eldartford
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| hospital grade or commercial grade receptacles ? Tbg...In keeping with your suggestion to make observations, I went outside and looked around. I observe that the earth is flat. | |
| which solder do you recommend? Philjolet...New shiny wire, where you have just stripped away the insulation, does not nead cleaning. If there is any suggestion of oxidation on the wire clean it.Flux cleans the metals being connected, and prevents the rapid oxidation that would ... | |
| hospital grade or commercial grade receptacles ? "Trust your ears"? Have you never experienced an optical illusion? What makes you think that the sense of hearing is not subject to being fooled. I do believe that people (well some of them) hear various sonic effects when wires are changed, or th... | |
| which solder do you recommend? I was taught that in soldered connections the wire should be firmly crimped to the terminal before solder is applied. Electrical contact is made without need for solder. The purpose of the solder is primarily mechanical, to prevent the connection ... | |
| Best commercial press for flattening warped LP's I place the LP between two sheets of newspaper, and then drive my car back and forth over it a few times. Then I drive down to the music store and buy a CD.Seriously, I never had any success. However I did end up with a turntable/arm Sony PS-X800,... | |
| Does it matter which end is connected? Interconnects sometimes have the shields tied to ground only at one end, and hum may be reduced if the wires are used in one direction vs the other direction. (And not always in accordance with the arrow). Speaker wires are another thing altogethe... | |
| using different amps for Bi-amping ,any good ?? l Forgive me if you have heard this comment from me before.Biamping, using a low level crossover, made a lot of sense back in the days when 15 watt power amps were common, 25 watts considered overkill, and IM distortion was one percent or more in th... | |
| using different amps for Bi-amping ,any good ?? l The woofer and the tweeter are very different devices. The driver differences will make any power amp sonic difference insignificant. Select amps for other reasons. | |
| Switching polarity of tweeter in two-way design I have seen frequency response plots of two way speaker systems with the tweeter hooked up each way. One shows a dramatic downward spike at crossover. Almost complete cancellation. In fact, this is the best way to determine the exact crossover fre... | |
| Shure V15VxMR to be discontinued Beryllium dust has been a known health risk since 1961 when I went to work on the Polaris Mk1 missile guidance system, which had various beryllium parts. At that time we had warnings about even touching the metal unless you had gloves on. As time ... | |
| hospital grade or commercial grade receptacles ? Saki70..There isn't any shielded conductor in common 12/3 wire used in houses. What makes you think that green tape will stop "interference" better than bare wire? (Have you tried red tape?) Why not use the bare ground wire? This conductor carries... | |
| hospital grade or commercial grade receptacles ? If power receptacles make a difference (and I doubt it) you would be better off using ones designed for high current high voltage applications, like you stove or clothes dryer. These have contacts with much greater contact area, and some have a tw... | |
| How do I keep my cats off my amplifier? Sean...We had a cat that would climb up and sit on top of Magneplanars. True, they were the old ones with an oak frame about 2 inches wide. Cats don't mind balancing on narrow objects. | |
| speakers in a bad room Sogood51...I understand your point about reverberation in a concrete room. My point is that for certain kinds of music, jazz in a cellar dive or organ in a stone cathedral, that "cascading mix" of reverberant sound is exactly what is needed for re... | |
| Left channel much louder than right? I would suspect the cartridge itelf, or the wires in the arm. Incorrect setup (angles and forces) will make it sound lousy, but, in my experience, have little effect on loudness. Try swaping channel connections at the cartridge. |