cousinbillyl
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| LONDON Decca, Tzar DST and similar cartridges Just installed the Tzar DST. Everything I've read regarding midrange and treble is true. There is a rightness to the sound that no other cartridge I've owned can touch. Piano is to die for. Complex and loud jazz pieces are easily reproduced. Femal... | |
| Experimenting with reversing polarity to speakers Taken one step further, especially with vinyl, the album itself may be out of phase. | |
| Why pay so much for super high end? My wife has enough shoes and bras to open her own store. What's the markup on those items?.A cousin has watches displayed on pedestals, some costing over $100K each. Fabulous timepieces, what's the markup?.I used to own the Jaguar XK8 convertible.... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? If I may, let's look at the diamond on the end of the cantilever.This was installed by human hands. Let's assume some type of jig was used. They now glue the diamond to the cantilever, and the glue dries. Opps, glue doesn't dry in a uniform fashio... | |
| Sanity test before you start this hobby We are a brotherhood, and we span the earth. Neither race color or creed will divide us. We are the meek, and we shall inherit the earth.Welcome | |
| HIGH Quality Electric Service Panel Plitron manufactures toroidal transformers. They are affiliated with Torus. Torus builds a dedicated toroidal powered breaker box. This 'box' is no different from your standard breaker box, except that it houses a toroid to purify the electricity ... | |
| THE WALL---Why? Here in Ontario, Hydro plays games with our electricity. We are often at 125V or higher. The question is: what have they done to manipulate the power. Plugging into the wall is not ideal.My Torus conditioner is used to drop that down to 120V. The ... | |
| New dedicated line & outlets sound worse, not better- HELP! I enjoy getting laughed at, so here goes.Let's look at one wire, the 'hot' wire of one outlet. This is a brand new piece of copper, it's nice and shiny. You may have cleaned it before inserting it into the Porter. It looks beautiful. There is a po... | |
| What's the benefit of balanced tonearm cables? This might be a little off topic.I'd like to make a statement, and Ralph is probably the only one that can comment on it.Let's look at the waveform coming from the cartridge. Because it is a balanced source, it looks like a pure Sine Wave. We can ... | |
| What's the deal with idler turntables and do they have a place in modern HiFi? I invested in a Jean Nantais Lenco, Idler drive, $10k.In comparison: CD's are unlistenable, SACD and Hi-res aren't bad, DSD downloads are better, vinyl eclipse all of the above, and not by a little bit.Your miles will not vary. But, stay away from... | |
| Mobile Fidelity Introduces UD1S Analog I'm hoping someone can correct me.The master tape is? - a long piece of tape, with a bazillion little magnets on it. A split second after the recording, those tiny (realigned) magnets start influencing each other, and start trying to shift positio... | |
| I can't play a recording all the way through One day, when you're much older, you'll ditch everything digital, and get back to enjoying music. It took me 15 years.For the time being, your money is important. Spend spend spend. Without you, the high-end can't exist. | |
| Solid core Versus Stranded Speaker cables For the Kimber: if each individual strand is coated, it behaves more like a solid core. You want to stop electron transfer between individual strands. This jumping from one strand to another cause minute arcs. Think Tesla coils but on a tiny scale. | |
| Solid core Versus Stranded Speaker cables There is not a single high end pre amplifier manufacturer that uses a single inch of stranded wire.There are very few high end amplifier manufacturers that use stranded wire.A long time ago Alon Wolf showed the crossover for his Magico Mini, it us... | |
| ???Why The HUGE Discrepancy in Sensitivity Ratings??? I have a website. I have a frequency response section. I come right out and tell everyone: if your stupid enough to believe these figures, I won't sell you a pair of speakers. We've all been lied to for so long, we actually want to read it, and b... |