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| spring loaded platform non-suspended turntable Consider for a moment that there are various vibration isolation designs. Of the mass on spring type, there can be vertical isolation, a combination of vertical and horizontal isolation and a combination of vertical, horizontal and rotational. The... | |
| Not asking the best.... The middle section of Whole Lotta Love by Zeppelin. The part with the violin bow guitar. Also, Time Waits for No One guitar solo by Mick Taylor. | |
| spring loaded platform non-suspended turntable One thing to consider about turntables, that's the resonant frequency of the tonearm and the cartridge and what it takes to excite the resonant frequency. As it turns out most tonearms and cartridges resonate at about 8-12 Hz. Thus, there will be ... | |
| Fast forward 25 years, what will audio be like? I suspect systems will continue to evolve into even more synthetic sounding ones, less emotionally involving, less satisfying, kind of like a soundtrack for a long forgotten science fiction movie. The opposite of that gripping analog sound one get... | |
| spring loaded platform non-suspended turntable Let's see, if you have an unsuspended turntable on a solid unsuspended base, the structureborne vibration can get right up into the turntable platter, the tonearm and the cartridge. That being the case, I would probably opt for some kind of vibrat... | |
| Your favorite musical non fatiguing speakers? Guess everyone else has got used to it. I can totally understand. | |
| Your favorite musical non fatiguing speakers? For what it's worth I'm not really referring to listener fatigue. I'm referring to the gross distortion one hears *immediately* in any system, regardless of price, when the volume is pushed up past an average normal level. I.e., the kind of distor... | |
| Do Jumpers make an audible difference? I should think cryoing the jumpers and installing them in the correct direction would be as good idea. Ditto the fuses. | |
| Audio-Magic Blackout Paint Bfr wrote, "Audio Magic paint is $240 for a 8oz bottle and the paint is not reusable. Herbie's can be applied, reapplied, move to other tubes, or resold if not satisfied."Geez, whaddya paintin', your house? Pretty sure the Audio Magic paint is sol... | |
| Headphone amp for Sennheiser HD 600/650? Ptmconsulting wrote,"No doubt the Woo's are wonderful, but at a price, of course. I've found great synergy with my HD600's in a Peter Millet Mini-Max, which (if you are into DIY) can be built as a kit for about $260."Well, yeah, but...I see that a... | |
| Audio-Magic Blackout Paint Ebm wrote,"Herbies Audio Lab tube rings they give more definition, better dynamics better bass and they are cheap!!"Not sure I go along with you there as the cost of Herbies Tube Damper instruments are on the order of the cost of the tubes themsel... | |
| Your favorite musical non fatiguing speakers? Judyazblues wrote,"Because that elevated distortion, let's say .01% for argument's sake, might not outweigh the higher SPL experience for any particular listener."If it were only .01% I wouldn't have brought it up. I'd estimate the "perceived dist... | |
| Headphone amp for Sennheiser HD 600/650? Woo Audio WA6 w/ HD600s. Perfecto Mundo. | |
| Your favorite musical non fatiguing speakers? Kiddman, if your theory is correct, that gross distortion in an audio system is produced at louder than normal volume by rising distortion in the speakers and distortion in the components, let me ask an innocent question: Why would anyone in his r... | |
| Audio-Magic Blackout Paint Thanks for the comments on the Audio Magic tube paint, am considering it for my '52 Sylvania 6SN7s and '42 Tung Sol 5U4G rectifier. Am a big fan of Herbies tube dampers, am using two per tube actually... |