eldartford
Responses from eldartford
| Your opinion on cable spending or, get an equalizer. | |
| Surround music ? Sogood51...Right on. I would only add that the "right amount" of signal depends on the music in question, and the intended perspective of the listener. People who actually play in a musical groop may very logically prefer to be in the midst of the... | |
| Universal Digital Player With Digital Inputs? Any such player would be illegal, but it might exist via modification. | |
| Should I try a MC cartridge and phono pre? Iseekheils...I never had any hum problem. Actually, because the MC circuit is much lower impedance than MM it is LESS sensitive to magnetic fields that cause hum. Same reason why transistorized preamps, with 50 ohm output impedance are less likely... | |
| Opinions On Ampzilla Trinaural Processor? This is nothing new. Center channel speakers have been around since the dawn of stereo, usually driven with an L+R signal. Of course this is the most simple "Matrix" multichannel. As with all matrix multichannel, gain riding logic can be applied t... | |
| What causes microphonics ? Clueless...Yes microphones are made using the variable capacitor principle, but how many remember that there was once a phono pickup that worked this way too? It was called Weathers (not sure of the spelling) and the stylus movement created a vari... | |
| Woofer on Top Speakers "Missionary style" | |
| Free Tweak...does it work for you?? A small Panasonic digital receiver that I messed around with (similar to the SA-XR25) has a small coil if several turns wound into the line cord, and secured with a plastic wrap. The manual warned the user not to unwind it.I think this is to meet ... | |
| Should I try a MC cartridge and phono pre? Use of a transformer is a good idea. I used one for a while, and thought that I would hear an improvement when I got a preamp with MC input. No so. Transformer was just as good. | |
| Do most manu. buy or build their x-overs? Warnerwh...Crossover design is important but you don't need to be a genius to do it. A couple of points.1. It makes a lot of difference what kind of crossover you have in mind: 2-way/3-way, cossover slopes... A 2-way 6dB crossiver is not complicat... | |
| Should I try a MC cartridge and phono pre? Dougdeacon...To be more precise, the limitations of my TT did not prevent me from hearing a rather significant improvement with the MC pickup. Perhaps the MC would have been even better with an exotic high end TT, but the MC in the existing TT was... | |
| Stereo SACD on a Multi SACD player? Thinkat... The stereo recording that is on every SACD is an AREA of the disc, not a layer. "Layer" refers to the CD recording that is on a different layer of the "hybrid" disc "sandwich" and which is read by a different color laser in the player. | |
| Best Male Singers of the 20th Century Don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but here goes.The Smithsonian Institution commissioned a study to address this very question. They first made up a set of criteria, and then began ranking all the singers they could find. Of course, the... | |
| Do most manu. buy or build their x-overs? I recently bought a pair of speakers from Madisound (Odin model) for the rear channels of my system (where use of Maggies is just impossible). These speakers (a Kit) are offered with two crossovers, Standard, and Premium, with approporiately diffe... | |
| Should I try a MC cartridge and phono pre? When I went through the MC stage of life my TT was an Empire 598, and later a Sony PS X800. Neither are reputed to be SOTA, but in both TT the MC sounded great. I have since gone back to MM (for practical reasons) but the TT was never an obstacle ... |