geoffkait
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| Sennheiser 650 Headphone Cable Upgrade Another vote for the Stefan Audio Arts cable; I've been using the Equinox (now cryo'd) cable with the 600s for many a year. | |
| Fuse for Dartzeel CTH-8550 Try flipping the existing fuse around. That might help. | |
| grills or no grills on your speakers..matters? For headphones, grills off. Definitely. | |
| My most memorable ROCK moment Jimi Hendrix concert at Merriweather Post in MD, he played during a driving rainstorm. At one point his guitar picked up a local station playing Purple Haze and he held the guitar up to the mic so everyone could hear it. | |
| To Couple or Decouple? Couple onto the decoupler. | |
| vibrapods -- which component? Theoretically, and in practice, air bladders don't have the best geometry. For the best performance the air spring should have a small cross-section and large volume, I.e., tall column. | |
| Time for POT? previously owned tubes I have a hunch that unless one uses Herbies tube dampers differences among tubes are quite masked by the distortion. Of course there are a lot of other things that produce distortion and noise in audio systems that could mask differences among tubes. | |
| small red lights flash on my Nakamichi PA-7 Out of gas? | |
| Why aren't new vacuum tubes as good as old ones? What price glory? My NOS tubes (two 6SN7GT and a Tung Sol 5u4g rectifier) along with tube dampers set me back as much as the headphone amp. Is that wrong? | |
| Why aren't new vacuum tubes as good as old ones? A lotta folks think all tubes sound the same, or essentially the same. Wouldn't vendors selling new tubes be inclined to market their product as being superior to NOS tubes, just like the NOS tube vendors, you know, for the profit to be made? Gosh... | |
| 'Holographic Sound Stage?' "Holographic imaging is impressive when you hear it, but over the years I've come to appreciate that live music doesn't sound like that. I listen mostly to classical and have been to a number of concerts at Boston Symphony Hall. From roughly the m... | |
| Correct alignment for Fidelity Research 64fx/SPU? 50 cm is equal to 19.6 inches. 2.54 cm per inch. Whew! I'm glad I got that off my chest. | |
| So......what do you use under your speakers? Tbg, the phrase electronic cancellation most likely came out of the marketing dept. as electronic (active) isolation has been with us for quite some time. Even the old warhorse Vibraplane has an Active version. | |
| What is your favorite 1 hit wonder from the 70's? Sealed with a Kiss was undoubtedly an earlier decade. Rubber Ball was a better song by Bobby Vee. | |
| Audiogon "Recordings to Die for" a complete summary Undoubtedly, at least half of them are out of polarity. |