folkfreak
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| Stylus cleaner My best investment was in a 60x magnifier, got one for less than $10 on eBay and this lets me see the dirt on the stylus. With a quick dip in the Oznow after every session (or hour or so of play) and a go with the Audio Technica ultrasonic moisten... | |
| Sonus Faber Guarneri - will any aiddtional isolation be beneficial? Larryi -- not sure I'm confident that the Townshend stuff would match with the Symposium at all well. If I understand it correctly the intent of the Townshend podiums is to isolate the speaker from the floor and not to dissipate vibration in any w... | |
| Sonus Faber Guarneri - will any aiddtional isolation be beneficial? Which speakers do you have? As long as they fit between the raised pods on each corner it should work, overhang should not be an issue (as long as it’s not excessive). As far as tilt is concerned I would avoid using the podium to do that so as to ... | |
| Sonus Faber Guarneri - will any aiddtional isolation be beneficial? One option you may wish to explore is using the Townshend Seismic Isolation Platforms. I recently installed a pair of these underneath my Magico Q3 floor standers and they really transform the performance of the speakers by fully decoupling them f... | |
| Tidal streaming needle-drops? Excellent video, good story and quite believable 😀The similar effect I've recently found myself becoming very conscious of is the noise of a piano action (the soft clacking of the felts playing along with the music) for some reason I notice it a l... | |
| Why some preamps does not play music? Cold? Atmasphere - thanks Ralph for one of the most succinct and cogent pieces of writing on acoustic engineering design I've read, someone should cut it out and save it for all future similar queries 😺 | |
| Long XLR Interconnect Cables My experience running long (8M) balanced pre-power interconnects is that there absolutely is a difference and frankly the longer lengths only exacerbate it. I clearly heard improvements going from Nordost Tyr to AQ Sky to AQ WEL. The only problem ... | |
| Tidal streaming needle-drops? I'm not going to get drawn into an analog vs digital discussion (if you check my rig you can see I have quite a decent setup for both) but in discussion of surface noise any decent resolving LP system will push any noise out of the plane of the re... | |
| ... Best Live Recordings ( other than Classical or Opera) on CD... I should stress re the comment on "Luka" the real overload is when she is talking between songs, the sung vocal is actually much better located in the mixAnyway here are some suggestions more in a more acoustic vein, from the very well known to th... | |
| ... Best Live Recordings ( other than Classical or Opera) on CD... Here are a few more goodies from my stackJohn Renbourn & Robin Williamson "Wheel of Fortune". Great recordings of the guitar and harp, should be very dynamic and (in the case of the guitar esp in track 1 surprisingly bassy) -- of course the vo... | |
| Tidal streaming needle-drops? Sorry, you are not hearing an LP. The effect is on all versions of this song (I'm listening to the CD now). This track is actually recorded and performed using a looper (a short digital recording box) and Vienna has chosen to encode and make these... | |
| ... how important is Damping factor in determining what amp to buy Almarg -- and it also affects the input sensitivity -- there's a nice discussion (extracted) in this review of these ampshttp://www.theaudiobeat.com/equipment/vtl_mb450_iii_mb185_iii.htm What’s the significance of adjustable damping factor? Far gr... | |
| ... how important is Damping factor in determining what amp to buy As the owner of a pair of VTL MB 450 III with adjustable damping factor (4 settings) I can attest to the fact that damping factor matters. Obviously it's an interaction with the rest of your system but as I got my room resonances under control I c... | |
| ... Best Live Recordings ( other than Classical or Opera) on CD... One of my go-to discs is "The Moment Always Vanishing" by Vienna Teng. Excellent dynamics and recreation of an intimate concertAlso "Party Doll" by Mary Chapin Carpenter, especially "Stones in the Road" | |
| Synergistic Research Atmosphere Power Cords. Seems that the L3 Atmosphere is beginning to settle in after 96 hours, definitely a major improvement over the sound "cold". I'll listen again over the next 48 hours and render a final budget but at least it's moving in the right direction |