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| Accuphase E-5000 factory power cord good enough? If you don't drop a grand min on a PC you won't hear what your integrated can really do | |
| Tonearms without anti-skate, damage to records? I have read Peter Lederman's comments on AS and stylus inspections he has done and also understand that skating force is real. So I go with a little goes a long way. I typically use around 1/3 of the tracking force for AS force setting. It d... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm All tube system (SET best) and a Viv tonearm and sound like all the intoxicating distortions that "audiophiles" have adopted over the years will be enhanced to new super pleasing levels. Not surprising is it? | |
| Aftermarket power cable on Sutherland 20/20 MkII One man's better can be another man's worse in this hobby | |
| List of most high end analog active crossovers ever made. I'll be that SPL is excellent. I wish it were: 1. Less expensive. 2. Had a wider choice of freq range to cross with 50-120 fairly narrow, could use a x10 feature | |
| The magic of outdoor listening I have a portable battery powered diy system I take to the sandbar when boating in the summer. Next to the fire, in the open sand, sounds wonderful. No boundaries, no reflections is great place to listen. | |
| Vintage Tuner-Only wonderful because it's the SOUND I grew up with?..... Some cool programming out there an still some good sounds. Never stopped using the tuner for FM listening and I'm a geezer. Have an old Kenwood that sounds great and am sure I could make it sound better with a little maintenance/modding. If ... | |
| Tone Arm Balancing When you balanced your tonearm to floating level, did you hold weight and turn the dial until the zero on the scale lines up with the mark? Kind of a key item before your rotate entire assembly to line up to the 1.5 grams. I use a digital sca... | |
| 2nd system thoughts on vintage receivers I have had a number of them, best sounding was a Sansui G7700. Wish I'd not sold it now. Hindsight fairly accurate most of the time. Any "vintage" should be but doesn't have to be refurbed with new caps, cleaning and adjustments at min. I... | |
| What Is So Special About Harbeth? "To me they sound dynamically constipated" Thanks for that comment lemonhaze, worth the read for that alone! | |
| Bass Vs speaker efficiency I think many associate tight bass with speakers that don't go very low, and many times this is very efficient low xmax woofers. Much more to it than what I am pointing out here, but this thought process persists. | |
| Amp repair cost — is this right? That is a high price. You would have a hard time finding a price that big going elsewhere. Parts are less than $70 estimated. Time for work, let's go long and say 8 hrs. An experienced tech, esp with that exact piece of equipment, would d... | |
| Absolute Monster SAM Turntable Function over form, every time. | |
| I blew up my receiver. Now what? That is one heavily marked up fuse, but good to hear. You were lucky. The other devises you haven't fried yet are designed for 110 or 220, either works. Most things are not. Read the labels on your equipment, this tells you what you need... | |
| Woofer pumping possibly due to tube amp when playing vinyl Rumble filter is simple and easy, no big deal. Get one and move on. They're in most all phono pre's, for a reason. |