dynacohum
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| Complete vinyl system, TT to speakers, for $1500? Teac 3BSE includes an AT cart and RIAA Equalizer/preamp. Sells for $529.00 USD, here. Maybe less there…looks better quality than Fluance,with an SAEC knife edge bearings tonearm. For a small room, a Chinese FOSI BT20A is excellent and sufficient f... | |
| Canare 4S11"G" now available! Audioquest trains salespeople to their cable ideology. The “Metallurgy” phase teaches that higher purity metal (lower oxygen) has fewer crystal junctions per unit of length. The Ohno linear crystal drawing process is the end state of this spectrum... | |
| One Thousand Dollars Erik, I enjoy reading your audio posts, but on this…admittedly a matter of taste…I cannot agree less. Talking Heads was the last rock band I fully, totally loved before deciding popular music was not exciting me any more, specifically because of... | |
| RCA Y- cable or is an A/B switch required? All AVRs have PCM compatible Toslink or SPDIF coaxial inputs. Why not use one of those for the AVR hookup? | |
| How can you evaluate a system with highly processed music? Listen to and enjoy whatever kind of music gives you pleasure. But to form an opinion on the sonic accuracy of reproduction you have to use identifiably reliable sources. It can be any kind of music…polka, flamenco, marching band, bluegrass, Schub... | |
| How do you high pass your main speakers? If you have preamp outputs and amp inputs, you can use this inexpensive device to act as a very configurable electronic crossover: Dayton Audio DSP-408. Get the Bluetooth dongle with it. I hear it’s sound can be improved by using a 15V power br... | |
| Why are these called 5 way binding posts? I count four! Great little conversation you got here. My 2 cents is the alligator clip is a red herring. The double banana is the 5th way, or was until the EU got involved. | |
| Suggestions for Phono Preamp I just got a Pro-Ject PhonoBox DS3. It has balanced and unbalanced I/O, front panel switches for Gain, fixed or continuously variable R, and C. Totally convenient for all parameters. I’m using it balanced in from a new Thorens TD1600 with a new ... | |
| SPDIF splitter Bbag20, I am old, that’s your coot. In my career in audio I had the reputation of being a bit of a stickler for facts and unsympathetic to bs. That’s your crusty! | |
| Digital And Analogue Cables My Audio education taught me that a “digital coaxial” cable was just another name for the once commonly used “composite video” cable. Both operated in the same frequency spectrum and both were 75 Ohms. The chief Monster marketed the exact same cab... | |
| SPDIF splitter Gefen, Atlona, Binary are brands considered to be reliable. Fiio is a cheaper version also well regarded. | |
| SPDIF splitter You don’t want a splitter, you want a switch. Or you want a coax to optical converter. Whether either device will degrade the signal…that’s up to your ears to decide. The “everything matters” crowd will say it inevitably does. I would try the co... | |
| Shure Bulletin (written in 1954) Shure later realized that their position of dominance in the US market gave them the standing to propound that “trackability” at minimum tracking force was the goal of high quality record playback. This notion was not universally accepted by peer ... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... I frequently attend concerts at Boston Symphony Hall given by our outstanding second tier orchestra, the Boston Philharmonic. My series tickets are in the second row behind the mid-hall aisle just off the center. Superb seats for a mix of hall amb... | |
| What record cleaner is the most bang for the buck?? I use an Allsop Orbitrac for dirty records, and an Audioquest conductive carbon fiber for light dust. Last stylus cleaner and Stylast applied with an old Discwasher SC-1 for the tip. The whole kit for well under a century note. No electricity an... |