geoffkait
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| Anyone tried military grade anti vibration feet ? Actusreus, you little rascals. Always looking for a free ride. :-) | |
| HRS M3X isolation base or Minus-K? I think you will find that isolating the component from low frequency structural vibration is considerably more important than damping or offloading internal vibrations of the component in terms of sonic results. And it's much more difficult to re... | |
| Top Audio Blu Ray Player Suggestions I recently received my analog and digital modded Oppo 103 back from EVS. Mods included the EVS Super Chip and Audio Magic Pulse Gen ZX RFI/EMI device. The sound of CD is killer on my headphone system: Bada PH12 Hybrid SET headphone amp, cryo'd Sen... | |
| Carlos Santana - designer of women’s shoes? There was that big hit from Woodstock, "Soul Sacrifice." | |
| Cryogenic experience wanted. Constructive please "A Josephson junction is made by sandwiching a thin layer of a nonsuperconducting material between two layers of superconducting material. The devices are named after Brian Josephson, who predicted in 1962 that pairs of superconducting electrons c... | |
| Cryogenic experience wanted. Constructive please The typical 24 hour cryo process seems to work well for audio items, which are placed into the cryo cooler along with non-audio items like gun barrels, golf clubs, engine parts, or whatever. I suspect the typical cryo treatment at a cryo lab compr... | |
| What kind of power cord comes with expensive gear Only when the amp manufacturer sends his amp in for review or demonstrates it at CES should he use an expensive power cord. :-) | |
| Anyone tried military grade anti vibration feet ? The Army's version of Vibrapods. Most likely too stiff for audio apps. | |
| What is your take on Mapleshade products Shoutout for Mapleshade's Ionoclast ion blaster for CDs and interconnects. And,Electric Blues Doctor Live by Drink Small (CD, Mar-1994, Mapleshade Records) | |
| Recent equipment you hated, thought overpriced Springbok10 wrote,"The Tice clocks. I actually bought them in 1991. Still have them as a reminder of my youthful stupidity and the superior salesmanship of The Cable Company. I look at them daily, leering and sneering at me in justifiable superior... | |
| Cryogenic experience wanted. Constructive please The cryo process strengthens materials, especially metals, and in the case of cables and internal wiring makes them better conductors. Cryo improves the performance of transistors, electron tubes, metal connectors, etc. The only caveat with cryo i... | |
| How do you dress your cables? I suspend my power cords from plastic hooks that are attached to the wall with damage free adhesive strips. A rubber band is used to suspend the power cord from the hook. This method isolates the power cord from vibration structural vibration and ... | |
| $10 vs $100 power plug Marakanetz wrote,"Hospital grade Hubbel plugs are sold at digikey, newark and mouser catalogues for $low-teens. Audiophile grade ones are just the same only with different price, color, design and name. Hospital grade plugs are for hospitals. Hosp... | |
| Advice on wire transfer and shipping to APO Who is this person Ciao and why is he stalking Elizabeth? Can he be banned? | |
| Speaker Spikes - do the shake test Wolf Man, one can't help wondering if the recording engineers you've worked with, the ones with "great ears and astonishingly sophisticated technical skills," are the same ones responsible for compressing the sound on many modern CDs. |