dewald_visser
Responses from dewald_visser
| Is Digital actually better than Analog? It is a crime tring to compare digital and analogue!Go and look up the word "ANALOGUE". You'll get the anwser instantly. Digital is a mere mathematical formula that resembles the original recording.If a turntable is set up propperly and you have d... | |
| High end turntables Why? 2 tonearms Joseph,Sometimes different cartridges works well with different LP's - depends on how the stylus rides the groove...Two arms or even three makes the playback of different records much easier and better.I designed my turntable to accomodate up to t... | |
| Ever discover good sound right under your nose? Yes - I owned these old QUAD II tube amps for a very long time but they just sat in the closet.One day I decided to pull them out - replace all the internals and get a decent pre-amp and hey presto. I am in Audio Heaven! I can't believe that I did... | |
| Audio Icon/Idol - Who would you like to meet? Mitchell - did mr Sequerra's yelling at you deter you from designing and making audio gear? I know the feeling -DVNB - I did get the chance to meet mr Havenga of Valve Audio - a very nice and funny guy. He is actually very supportive towards me... | |
| Audio Icon/Idol - Who would you like to meet? Albert,Lets stay with audio-persona. No Hollywood peoples - lol. I would like to meet lots of Hollywood guys & gals...When I was just a foot high my father & Charlize Theron's father, Charles used to work together. She was a little girl wi... | |
| Lube for turntable - What do you prefer? Thom - thank you for the feedback.I think I have found the lube for my machine - the sound is open & relaxed with lots of "air" in between. Rumble has gone down to virtually zero and it was a change for the better.You see - I use radical VESCO... | |
| Audio Icon/Idol - Who would you like to meet? How can you guys forget Roger Nichols that engineered Donald Fagen's "The Nightfly"...DV | |
| Lube for turntable - What do you prefer? Guys,I have sound, after careful research that oil is the better choice for lubing the bearing...It is a low tolerance bearing with plastic sleeves and thus the oil be better.Thanx anyway - what I want to know is what do you find works best in you... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Aimee Mann - Lost in Space - MFSL editionELO - TimeHolst - PlanetsDonald Fagen - The NightflyD Visser | |
| Has your gear ever hurt you??? Jamscience,Watch out! Your speakers might jump out and abduct you to speaker-land were they will torture you...Ha-ha-ha...DV | |
| What is the order of power cord priority? Sorry to say - but if your house's electrical network is not up to standard it won't help using expensive power cables. Rather upgrade your interconnects or someting else...Kind regards,Dewald Visser | |
| Has your gear ever hurt you??? I once owned a set of large labyrinth floorstander speakers. One day I picked them up to move them around in the living-room and my back seized up after the second speaker. I don't know how I managed to put the speaker down but there I was laying ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? ELO's "Time". DV | |
| Tweaks for Computer Audio I take "slot-blanks" and drill two holes in them. Take two female RCA chassis sockets and fit into two holes.Solder shielded cable to sockets and onto sound-card L & R outputs - usually on the underside of card near mini-jack socket.This provi... | |
| Some upgrades to a THORENS 145MK2 You sure have 'super-fied' your ol' Thorens allright!Have a look at the Tom Evans Phono-stages - very good indeed...Also Trichord comes to mind.DV |