dgarretson
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| Walker or VPI motor controller with scoutmaster? A new entrant is Mark Kelly's Synchrotron AC-1. Available in kit form only, the AC-1 derives 120VAC from a large 12V SLA battery. Build cost ca $500-$700 including battery. It has the theoretical advantage over single-phase controllers like SDS an... | |
| Rich; organic true balanced amp w good detail $6k I went from an ARC VT130 to a BAT VK75SE. I later modded the BAT with V-Caps and a few other minor changes that significantly improved resolution, neutrality, dynamics, bass extension & control-- IMO putting the amp at par with a top OTL. Ther... | |
| Copper foil Rather than explore relevant Bessel functions & Maxwell equations in a non-technical forum, I suggest that doubters spend $100 at McMaster-Carr for some electronics-grade copper of equivalent gauges in both formats & experiment. You will b... | |
| Copper foil Palerider, Far from "hi-fi legend," skin effect at AC is well documented as variation in impedance against frequency that occurs at difference depths of a conductor. The effect becomes pronounced at frequencies above a few kHz. It's not true that ... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock Ehider, I agree that too few direct comparisons are made between RBCD and the benchmark of great vinyl when judging the performance of a CDP. However, I make this comparison every day, and have come to the conclusion that it is indeed possible for... | |
| Got a New CD Player and Now I'm Bummed French fries, I can confirm the substance of Doug Deacon's remarks after going back & forth on my VPI TNT between thread drive vs. stock rubber bands, with and without PLC and Mark Kelly's AC-1 two-phase speed controller. The rubber bands don'... | |
| Sony scd-1 vs Ayre C5xe Richard Kern was the first modder to dig into & mod the unit and work with the Audiocom Superclock. He posted his early findings to the forums circa Y2K, and was greeted by an ocean of skeptics who doubted that the stock player could be improv... | |
| Sony scd-1 vs Ayre C5xe Rugyboogie,Options & costs vary considerably depending on whether you DIY or outsource mods. VSE has mostly cornered the market with its drop-in, productized, fully warrantied replacement analog stage, clock & lite mods to power (for $1500... | |
| Silliest audiophile equipment of all time? Freemand, I doubt there are very many americans in $140,000 homes who are evaluating Wilson Alexandrias. However, at the peak of the housing bubble, you could probably have found a mortgage broker willing to finance purchase of Wilson speakers wit... | |
| Copper foil The ends can be folded down to a pointed triangle and shaped with needle-nose pliers for crimping & soldering inside a convention spade. Alternatively the ends can be folded into several thicknesses and punched for direct copper termination. A... | |
| Copper foil For speaker cables, try 5mil x 2", or 7mil x 2" for more LF emphasis. | |
| Got a New CD Player and Now I'm Bummed Also, before abandoning the Scout, considering trying a carpet thread in place of the stock rubber band. The thread should be able to get grip on the pulley, assuming that you have the 300 RPM motor. I think you'll find that bass gets tighter, tre... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock I believe this is defined more by the time-base("atomic accuracy" as determined by atoms within an element shifting between discrete states of energy) than it is by the element per se. Clocks with atomic accuracy can utilize Rubidium, as stated by... | |
| Silliest audiophile equipment of all time? Swampwalker, I agree with you regarding the silliness of $500 wood knobs, but with the qualification that in a passive TVC, a knob of exotic hardwood in combination with a hardwood chassis might be desireable for resonance control or RFI rejection... | |
| Silliest audiophile equipment of all time? Jax2, You may be referring to Audio Consulting, whose Silver Rock transformers make an extraordinarily good, if expensive, TVC or modded CDP analog stage. RAM & Audio Consulting are nature boys insofar as they embrace wood chassis, exotic lacq... |