eldartford
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| What music would you like at your funeral? When the Saints go Marching in. | |
| How do you deal with vibration? He said..He said. How do we know the truth?. Well, why not make some measurements.I put my PS Audio PS II outboard phono preamp (a high gain circuit that would most likely be affected by vibration) into a plastic hamper with a small speaker system... | |
| How long does a stylus last? Ecclectique...Because your observations are based on inspection with a microscope, I tend to believe you. The wear that I recall seeing was with less than the 5 gram VTF that Elizabeth suggests.For reasons I suggest, (1) line contact stylus. (2) l... | |
| How do you deal with vibration? Tbg is correct that a wire moved in a magnetic field generates a voltage. But there is no reason to believe that the stray magnetic field is large enough or the vibration-induced movement great enough to have any measurable or audible effect.The p... | |
| Behringer as DAC? The DEQ2496 has no volume control, so you would need to put it ahead of a preamp. But the DEQ2496 also has no signal selection, so it would only work with one source. This might be OK if all the other sources are analog, but you would only have th... | |
| "Commercial" plasma screens the real deal for HT? I have the "Commercial" version of a 42" Panasonic plasma. It is identical to the "residential" model, except for some bells and whistles that an audiophile would not use. You save money not only because some stuff is omitted, but also because the... | |
| OP AMP Capabilities in Supporting 24 bit bandwidth I checked out this preamp, and find that it has only 6dB gain, with a switch option for unity gain. It is easy to get distortionless ("transparent") performance from a low or unity gain amp. The trick is to do it with about 30 dB or more gain. I g... | |
| Are expensive cables worth it? There really are two questions here.1..Do details of wire construction, other than adequate copper size, make a difference?2..If "Yes" to question 1, does "properly" constructed wire require absurdly high cost?I am undecided about question 1, but ... | |
| How long does a stylus last? Nowadays, does anyone ever use a microscope to examine a stylus? I recall pictures of diamond stylii with a couple of hundred hours on them showing obvious wear. Perhaps the line contact stylus wears less, but by the same token would degrade more ... | |
| Why "Cryo" anything? There are situations where science cannot explain why something works. But there are two other situations.1.. Science explains how something works.2...Science explains why something cannot work.Although we are surrounded by examples of situation 2... | |
| Not recognized in their lifetime? My recollection of Bach's biography agrees with Duanegoosen's, but I was not sure enough to cite it. The story of Bach is that while he, and his children were well regarded in their times, there was a gulf of several centuries during which he was ... | |
| Who needs spellcheck? Unclejeff...With respect to your last comment...Isn't it wonderful how an "error correction" process can recover a message perfectly dispite many transmission errors. | |
| Not recognized in their lifetime? Eva Cassidy was acclaimed in Europe. Only in her own country was her artistry unrecognized. | |
| Do higher end tuners pull in more stations A directional FM antenna on a rotator will produce better results with a midrange tuner than a top of the line tuner with a fixed antenna.Most tuners today, even cheap ones, have excellent sensitivity. Actually, unless you live in the country (fri... | |
| Why "Cryo" anything? The reason that liquid Nitrogen is so cheap is that it is an undesired byproduct of making liquid Oxygen, which is in demand. You get liquid Nitrogen by making liquid air (mostly Oxygen and Nitrogen), and then letting the Nitrogen boil off, some o... |