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| Bill Chinook / Bruce Springsteen bdp24The E Street Band doesn’t swing! Look at the drummer; he sits straight up, like the stick up his ...The E Street Band isn't supposed to swing. It's rock, not swing. | |
| Bill Chinook / Bruce Springsteen hifiman5"Born in the USA" invalidates any discussion of Springsteen.If you run every artist through a judgmental political filter, you're going to miss out on a lot of great art, including music. I've never understood those who will only associat... | |
| Anyone else having trouble getting cartridges back they sent for repair? mapmanIt used to be pretty much all cartridges of all types had replaceable styli years ago during the "golden age".Sorry, but you're mistaken. MC cartridges have never had user replaceable styli. | |
| New Transformer on the Pole @gdhal, my reference to a voltage change wasn't to the nominal voltage of your service, but to a possible change to the primary (distribution) voltage before it gets to your transformer. I speculate that because changing transformers is a pricey p... | |
| New Transformer on the Pole It's very likely that the change in transformer was part of other changes in the utility's distribution circuit, including a possible change in the voltage of the distribution circuit itself, improvements made at the electric substation and even p... | |
| High end UPS for Expensive audio eequipments westom09-14-2016 1:40pm You have confused resistance with impedance. No, I'm not confused at all. But like @Eric_Squires, I'm done arguing with you and your notions of a "single ground point" through a grounding rod and other misinformed - and ... | |
| High end UPS for Expensive audio eequipments westom Power supplies already contain robust protection that makes most surges (including mythical ones from household appliances) irrelevant. That's absurd. Few devices contain serious protection against power surges. And I'm not sure why yo... | |
| Power conditioner help emailistsIf you want to contact me I can tell you more about why I chose that power conditioner over others after extensively reviewing the options.Why not please share that info with the entire forum? Isn't that what these forums are for? | |
| Speaker - Room/size dilemma erik_squires" ... Listen to your speakers from around 2' away. Then listen to them in their proper location. The difference in clarity, detail, air, etc. you hear is all due to room acoustics"Not exactly. That's because most speakers are designe... | |
| What's the benefit of balanced tonearm cables? john_tracy"He may have meant a balanced line with RCA termination. That is how I run my set-up. This presupposes that the RCA input of your phono pre is balanced ..."Yes, this can certainly be done, and it's worth repeating because many audio... | |
| What's the benefit of balanced tonearm cables? erik_squires"I've never heard of blanced cabled cancelling cable artifacts."It's not the balanced cabling so much, as using balanced connections into a differential amplifier. By definition, a differential amp should negate any effect of the cab... | |
| Dynavector DV 505 anti-skating question stringreen"As the weight c/g changes with this arm, the suspension will respond detrimentally’What is c/g? What do you mean when you say the " suspension will respond detrimentally?" This doesn’t make sense.There are turntables with lightly-sprung... | |
| Dynavector DV 505 anti-skating question halcro" ... These arms will also not work correctly on suspended turntables."Why not? | |
| Single ended vs xlr balanced erik_squiresRCA's don't lock in place, they more "squeeze in place" vs. EVERY XLR locks. Yes, every XLR locks in place. However, there is such a thing as a locking RCA connector. They are commonly available and they do not "squeeze in place." Th... | |
| In wall AC cables ozzyYour workaround would result in the smaller wire being the rated value. So, don't use a pigtail with a smaller gauge to a larger gauge.Yes, of course, but it's perfectly acceptable to use a pigtail when de-rating wire in the remainder of th... |