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| Offer / counter-offer? Audiogon rules I would simply write and ask if they want the piece, and if they still want it for their offered price. You could say you realized you were being needlessly rigid. | |
| “Insides” of tubes did you write and ask your seller, send photo to explain the question? | |
| Who puts their speakers right up against the back wall and why? it’s about speakers designed for/actual ’room response accuracy’ rather than ’echo-less chamber accuracy’, you can publish results from this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anechoic_chamber you cannot publish in-room responses, it’s a gamble how the... | |
| Tubes? here's a hybrid, MC901mono: 300 wpc tubes for mids and highs, 300 wpc ss for woofers https://www.mcintoshlabs.com/products/amplifiers/MC901 | |
| Which SUT? .... for .3mv/10 ohms MC cartridge into 3mv MM input sensitivity didn’t see these versatile models while searching earlierOrtofon T-30 SUT, Pass and 5 optional loads, only 1 input https://www.ebay.com/itm/ORTOFON-T-30-Step-Up-Transformer-Moving-Coil/293664836747?hash=item445fc9cc8b:g:ZrMAAOSwADVePE90 Entre ET-1... | |
| Amp recommendations for Joseph Audio Perspectives2 these speakers around 80 lbs each. IMO they are heavy enough for stability on wheels.lift one of these 80 lb bags of concrete mix at home depot, https://www.homedepot.com/p/Quikrete-80-lb-Concrete-Mix-110180/100318511................................. | |
| Running Two TT into one phono input, best options? I also went thru this recently, started a thread, found a few options, members added a lot to the discussion and suggested choices https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/phono-eq-small-inexpensive-two-phono-inputs For MM, any simple RCA a/b switch... | |
| Which SACDs? My experience, SADC, the real difference is that the noise floor is lower, music emanates from a black pool of silence. Oscar Peterson, Music for my Friends :Piano/Silence, a good example of that I found.After a while, I decided, it's a bit un-... | |
| Options for ridding records of static electricity Did you feel static? I think I FELT it. | |
| 'Life Above 20kh' Research Paper, Harmonics (Overtones) I found the 'hangover' effect interesting (3rd paragraph). X. Significance of the resultsGiven the existence of musical-instrument energy above 20 kilohertz, it is natural to ask whether the energy matters to human perception or music recording. ... | |
| 'Life Above 20kh' Research Paper, Harmonics (Overtones) movement of instrument/mouth, air, microphone, cutting stylus, moving magnetic material on tape, captured/played back by movement the ’timing’ is ’not quite right’ when you add the step of direct conversion of movement or conversion of captured mo... | |
| 'Life Above 20kh' Research Paper, Harmonics (Overtones) raulok, we will remain happily wrong.I agree, the volume level may not be flat, but I am thinking about the TIMING of the fundamentals and overtones of each and every instrument’s sound waves, to their individual fundamental, and all the surroundi... | |
| Soundstage gone I'd hate to pay for it, but the specs for separation over 35db are Superior! And tight .5 db balanceYou ought to be getting a rock steady center, and wide, occasionally too wide image. It will improve after 30-60 hrs, however it should start out v... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Found time to listen to Norah Jones, Day Breaks, double LP https://www.discogs.com/Norah-Jones-Day-Breaks/release/11061238 1st disc, Studio; 2nd LP live small Loretto theater NYC, 4 years ago. (I’ve never been there, but looks like a terrific size... | |
| Vintage and modern hookups do you mean will you burn out new small surround speakers with too much power?use them for main speakers or for dual front/rear quad type surround? what brand, model receiver do you have? we can look up the specs/features easily enough.a lot of t... |