eldartford
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| Hybrid SACD Question There is no reason why SACD or DVD-A players, as a class, should have CD performance inferior to a plain CD player. Any variation is just the result of being a different model player. However, I have serious reservations about Hybrid discs. In my ... | |
| Where are your maggies?? They say that if a town has one lawyer, he is unemployed, but if there are two they are busy! So too with audiophiles.Here is another point of view.First...get more watts. They don't need to be esoteric expensive high end watts, just lots of them.... | |
| 24/96 vs 24/192 DAC One thing I do know...it's a damn confusing mess! I have a "universal" player (Denon 2900) and it, like the previous one, (Pioneer DV45A) knows how to figure out what to do, so I don't really need to know.For DVD-A 96KHz is all you get for 5.1 mul... | |
| Where are your maggies?? I have MG1.6. I assume that the "attenuators" which you refer to are 1 ohm resistors. (That's what came with the MG1.6). If you still find your MG3.6 to be too bright, try a 2 ohm resistor and see how you like it. All crossovers have resistors in ... | |
| Why Does A Concrete Floor/Spiked Metal Rack... impep_whatever...Yes, the pressure will stiffen up the tubes by prestressing the steel. I think that high performance racing bicycles have pressurized frames. It permits the use of lighter tubing, and for those bikes every ounce counts.By the way,... | |
| Why Does A Concrete Floor/Spiked Metal Rack... Just an odd thought, but has anyone thought of hermetically sealing hollow tube stand components, and pressurizing them? This is a not-uncommon way of making such a tube more stucturally rigid. | |
| Help with cartridge loading. . . And, when you have driven yourself half-crazy diddling with the load resistance, you can go the rest of the way to fully crazy by playing with capacitance.My old Tandberg 3008 preamp has three resistance settings (100K, 47K, and 33K) and three cap... | |
| Am I the only one who thinks B&W is mid-fi? The only B&W speakers I have used are a little set of 550 (6.5 inch woofer in sealed box and titanium dome tweeter). These were when my living accomodations were greatly downsized. I now have an array if three MG 1.6, plus other stuff, and I l... | |
| When to replace tubes on a CD player? Some tubes, in some circuit applications last much longer than others. I am guessing, but don't these tubed CD players just use a tube stage for the output. In such a "cathode follower" circuit, tube characteristics are not critical, so, in preamp... | |
| DVD Player Evolution OK...the SACD playback is better. At more than double the price, it ought to be. The improvement is most evident in one disc, "The Sound of Glory" (Telarc SACD60579) which is the Morman Tabernacle Choir. (I have suggested this disc as a good worko... | |
| Which speakers excel at low volume? Your problem would be greatly reduced if you got yourself an old-design preamp with "Loudness" compensation. If you can't do that, don't be afraid to use tone controls or an equalizer. "Loudness" compensation is really best because the equalizatio... | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? Bmw328iproject...Take a look at my post "Multichannel and why". Your reaction to multichannel is typical of people who have not experienced the full potential of the media, but have been exposed only to stupidly mastered discs.Multichannel will su... | |
| Which speakers excel at low volume? Earphones. | |
| How do you clean your speaker grills? I wonder why they use silk? I think that silk has a tendency to pick up and hold a static electric charge, and that would attract dist. Good old loose-weave burlap is cheap and withstands any cleaning method. | |
| Combined speakers yeild even better performance "Stacked" speakers, usually of the same model, is an idea with a long and favorable history. Apart from lowering the power level at which the speakers opearate, you have taken one step towards a "line array". Screen speakers derive much of their g... |