folkfreak
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| Old friend looking for acoustic folk inspired music One disc I can highly recommend (and that I've been using as a reference for the past year or so) is "The Elizabethan Session" album produced in 2014. This is a recording of 13 songs from 8 different current UK folk artists all inspired by the tim... | |
| CARTRIDGE WOES? I guess what responders may be getting at is a mismatch between your arm in particular and the Kleos. Using available resonance calculators the resonance range for the Delos is 7.3-8.4 Hz (the range is a function of the need to make an adjustment ... | |
| How close to rear of speake for a rack? Not at out at all sure why you are trying to shorten your cables. General view is that an 8-9' length of speaker cable is optimal and also getting your rack out from between the speakers will help with imagingin my setup I use a 25' interconnect f... | |
| ground the outlet or not?? bnut311 -- yes there is if you install an Equi-Tech balanced power system. Read this paper for an explanation -- of course one downside of installing such a system domestically is explaining it to anyone you sell the house to! I know (been there, ... | |
| ground the outlet or not?? Did you check out the specific advice on this topic from Equi-Tech, it’s pretty direct 😀http://www.equitech.com/FAQ/howgr.html | |
| ground the outlet or not?? Agree, keep the grounds but if your EquiTech has GCFI breakers you should consider defeating them. When I had a 10WQ I was continually having to reset the breakers as other household appliances triggered them. For audio needs the GFCI is not reall... | |
| An alternative view on system balance - what to spend where Nonoise -- great point on the very precise alignment of your speakers. I had always aligned using distance from the rear wall as a reference, but when Ron from Marigo came round to install the footers he brought a laser and set up teh tow in perfe... | |
| An alternative view on system balance - what to spend where I guess my point is until you've optimized how do you even know what the component sounds like? Without any change to my amps or speakers my system sounds a world different to how it did six months ago.this is the same reason I find shows so unsat... | |
| Turntable isolation... Slaw - many of us post these details in our system listings so as not to have to repeat them every time, hope you had a chance to check these all out | |
| Best Female Vocalists Ballads Second the suggestion of Vienna Teng -- be on the lookout for her live CD, "The Moment Always Vanishing", a great recreation of a small concert setting and a disc that rewards whatever improvements you make to your system | |
| John Martyn Just about everything John recorded is worthwhile and most are available cheaply in original pressings. For me however the stand out is "Live at Leeds" -- probably one of the top 10 live recordings out there, and his stuff is very cleanly recorded... | |
| Seeking to soundproof front door to my apartment I can recommend the Acoustic Sciences door seal as one optionhttp://www.acousticsciences.com/products/door-seal-kit I had ASC design a sound proof listening room for me and this was part of the setup, albeit installed in dual solid doors (i.e. one... | |
| Help! Any Michell Gyro/Gyrodec/Orbe owners who live near Greensburg PA? You are in luck. The Gyordec and all of its variants is very easy to ship as it can be fully broken down. As a former owner of an Gyro and an Orbe I've moved them across country and from the UK to the US (albeit all in the original box I have to s... | |
| Preamp inverts signal. Fact is CDs do not have a mix of polarity, the vast majority are inverted. Lots of coverage of this online, the link below is to one of the most well known sites. Changing polarity on my Paganini is a pain so I set it inverted for the majority, I... | |
| Preamp inverts signal. Better still listen with and without and decide what sounds best. In my system with a DCS player and non inverting amps 99% of CDs sound better inverted so I leave my CD player set that way. The vast majority of LPs however sound best non inverted... |