people had to pay to add a dedicated line to an existing house?The labor can be as big a cost factor as the materials, and the cost of labor hinges on a few factors, including the complexity of the project.... | |
| Lowering the noise floor georgehif90% of systems these days have enough gain from the source and in the poweramp so a passive pre can be used, this get’s rid of a large source of noise, the "active preamp"If your active preamp is a "large source of noise," you really ... |