eldartford
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| My vote for Tweak of the Week Of course the best results are obtained by removing the knobs altogether. When adjustments are needed, use a screwdriver.I can obtain pearl-handled screwdrivers for you for only $486.00. Add $50.00 for cryo treatment. | |
| Taming a Bright Phono Section 1. Cartridge loading, as others have mentioned.2. Use the tone controls, as others have mentioned. (They are specificly made for the purpose of fixing your problem).Be sure that the knobs are installed correctly. You might have the treble boosted ... | |
| can I turn my stereo amp to mono- is there a way Kr4...Could be. Of course if you want to play 78 rpm records you need a different diameter stylus as well. | |
| Very Curious, Indeed The color that your eye sees is unimportant. The disc must be reflective at the wavelength of the player laser. | |
| can I turn my stereo amp to mono- is there a way Kr4...The so-called "Mono cartridges" that they sell today are, I'm told, nothing but a stereo one with the Hi terminals strapped. (Which was my last suggestion). | |
| Do cartridges "dry" out? Phono cartridges use an elastomer (rubbery stuff) to mount the stylus in a compliant manner. All elastomers harden up with age. Sometimes (often) they can be softened up again by treatment with a fluid. This is how the car automatic transmission "... | |
| can I turn my stereo amp to mono- is there a way Kr4...He needs to go mono because of the LF noise of vertical groove modulation, which has no signal, except the noise.A jumper from TAPE OUT LEFT to TAPE OUT RIGHT might woek as you suggested, and would be the most easy. If not, use two Y-interco... | |
| Senior Audiophiles - Audiophile since the 60-70's? I first became interested in Hi Fi about 1953. It was a totally different hobby then. We built our own amps and speakers, and not from kits. Schematics were published in the mags, and in the RCA Tube Manual, and we would go to the electronics part... | |
| MG1.6 crossover upgrade merits. OK, I done it. One of the three MG1.6 is completed, so I can evaluate (by comparison) what I get for about $200 per speaker.First: the design. I decided to use a 10AWG air core inductor and Hovland capacitors. I chose to modify the crossover frequ... | |
| custom Crossover building service?? Draggcj...Connecting a tweeter up directly to a power amp is risky. Turnon and turnoff transients, and other disturbances with LF content can easily toast a tweeter.The mid/tweeter crossover (typically in the range 1500-2500 Hz) is best done using... | |
| custom Crossover building service?? Theaudiotweak...I think that in some cases changing the design of the crossover, (break frequencies, slopes) can yield better performance, but you need to know what you are doing, and be prepared to tweek in your new design. The original designer ... | |
| How to clean the tweeter or woofers? It probably has no effect on the sound. The weight of dust is trivial, and if it did accumulate to a significant extent, no cleaning method would be better than the vibration of use. Use will limit how much dust can accumulate. I think the situati... | |
| What do Oil Caps do and how do they effect sound? Both solid state and tube amps produce a voltage. Current is what results when voltage is applied to a load, such as a loudspeaker. An amplifier might be capable of high voltage output under no load condition, but if it has little current delivery... | |
| Won't preamps become obsolete? Bombaywalla...Thanks for the very interesting info. I can understand the advantage of a transformer for a passive preamp, where impedance matching can be a problem. Also, the ability to provide a little gain is nice.Except for the impedance issue ... | |
| AMP for Panasonic XR45 Video signals are simply selected from different sources and sent on to the monitor. I can't see why there should be any problem. |