dgarretson
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| Audioquest DC cables - why are there almost no high end DC cables? You folks may be over-invested in the star-quad construct. I made several PCs that way from TFT-insulated silver-plated copper wire that were subsequently trounced by thicker, pure silver wire in a simple twisted pair with a foil shield. It's wo... | |
| Audioquest DC cables - why are there almost no high end DC cables? I make my own DC umbilicals with Oyaide connectors and bundles of stranded 20awg .999 dead soft silver wire from Rio Grande, inside polyolefin heat-shrink tube from McMaster Carr. The effective gauge totals around 11awg. I'm using them from a Hy... | |
| Store auditioning and then buying on-line from others. How do you feel about it ? I have never walked into a brick-and-mortar shop without the motivation, funds, and a price in my head that I would be willing to pay if the demoed equipment passes muster and the retailer will negotiate. Otherwise it’s a waste of time and energy ... | |
| ROON help needed Is your Dell tablet running Android 4.4 OS or higher? 4.4 is the minimum for Roon(5.0 is recommended.) Roon’s Remote software can be quirky on some tablets. I have intermittent problems with the Remote software on a Lenovo i7 Helix running Windows... | |
| More Bad News AT Thiel Take a look at their "3rd Avenue Collection" in the Shop section of the web site. These are the speakers that were developed post-acquisition, prior to their recent pivot into life-style and blue-tooth. They are already referring to the 3rd Aven... | |
| CleanerVinyl-Ultrasonic record cleaner @pryso I spent some time with steam cleaning in combination with a VPI 16.5. The improvement with a good US + 16.5 wet vacuum is significant. | |
| CleanerVinyl-Ultrasonic record cleaner @dmgrant1 It's an Elmasonic P60H. It has several interesting features, including 37 and 80khz frequencies, de-gas, sweep, and pulse modes, and is quieter than the Chinese machines. | |
| CleanerVinyl-Ultrasonic record cleaner @slaw The potential issue is excessive heat, not force or pulsing action per se. Keeping the LP in rotation and the bath temp below 45C addresses the heat issue. In addition, the Elma allows you to dial down the pulsing mechanism, if desired. | |
| CleanerVinyl-Ultrasonic record cleaner Slaw wrote:" I forgot to plug in my Vinyl Stack after turning my 40khz US cleaner on for a 30 minute cycle. I was worried but could hear no damage."I've also done this with a cheap Chinese US machine and experienced no damage. But when I forgot t... | |
| CleanerVinyl-Ultrasonic record cleaner IME much is gained by following US cleaning with a vacuum rather than air dry. The US machine removes crud, but also leaves loosened debris on the LP for extraction by the vacuuming. I start with 20 minutes in the Elmasonic, and end with a TergiKl... | |
| Aurender N100h vs. SOtM sms-200 Ultra I have not heard them side by side, but am personally won over by the SOtM/MicroRendu construct of a client Ethernet-to-USB endpoint, networked via ethernet to a generic computer-grade NAS mass storage server. The SOtM/MicroRendu paradigm is a bui... | |
| 300 rpm motor for VPI Check the run-out on the 300pm motor pulley. The pulley that came with my 300 RPM upgrade wobbled. VPI replaced it. | |
| Charley Hansen (Ayre) Passed Away I found Charlie's recent posts to AA that forcefully challenged the audio print magazines to straighten up, were fascinating and astonishingly impassioned and well-informed. Those posts are epitaphs to a man who contributed as much and cared as d... | |
| Technics EPA-100 MK2 wiring @chakster Thanks for the URL to Audiogears Luxman tonearm bases. I have been machining brass top plates for various tonearms, but not the underlying sled mechanisms. Audiogears's pricing is reasonable relative to old stock units on ebay. For tho... | |
| Technics EPA-100 MK2 wiring @chaksterJim Howard of Applied Fidelity(RIP) once mentioned to me that rewiring the EPA-100 is worthwhile. He also replaced the stock ruby ball bearings with silicon nitride balls-- which were claimed to be rounded to a tighter tolerance. I own ... |