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| Putting together turntable rig Has anyone here listened to a top flight MM or MI on a Schiit Sol? This elegantly designed and very affordable player may be too cheap to warrant attention from deep pocketed audio snobs but where does it fail in actual listening performance?High... | |
| Can a speaker just die? If the intermittent is inside the amp, rodman is probably correct and his instructions are spot on. However, if the wire connections to the spade is where the problem lies that has to be fixed properly by reterminating with a new spade. Or at leas... | |
| What Are Your Reference Discs? or Specific Reference Tracks While it's true you can tell a lot about a system from how it reproduces Howling Wolf's voice on a mono mid-60s Chess album, it ain't really demo material in my book...Here are some of my favorite music selections that also display the recording a... | |
| Right angle wall plug on power cables On page 5 of their pricebook, Nordost offers 8 plug alignments for their dealers to specify when ordering...also 4 each for tonearm DIN plugs and Ethernet plugs. | |
| How to fix my preamp dilemma 1. Fix the Parasound...least cost probably and gets you back to where you were happy.2. Schiit does indeed make fantastic gear for paltry dollars.3. Akitika is also a terrific value, but has way more features than you likely need and if you deck ... | |
| klipsh scala speakers Speaking as one who is no fan of Klipsch products, but who has sold them professionally, the latest Forte should be the ticket for your son...quite sensitive, and much fuller range and better balanced than La Scalas, and therefore more forgiving. ... | |
| Flipping record causing series of loud pops For many of my years in this hobby, static plagued my enjoyment of vinyl playback. I used to (carefully) remove the polonium strip from a Staticmaster brush and glue it to the underside of a Watts Dust Bug until I found the needle talk to be audib... | |
| Low power amps and speaker damage? I’ve seen my share of fused voice coils on all manner of drivers, from el cheapo to Wilson Audio, and the culprit is almost always the same...inebriation, ignorance, and raging hormones. Technically, it’s clipping that does it, as stated very cle... | |
| Why do people say low power amps should be good for bookshelf speakers? Salesperson speaking here...Noromance & aewarren are on the right track. The BB SP was making an assertion that contained an assumption, which is not great critical thinking, but the gist of it is that people who want big sound in big rooms s... | |
| Springsteen and Clapton on their favorite, heh, band. @onhwy61I so agree about 'The Band' being a masterpiece. The poignancy of 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" still brings a tear to my eye, and I'm no admirer of the Lost Cause. But if one is, this song speaks to why. They evoke "Americana" ... | |
| I had a few drinks and bought some speakers TBH, Sopra 1s might have been better for your room size, but if you like your bass response set to 11, you will have no regrets. Both are among my favorites. Enjoy, but keep an eye on your liver function... | |
| High expectations when listening to an orchestra Orchestral sound is perceived by each of us at each performance from the seat we have purchased, not from the location where the mics are suspended from the ceiling, so acheiving a facsimile of our memory on playback is a work of imagination, not ... | |
| What is your favorite album cover? Gentle Giant Octopus & Low Spark...unusual shapesTull Thick As A Brick...funny!Hendrix Axis: Bold As Love, Abraxis & Miles’ Live/Evil, Dead Blues For Allah...psychedelic Stones Some Girls...and TalkingHeads’ Remain In Light (b/c of what’s ... | |
| The Wand turntable Mijo dislikes unipivots on principle, so all of us with treasured unipivot tonearms (or memories of same) must be in error. I'll let that thought stay right there. That said, the new Schiit Loki turntable looks like a much more sanely priced tic... | |
| phase linear 500 watt per chanell amp Darn that auto correct and my Jewish upbringing! God’s gift. |