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geoffkait

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Whats playing on your system today?
Cassettes, you know, the medium with air AND dynamics. The Doors Morrison Hotel K7, The Stones Let it Bleed on DECCA, paper label. Stones Sticky Fingers the Bob Ludwig remaster. Holy ____!  Am using The Mystery Tweak for cassettes. 🤗 
Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower
It’s bad enough we have to contend with the forces of the seism, now we have to contend with the forces of evil.  🦹‍♀️  
Feeling Tweaky
skyscraper OPGeoff, I’d still like to hear from you what tweaks, if any, have worked best for you.Mike>>>>Huh? Mike, I rattled off a list of tweaks a few moments ago. I am a tweak manufacturer and lover of tweaks. I’m also a lover of t... 
Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower
Hey, lewm - Blow it out your bagpipes, dude! See if anyone listens to that.  
Recording during the 70's
The Golden Age of classical music was approximately late 50s to mid 60s. You can rack that up to very skilled engineers, especially DECCA, RCA, EMI, MERCURY, and tube electronics for recording and mastering. Solid state had some theoretical and ev... 
Are manufacturer AC cables good enough?
I forgot Andorra. How about Andorra? 🇦🇩  
Are manufacturer AC cables good enough?
(Hey, that’s the way it goes sometimes)South Korean officials, who recently began to loosen social distancing requirements, ordered more than 2,100 nightclubs, discos and bars in Seoul to close Saturday after the country recorded dozens of new cas... 
Are manufacturer AC cables good enough?
In the Washington DC area the curves actually don’t look all that good. Apparently the White House is under quarantine. https://wtop.com/local/2020/05/coronavirus-test-results-in-dc-maryland-and-virginia/ 
Are manufacturer AC cables good enough?
By the way, not to brag or anything, but we just hit 80,000 and it’s the second week of May, just as I predicted. It’s the “doubling every two weeks” theory, for those interested. Gee, I wonder what the total will be at the end of May? 🤔 - Dave th... 
Are manufacturer AC cables good enough?
glubsonI did not grow up in the USA.>>>>>Well, shut my mouth and call me corn pone! But you seem so immersed in US culture. I would never have guessed. 🙄 I’m guessing Sweden. Am I close? Lichtenstein? Feel free to parse my sentences.  
Feeling Tweaky
It’s nice to see all the newcomers and has beens too on the big wide wonderful world of carefree tweakery. When we get to the part about Silver Rainbow 🌈 Foils, Schumann frequency generators, Quantum Chips and Dots, Mpingo discs and tiny little bo... 
Is room treatment a science?
Actually anechoic means no echoes AND no reflections. All reflections are not echoes. In most rooms some reflections are beneficial whereas echoes are not. It’s probably not a good idea to turn your room into an anechoic chamber, but who knows? I ... 
Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower
It’s customary to describe six degrees of motion as follows,The y axis (vertical direction), z axis (first horizontal direction), x axis (second horizontal direction), plus three rotational directions, rock, roll and twist, around the x, z and y a... 
Do You Care About AESTHETICS? What Are Your Gear/Listening Room Preferences?...
I’m all for an organized system and an organized room. The best sound quality comes with the lowest entropy. Think of it like Feng Shui for audiophiles. Keep things as simple as possible, get rid of all extraneous newspapers (do they still make th... 
Feeling Tweaky
@millercarbon, what’s up with all the personal attacks? My guess is an inferiority complex. Please give my condolences to your liver.