eldartford
Responses from eldartford
| Best Benny Goodman recordings I have multi-disc (LP) boxed sets of the Carnigie Hall concert, and the 1938 Broadcasts. I prefer the performances on the Broadcast recordings. The Broadcast recordings were recorded "off-the-air" as a quality control project by the radio station,... | |
| dead quiet Stringreen...OK. OK...but if your hum is loud as a tuba your system needs repair :-) | |
| dead quiet Stringreen...So, when the tuba plays 60 Hz, the violin is messed up. Not in my system. Maybe in yours. | |
| dead quiet Albertporter...It's hard to find any combination of letters which is not already an acronym for something. Do you have a better suggestion for when we go over the top? | |
| Tightening loudspeakers screws... Rotarius said..."His reasoning for using brass screws is pure bs".Of course the bs is pure. Second class bs would not be high end. | |
| Tightening loudspeakers screws... I believe the foam under the driver is to achieve an air seal. Silicone caulk works even better, and holds the driver in place without need for any screws at all. If it becomes necessary to remove the drive this is not too difficult to do using a ... | |
| dead quiet Stringreen...You are correct about the speaker efficiency not being a factor IF you make the test with the volume turned up to equal levels with the two kinds of speakers. I was wrong, (but was led astray by Atmasphere).But you are wrong to think ... | |
| dead quiet Stringreen....Inaudible signal affects the music signal?? Not likely. But if this is true it is an argument for LOW efficiency speakers, where the inaudible signal is more dB down from the music. If a very weak 60 Hz signal affects the rest of the... | |
| dead quiet As Atmasphere states, hum is almost always due to wiring/grounding faults. If the preamp hums without any cartridge input it is faulty...often power supply capacitors. Tube preamps that used ac filament excitation sometimes hummed, but that's why ... | |
| Measure My Turntable Speed Laser tachs are used to check the mechanical tachs of airplanes. Typically used at 2500rpm. I doubt they would be useful at 33rpm. | |
| Measure My Turntable Speed What kind of TT are we talking about? If it is direct drive (no belt to slip) with speed set by a crystal oscillator the TT is probably more accurate than any device you can buy to measure it. | |
| Good quality cd's I find that certain labels are consistently good, and I pretty much limit my purchases to those labels. FWIW, they are also consistently expensive :-( | |
| Tone controls- to use or not? As Reubent said..."Use the tone control. That's what it is there for".You might find an equalizer to be more effective because you wouldn't be stuck with the "hinge" frequency that the preamp designer chose. For example, if your hearing rolls off ... | |
| How to control long decay of B&W woofers ? A drum does not go silent suddenly. It has a decay time, perhaps increased by the recording venue. Maybe what you hear is true. | |
| Pure class A amplifiers = "slow" amplifiers? Johnk...Fostex 31.5 = cone area! Also, Fostex 31.5 = $2535.75 as of April 07. Probably more now. |