folkfreak
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| Zoethecus Cone - Long Shot While it's unlikely that you can find someone with just the right cone any other footer manufacturer should be able to male you up a set of cones with the right threads on the associated bolts. For example BDR offer threaded cones (not necessarily... | |
| In listening to your system(s)...what is most crucial to your enjoyment? Increasingly I value the flow or continuity in music, that sense that you are hearing the continuing uninterrupted sequence of a musicians choices without spotlighting, added emphasis or color. It’s actually a tricky thing for systems to realize ... | |
| What is your experience with the law of diminishing returns ? Actually it is the opposite -- the more optimized your system the more apparent marginal changes are -- there's a law of increasing returns to tweaking | |
| Please help me clean up this stupid speaker cable mistake @audiorusty is correct. For years I used a pair of Nordost cables wired shotgun into Magico V3 and Q3. Open up the binding post and slot one banana into the bare wire hole, then tighten enough and slot the other banana into the banana hole at the ... | |
| Audioquest Eagle Eye Digital Cable - What Next As you seem to like the sound of the AQ eagle eye you could go up in the line. I’ve owned the same cable and found that the Wild was the sweet spot in terms of value for performance but that would run you about $700-900 used. I’d also look into Ch... | |
| Tube Question for Audiophriends This amp uses 813s for the output stage, so perhaps the OP is asking a question about that? | |
| Audio Additives Stylus Force Gauge inconstantcy My experience with these repackaged generic gauges like the one you are using is that they are all unreliable - perhaps its some form of magnetic interference (i.e. this is why it measures fine on calibration weights but goes haywire with a cart)T... | |
| Ultrasonic cleaning before and after This mirrors my experience on moving from traditional wet vac to us cleaning. The difference was not in the traditional realm of dirt and pop click removal but more that after a thorough us celan (KL LP200) the disc sounds more seamless and integr... | |
| Audioquest Eagle Eye Digital Cable - how to use Like all AQ DBS cables the Eagle Eye has a battery pack with a set of (often obscure and hard to source) batteries that should be left connected at all times. As @mental notes the button is for periodic battery life testing. Frankly if you leave t... | |
| Primal Scream- Give Out But Don't Give Up- The original Memphis Sessions @mikld -- respectfully as Primal Scream formed 4 years before the Afghan Whigs (1982 vs 1986) I think you have your causality inverted :-)But more seriously they're both good examples of those halcyon late 80s days we all grew up in! | |
| USED RECORD GRADING- What's the Problems? While the current grading regime is far from perfect I can’t see how any alternative is better. Especially as each of us is different in terms of what we expect. For example I’m really quite tolerant of tics and even light scratches but even a hin... | |
| Music similar to Mike Oldfield I’d say Hergest Ridge or Platinum, but suspect you may prefer the latter (more song oriented) | |
| Speaker Cables and Carpet All of the above is correct but will not exactly give the "cleaner look" you are after. One solution is to run the cables under the floor (assuming we are not talking a concrete slab). You can actually then get a nice drape and few if any points o... | |
| Digital Microscope advice SRA It can be done -- but is a PiTA and also can be next to impossible depending on your stylus profileMy detailed methodology is presented herehttps://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/vt.mpl?f=vinyl&m=1084171&VT=TSince then however I've moved on to tw... | |
| Life of KT150 tubes on ARC Amps Definitely replace well before failure. There are many horror stories of the effects of tube failure in ARC amps. One of the best things about the VTLs I own is how well they handle tube flame outs, taking down a fuse only with lots of on board di... |