eldartford
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| Behringer - All The Way Sputniks...Now say after me..."Digital is good, Digital is good..Digital is good".But, I'm not sure that you ought to dump the SW. Equalization may give you better LF from your main speakers, but the woofer cones are probably pumping away like mad... | |
| New cart, step-up or ??? With the volume control at "11:30-12:30 rotation" you have more gain available in your preamp. Why add more gain so that you can waste more in your preamp? | |
| Is there a best cartridge track force gauge? If the stylus were elevated 0.75 inch, and the arm was 10 inches from pivot to stylus, the arm would be off level by 4.3 degrees.Cosine of 4.3 degrees is 0.9972So a VTF that ought to be 2 grams will measure as 0.9972*2 which is 1.9944 grams.This i... | |
| Paper Cones in HiFi? Sean...Lighten up! Dogs eat homework every day! I, and I am sure many others, have been in the situation of losing work for one reason or another, and the worst part is realizing that other people will be skeptical of our explanation. One time I l... | |
| 15" vs 18" subwoofer - which to buy? Gregm..."VERY difficult", perhaps, but to simulate a point source to the left or the right with a center speaker is downright impossible. I agree that the Velodyne 18 incher is a good product and will no doubt work well. | |
| Paper Cones in HiFi? "The dog ate my homework"...updated. | |
| ELP laser turntable - any comments? A dynamic phono pickup, MM or MC, puts out a voltage that is proportional to the RATE of stylus movement. A piezioelectric phono pickup (and there were some that were not cheap junk) puts out a voltage that is proportional to the DISPLACEMENT (dis... | |
| Do materials alter frequencies and speed? 0.25dB down at 20 KHz!!! I am crushed. | |
| Is there a best cartridge track force gauge? Tbg...Is 4 grams what Ortofon recommends? Last time I was seriously interested in phono pickups 2.5 grams for some MC models was the highest. And they had to make apologies for this, saying that low stylus mass resulted in low wear despite the "hi... | |
| ELP laser turntable - any comments? Well, I read the review, and am surprised to find that the device claims to be completely analog. I wonder if this includes the focusing servos.I bet you could do a better technical job with a digital approach (certainly the noise problem could be... | |
| Turntable Upgrades Another case of "tweekitis audiophillia". I understand that some high end turntables use DC motors, and if these use brushes and mechanical commutators their life will be limited. (Of course there are brushless DC motors, but this more sophisticat... | |
| ELP laser turntable - any comments? I presume that the laser circuitry derives a digital signal from its optical inspection of the groove, which makes for the oportunity to do RIAA equalization and some pop and click elimination in the digital domain. But if the signal is digital, w... | |
| Is there a best cartridge track force gauge? There was a time when pickups tracked at 5 or 6 grams. Yes, really! In those days the VTF could be set by a sensitive finger, and a nickle coin, which weighs exactly 5 grams. Put the nickle on your finger, then substitute the pickup. True story. | |
| 15" vs 18" subwoofer - which to buy? Sean...What are we looking for? I thought it was a variation of sensitivity (dB/volt or dB/watt) as a function of SPL, particularly evidence of a reduction at low SPL. That's what I looked for. | |
| 15" vs 18" subwoofer - which to buy? Sean..."the manner in which the tests were conducted may not be revealing enough". The test SPL values went down into the inaudible range. What would you like?Again I say, go make some measurements. I can see that, like St Thomas, you won't believ... |