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| What are your favorite recordings that sound best to you? | |
| How to isloate turntable motor from making a hum Moving the turntable away from the preamp solved the hum issue. There is no hum regardless of the rpm - it is dead quiet now. While shuffling the gear components around, I've placed a monoblock power amp onto the preamp. That made a preamp genera... | |
| How to isloate turntable motor from making a hum The turntable is Oracle AC and the pre-amp is Manley Steelhead. | |
| Apple vs Amazon Yesterday I downloaded and installed the latest macOS Big Sur 11.4 on my Mac mini (Late 2014). After the install was completed the Music app (used to be iTunes) shows it is versions 1.1.5.74 now. In the the Music app’s Preferences (in Playback tab... | |
| Should the sound level in Triode mode be lower than in Tetrode That's interesting. By some reason I have always believed that the power amplifier's wattage directly translates to volume gain. Please correct me if I am wrong, but according to what you say, I can connect left channel output of the preamp to a 1... | |
| Should the sound level in Triode mode be lower than in Tetrode If I would connect a right channel output of a preamp to a 100 Watts monoblock and its right-channel to a 250 Watts one then the right speaker will be 2.5 times louder than the left one. But switching a 100 Watts vacuum tube power amp to a lower p... | |
| Chained speakers signal connected in series I did some testing this morning by connecting and disconnecting the speakers from the amps. The speakers connected in series (two speakers per channel chained) sound different from what they sound when they are connected separately (single speaker... | |
| How to isolate turntable from footstep shake or vibration Thank you for all your suggestions! I’ve double checked the suspension. And it appeared that the right tonearm side needed a stiffer spring as the aluminum housing was so low that it touched the base. It was simply sitting on the turnable instead ... | |
| What do $2500 speaker cables sound like? A couple quite entertaining and educational videos from Audio Science Review:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf3Yez8WTz4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLghg0QXPzs | |
| How many vinyl albums do you own you listen to? For those who wonder, according to a World Wide Web "...Hoarding is the persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of their actual value. The behavior usually has deleterious effects—emotional, physical, social, finan... | |
| NPS-1260 Connection fluid Does this product work with RadioShack cables as well? | |
| Should I replace Denon DL-103R with Dynavector DRT-XV1 mounted Yesterday I replaced my Denon DL-103R with Dynavector DRT XV1 cartridge I've acquired on a used market. Before my initial impressions are mixed or forgotten or both I would like to go ahead and share them with those who pursue the same direction. ... | |
| Hum after replacing tonearm cable Thank you for your considerations! Exposing the ground cable wire and connecting it to the phono stage grounding pole fixed the hum issue. It now performs as expected. | |
| Hum after replacing tonearm cable The cable that hums is used. It was purchased on Ebay. The issue turns to be behind the broken ground wire. There is a crack right where it meets the spate connector. I wonder if it would be OK to just detach the spade connector from the ground wi... | |
| Hum after replacing tonearm cable 1. Disconnecting tonearm ground wire from the phono stage did not make even a bit of the difference. With or without the tonearm ground wire bolted to the Ground Post of the phono stage makes no perceivalbe difference in anything. I wonder if this... |