geoffkait
Responses from geoffkait
| LS50 and Big Fat Dots For turntables ease of motion (isolation) in the rotational direction around the vertical axis (twist) one obtains with roller bearings is not good for turntable performance since the platter rotates in that direction. For turntables it's actually... | |
| LS50 and Big Fat Dots But most vibrations aren't in the horizontal direction. Townshend and I both built Isolators that isolated in all six directions. There are three rotational directions. Technically the roller bearings don't isolate in the horizontal only the rotat... | |
| What music do you use to assess your system? Steam locomotives, thunderstorms, rain on pavement, applause. | |
| LS50 and Big Fat Dots The issue I have with roller bearings is their rather poor vertical isolation performance however I am a big fan of roller bearings on top of a good vertical isolator such as springs. | |
| Designer Hall of Fame Just a guess. Ollie Voil? | |
| Does alcohol impair appreciation of sound? Of course the real issue with the consumption of alcohol is the degradation to sound quality produced by all the empties lying around that act as Helmholtz resonators but tuned to the wrong frequency and placed in the wrong locations. It's enough ... | |
| RCA Shorting Plugs vs Caps non-shorting ? I never used shorting plugs so cannot say yea or nay. To reemphasize my point that using caps on unused inputs and unused outputs of the TV or unused gear in the room should improve the sound. This is because the caps don't have anything to do wit... | |
| Disappointing audition after great review An audiophile takes twenty years to get a system to sound right. What chance does a dealer have? | |
| RCA Shorting Plugs vs Caps non-shorting ? All unused RCA plugs should have caps, including video Inputs and outputs, even the TV unused inputs and outputs. Apologies for being mysterious. One note: the caps allegedly prevent EMI/RFI from entering through the open plugs but if you do the m... | |
| Your Best Tweak Lately Essence of Music and...Super Intelligent Chip and isolation for portable Sony CD player. | |
| Tube Watts vs. Solid State Watts - Any credence? The large magnetic field produced by large transformers cannot be good for any frequency, high, low, what have you. | |
| Your Best Tweak Lately The musical signal has 2 or 3 amps in the Maggie's? Interesting. | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz You don't say? | |
| Tube Watts vs. Solid State Watts - Any credence? And without knowing the, uh, drum roll please, efficiency of the speakers. | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? Had an Alfa Romeo GTV Veloce, special ed., Alfa Romeo GTV-6 with straight pipes, another GTV, another GTV-6, and an Alfa 164 S, the last of which I handed over to my mechanic about six months after he suggested I hire someone with a large truck to... |