dgarretson
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| VH Audio Vcaps Sherod, while MR sounds good cold, over 100 hrs soundstage opens & cap becomes supple, relaxed, airy, and natural. I have it in tweeter above 2200 hz. After 100 hours I made other changes to the system and lost track of MR development. I have ... | |
| VPI SSM lacking bite The springs I use are McMaster-Carr P/N 96485K125. They are 1-15/16D x 4L and use .148 diameter wire ground flat at the ends. They compress 23.7lbs/inch, up to a total deflection of 2.88. So a 50lb load compresses each spring about half way do... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil How is the VSF that you tested used in the xover(e.g. tweet, mid, woof)? Which tested caps, if any, were not broken in? | |
| VPI SSM lacking bite "I'm still not sure that internal tt vibrations can travel down springs into the stable surface below that, seems to me vibrations would get caught up in springs, both external and internal generated energy would be fighting each other in spring."... | |
| VPI SSM lacking bite My experience with TT is closer to your analogy of beach on mattress. I have an unsuspended VPI TNT on top of a heavy sandbox on top of large soft springs. It was the only way that I could definitively stop a knuckle rap to the rack below from tra... | |
| Crossover component upgrade, DUELUND???? Claritycap MR took 100 hours or so to relax and open up, after which I installed other upgrades and lost track. | |
| VPI SSM lacking bite Sns, conservation of energy principle says you can't get rid of energy, but rather can only change its form. Someone posted that if sand was enough, why can we still feel the pounding of surf through the beach? Throw a soft spring mattress down on... | |
| VPI SSM lacking bite Sns, the explanation is simple. There are HF vibrations that move bidirectionally between TT and earth. A properly designed compliant suspension can be particularly effective in transforming HF vibration into benign LF mechanical energy. The compl... | |
| Stylus tracking weight guage Also from Old Will Knott consider the $25 Jennings Mini-Scale ordered with optional 100 gm calibration weight. This model is OEM source for another popular stylus force gauge-- with the addition of an angle glued to the perimeter to bring the styl... | |
| David Byrne & Brian Eno The Byrne/Eno is OK, but sounds mostly like the phoned in performance it is. The real Eno solo album is the new U2. | |
| Best Rock Albums in 2009, so far Bonnie Prince Billy "Beware" and Robin Hitchcock & The Venus 3 "Goodnight Oslo." Both albums are among their best work and have fine SQ, particularly on vinyl. | |
| Steam cleaning records 2 These steamers will throw water if the reservoir is overfilled. Be careful with Shark to fill below the line on the supplied measuring beaker. | |
| Is Selling Direct Viable for Manufacturers? The better manufacturers both large and small have effective in-house service & support that can easily be leveraged into a direct sales model. As shrinkage in the domestic retail channel continues, USA will be down to 20-40 meaningful high-en... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil I also use Duelund R and concur with Face. Duelund R sounds both cleaner and smoother in my Merlins than stock Caddock MP power resistors. At some point I will try Duelund C-- but not until I've attended to other mods to components that I believe ... | |
| VH Audio Vcaps If you have the space inside your LS for MR, they should easily surpass Hovland. I subsequently added a .01uf teflon bypass cap to MR. |