dgarretson
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| New favorite VINYL Album? Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, Marble Son. The double LP comes with a CD, but without the vinyl you'll never know how wwll she does like a young Marianne Faithful backing wicked psychedelic R&R. Among the year's best. | |
| stepped attenuators Rgs92, I've placed an order for a 41-step 100K Acoustic Dimensions 8-deck balanced switched ladder attenuator that will do -80db. This is -15db to -20db more attenuation than most stepped attenuators. Moreover, this unit is not much larger than th... | |
| What is Warmth? Agree with Raul and add that warmth in a positive sense is communicated as musical flow, a phenomenon of dynamics and timing more than frequency response. | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Another way to embellish HF is to bypass the tweeter cap. I'd be interested to hear others' experiences on this point. | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Volleyguy, I suppose that once the treble has been purged of artificial resonance excitements and is more clearly delineated, one is in a better position to experience the subtleties of what a good supertweeter can do on top. Moreover there are a ... | |
| Cheap tweaks...What would YOU reccomend? Probably said somewhere above, but cleaning every connector and tube pin & socket with a good contact cleaner can work wonders. | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Further to the ClarityCap resonance study, I'll add that listening to a low-resonance capacitor-- or a low-resonance wire, assuming that this is the purpose of the oiled silk jackets on the Duelund wire-- can take some getting used to. Once the mi... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Volleyguy, in the key areas of performance the Duelund wire does much better than the old Cardas stranded copper, and maybe will continue to open up through extended break-in. It's interesting that in the course of PMing an audio friend who had al... | |
| CD's vs Vinyl - Finally hear the difference I'm not alone in this-- the experience is shared by several acquaintences with top digital front ends. Give it a try overnight, you may like it. | |
| CD's vs Vinyl - Finally hear the difference Really! I'd be interested to hear others' experiences on this. | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Volleyguy, be interesting to have your viewpoint on a stereo pair with the Duelund silver wire. After a few hundred hours I'm still undecided about this wire. The presentation has lots of satisfying weight and embodiment, but may be a tad over-dam... | |
| CD's vs Vinyl - Finally hear the difference A CDP has the disadvantage of requiring 4-6 hrs or more warm-up to sound its subtle best. A TT drive system reaches most of its potential in a half hour or so. So practically speaking, for a fair comparison between the formats the CDP should be le... | |
| CD's vs Vinyl - Finally hear the difference Dev, I want to be democratic and give/take as much as possible, knowing that vinyl involves more of a learning curve than most aspects of audio and everyone is moving along on that continuum. Thus generalizations about vinyl are really only intere... | |
| CD's vs Vinyl - Finally hear the difference Okay, I over-reacted to Dev's post. But what got me going is also evident in Dev's last post-- that to surpass your reference digital system required a "new journey" into analog with esoteric equipment or set-up skills. (You are still a bit myster... | |
| CD's vs Vinyl - Finally hear the difference Has2be, I don't dispute the criticality of proper set-up or knowledge generously disseminated by some experts on the forums. My problem is with those who maintain that correct set-up is less commonly sighted than a unicorn. Vinyl can tend toward b... |