davide256
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| Help me build a fine PC sound system Always intereesting to listen to people talk about how to throw their money around. Ignoring all that, heres my recipe for beating down the PC audio issues at lowest price for best results.1) build your PC right to start... GIGO. a) use a stable m... | |
| HELP-Maggie IIIa's are crackling at high frequency I used to have working MG-IIIa's and now have 1.7's. The ribbon tweeter is merciless on bright signal. I found tube dampers helped, I'm using the inexpensive pearls and they make an amazing difference in taming high frequency edge... supposedly th... | |
| Conrad Johnson PV-10A mod experiences? looks like its the usual with audio, fix 1 problem only to reveal another. I've known for a while that I need to send my Sota back for a new bearing but with the old caps the problem hadn't been "glaring". I've swapped in my backup AR ES turntable... | |
| Conrad Johnson PV-10A mod experiences? phono stage is proving a little more tricky. The Multicaps indeed wiped out the transient issues. But they sound "edgy", irritating in the phono stage. Mulling over other choices for the bypass capacitors | |
| Do you leave your components on 24/7? hmmm, looks like opining vs factual experience being offered. Having had tweeters mysteriously blow while I was out, I exercise caution.1)digital electronics like DAC, CD, I turn off when done2) pre amp since tubes, always on (2 hour warm up for p... | |
| Magnum Dynalab 308 drive Magnepan 1.7 or 3.6? mine took 90 days last year. Once you get them, take some warhorse pieces like "night on bald mountain" or like that uses full orchestra loudly,set on repeat, turn amp to preferred volume, exit the room, and come back in 10 hours... they are basic... | |
| Conrad Johnson PV-10A mod experiences? Being a DIY'er at heart I've gone ahead and made some changes which have been highly successful.1> for the line stage section, I have replaced the white CJ design bypass capacitors with like value Multicaps. I choose these because their physics... | |
| Headphone amp and headphones... ? wish I still had my old Stax headphones... Grado's have nice tonal color but no where near the transparency of electrostatics. But oh how electrostatics will drill your ears if you don't have a sweet amp to drive them. | |
| Gremlins Emerge with Switch to Windows 7 PC's come out of the box as a jack of all trades (or master of none). To get them to perform as a music server you basically are doing what any good stock car racer has to do... strip out the useless parts for a performance vehicle from the standa... | |
| MF V-DAC and power supply Stanwal, I'm sure that the VDAC is a nice piece of gear. But when I say base I mean a real challenge with multiple base instruments playing against massed other instruments... in this type of music lesser DAC's start to mumble instead of sing. I a... | |
| MF V-DAC and power supply Looking at your gear, I believe you will find the VDAC to be a short relationship... lacks the power supply for solid low base and complex chords. Consider a reclocker like the Mtech Evo combined with a DLink III or some like combination where the... | |
| Inner Tracks Sound Raspy on a related track, I highly recommend use of a record cleaning machine like Nitty Gritty with fluid scrub and vacuum suction. Airborne dust and stylus deposits hide detail and cause increased stylus wear so there is an easy to justify pay off. Be... | |
| Inner Tracks Sound Raspy the Pro-Ject Align it Cartridge Allignment Tool ($169 at Needle doctor) is very similiar to the Denneson tool I used. This had the virtue that you could lock it into position and was accurate regardless of the spindle, arm bearing center distance ... | |
| Inner Tracks Sound Raspy VTA is basically stylus geometry, groove tilt. Its importance is determined by complexity of stylus shape...a simple elliptical like the Grado signature only has to be approximately right. Other more complex shapes become critical because the actu... | |
| Inner Tracks Sound Raspy one last thought. Its better to track about 0.25 gram heavier than the nominal/minimum weight recommended. This insures that inner grooves, irregular records maintain good stylus contact. Many myths about lower stylus pressure being better, in poi... |