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| Stylus Cleaners: A magnet for Dust? I used to apply Stylast "liquid" to the stylus(to prolong the life of the diamond) before I play a record. But no more now. Better safe than sorry. I heard the "liquid" might affect the adhesive compound(making it soft) that hold the diamond to th... | |
| My girlfriend is pissed Be nice to her. Have some serious rolling with her before you do any tube rolling............ | |
| DVD A Sacd or Stay put for a while If you are rich with plenty of money to spend, go for it.If not, please stay put and see..... The last thing you want in your system is a Sony! They simply don't make serious and quality audiophile grade product.Go and get a quality, audiophile gr... | |
| Depth of sound stage--I need help It has to be proportion to the preceive width of the soundstage. If the width is about 15ft. Then the depth should be about approv. 1/3 of the width and it all depend on the recording. | |
| Verdier and Amazon Go for the JC Verdier! It is simply the best turntable that money can buy today. | |
| Any other tubes out there? Stick to the NOS tubes from the 50 or 60's. Anything newer than them are total waste of money and time. If you are serious about audio, I would like to suggest that you should stock-up a few of those Telefunken, Amperex, Mullard, Philips, Seimens ... | |
| What is your opinion regarding electrostatics? If you think altec horn is colored, may be you haven't hear a pair of good one yet. Be openminded. Different types of speakers have their share of strength and weakness. The best way to choose your speaker type is to match it with your own music t... | |
| Bass in my room isn't good? Help 1. The dip in 160Hz is probably the speakers fault.2. The peak in 40Hz is probably the standing wave in your room. Is one of your room demension is 14ft(+-1ft)?3. I don't think your mini speakers can go down to 57Hz. It will go down to 57Hz but at... | |
| more major players jumping on the sacd bandwagon Ordinary folks which make up of 99.99% of music buying population will continue to buy their favorite CD. They don't care about the SACD or DVD-audio. They are very happy with the CD performance. The remaining 0.01% which make up the audiophile po... | |
| What is your opinion regarding electrostatics? The electrostatics will be too soft for your musical taste.They are usually lack of dynamic, transient and punch. For myself, I love classical jazz and now I'm using a pair of Altec horn speakers. It sounds so real, intimate and musical. I always ... | |
| Is a 12' X 16' room big enough for stereo? You are lucky a man! My listening room is only 12ft x 14ft. But I'm also lucky, the room have a cathedral ceiling(highest point is 12ft and lowest point is 8ft) and after a few years of experiment with different room treatments. The cathedral ceil... | |
| help me select a single tube to "calm down" a preamp? Go and buy yourself an Amperex Bugle Boy 6DJ8 and all your problem will be solve. | |
| Arm board recommendations for SOTA Why don't you build yourself a armboard out of high grade marine grade plywood? The Simon Yorke turntable uses this material for their armboards. | |
| Need help with tube selections The best sounding tubes for your MC-75 will be the GEC Goldlion KT-88 tubes. They are expensive both they worth it.A set of four will last your life time!!!! | |
| sony offers 3 new SACD players Once they declared that SACD or DVD-audio will replace the good old regular Redbook CD. I imediately knew that digital playback is not a lasting format. I spend most of my audiophile's life to search for music that I really love and which are not ... |