dgarretson
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| Jazz Noir suggestions Jazz at the Movies Band-- White Heat: Film Noir - LP or CDThe Hot Spot (soundtrack)-- 2x 45RPM LP (=ambient John Lee Hooker) | |
| Top 5 Tonearms Newer or Vintage Under 2500 That Will Beat anything above/below 2.5k? As noted by Nandric, he and I are "long" on SME 3012R, with five or so examples between us. There are a fair number still available, mostly from Japanese sellers. This is a really versatile arm-- working well with both high and low-compliance ca... | |
| Top 5 Tonearms Newer or Vintage Under 2500 That Will Beat anything above/below 2.5k? SME 3012R, Micro S 505 and 808X(good luck finding one!), Technics EPA-100/250/500, TransFi Terminator. | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic In the interest of assessing incremental change over the purported long-term break-in period for TC, I've been trying to resist the temptation of smearing it from lips to tail. Today I added a thin coat to the cartridge pins of a low output Audio... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? @chakster Wow, your reference to my post is from the deep archives. I recall trying the Lightspeed schematic together with battery-powered monolithic Nat Semi buffers. I ended up (and still employ) the Lightspeed schematic as a volume control in a... | |
| Oppo Ceasing production Of equal or greater concern to the high-end is the imminent bankruptcy of Gibson. That could force it to shed or fold its audio brands TEAC, Onkyo, and Esoteric. | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic @grannyring With good lighting and magnification I find it relatively easy to see into the terminals. The issue is finding a good applicator for that "wet work." The supplied brush is too large. | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic Yes. I could have treated the tabs but didn't need to. The 10awg bundle of ten 20awg silver strands is divided at the termination into two twists of five strands each. That "fork" of two wires slips nicely into both sides of the Furutech fitting,... | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic I was slow on the upswing, as the memory of removing dried, caked-up Walker SST from the inside of tube sockets had been a kind of audio PTSD. Learning that TC doesn’t age badly like that, together with good advice from Agon member audiotweak, enc... | |
| Ethernet Cables, do they make a difference? @lalitk and OP,Agreed. I bought a Supra CAT 8 after experiencing several generic CAT 5 & 6 cables. I can hear an improvement that is worthwhile for the small increment in cost. My audio sub-net is just 1M in all directions, so it’s easy to exp... | |
| Benefits of adding a 10MHz Master Clock to a digital system I'm into it as well, and also determined to escaping the financial hypertrophy of vetted high-end marques. After all it's a lab instrument. I have a Stanford Research Systems Perfection 10mHz Rubidium clock powered at 12Vdc by a Hynes SR-7. This... | |
| Ess Company @statman Interesting. My move after a decade with ESS was to Magnepan 3.3R. However, I became less patient with Maggy than with ESS, and progressed very quickly to Wilson and beyond. | |
| Ess Company I had a long relationship with ESS AMT1 towers 1975-1989. Spent most of my summer income between college years on those speakers. I’ve heard the "new" models at several recent shows. Their performance doesn’t measure up to memories of youth... but... | |
| Thumbs up for ultrasonic record cleaning Thanks for mentioning the Versa-Clean. I just ordered it to compare to the mix of Everclear and Photo-flo that I’m using in my Elmasonic P. After a 20 minute ultrasonic bath I rinse/vac with distilled water and TergiKleen on a VPI 16.5. This evacu... | |
| DIY Jumper Suggestions Dead soft .999 silver 8awg or 10awg round wire from Rio Grande on-line. No degradation associated with spades or solder joints. The 8awg has the right stiffness to hold a complete curve around the binding post. |