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| What song have you played the most? Let No Man Steal Your Thyme, Pentangle, 1st cut on their 1st album. I love British Folk/Rock although this is more Folk/Jazz. The group is great. Jacqui McShee is a marvelous lead singer and the recording is excellent(as long as you don't have the... | |
| Why do my bass drivers shake violently listening to vinyl One of the problems with a ported speaker is that below the port resonance the woofer is literally floating in the breeze with nothing to stop it(unlike a closed box where the compression of the air brakes the driver). If there is a low frequency ... | |
| Science that explains why we hear differences in cables? So there are only sonically bad cables. By that logic there are only sonically bad speakers, amps, tone arms, etc. and that's true since all of them degrade the signal to some extent. How does that help any discussion? The sales argument has some ... | |
| Top 5 Reaons to NOT BUY A TURNTABLE. I can't believe how seriously most of you took this. I just smiled at it. At worst it was a discussion. | |
| High quality, passive, balanced, low pass crossover? Pet peeve which doesn't really affect the discussion but sealed box and acoustic suspension are not exactly the same thing. Acoustic suspension is a sealed box but with particular woofer and box size relationships. An acoustic suspension speaker i... | |
| In praise of isolation. Microphonics affect everything. I heard a comparison of 2 powers amps where the only difference was the material of the bottom and the end of the amp with the connections. It was as big a difference as if the amps came from two completely differen... | |
| Tonearm adjustments on the fly This last reply beat me to it. Most VPI tone arms allow VTA adjustment on the fly. And decades ago Technics produced some gorgeous tone arms with infinitely adjustable VTA that felt like adjusting a lens on a fine camera.Most of us adjust VTA for ... | |
| Analogue from Digital Unless I missed it no one mentioned that no matter how well mastered the vinyl is there are further stages that can affect the sound of vinyl versus digital and that is the record playing gear, the turntable, the arm and especially the cartridge e... | |
| unkonw WILSON speaker Look at the pictures blown up. The construction quality is way below Wilson quality for the metal parts using sheet metal and standard screws. Wilson would never do that. Plus although it copies Wilson time alignment it uses box shapes Wilson neve... | |
| Who Were Your Mentors I was introduced to audio by my dorm mates at Lehigh University which led to a Dynaco/ Acoustic Research graduation present from my parents. I moved to Philadelphia for graduate school where I met Bud Fried(IMF & Fried speakers) at his offices... | |
| Tube or R-2R DAC for Tube System I've had very good results with a very rare DAC, a GeorgeMark Audio from the early 2100s. It's a tube gain stage with volume control and an MSB DAC board built in with tube output stage. I drive it with Cambridge CDX drive running into two Monarch... | |
| The Most Philosophical Song You Ever Heard Two songs off the top of my head:1. The First Time - a love song hit in the 70s which was really a love song written in the 50s by a British man and great song writer, Ewan McCall for his life long partner Peggy Seegar, Pete's half sister.2. And T... | |
| Sibilance I noted the comment blaming it on speaker response in the 3 kHz area. That's often near the crossover to tweeters. And crossovers can be crazy. A speaker can be flat in the crossover region but if the transfer function(shape of the roll offs at cr... | |
| Why so many tubes? For non output tubes sometimes a gain tube is followed by a cathode follower which is sort of an electronic transformer to lower the output impedance of a gain tube so it drives the next gain tube better. Goof examples are 1970s and 1980s Audio re... | |
| Monitor suggestions? The Wells amp specs damping factor at 200. Assuming that's in the bass(sometimes it's spec'd at higher frequencies) that's way more than enough to control the bass of any speaker. I assume you don't have long lengths of thin speaker cable then the... |