handymann
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| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms One thing I learned-a good tone arm has to have sufficient mass. You can put the best cart on an arm with insufficient mass and it will sound like an old ceramic cartridge. There are many good designs out there. I installed a Koetsu Urushi Black o... | |
| Measurements for a dedicated line When I built my house, I had two dedicated lines wired with 10/2 gauge with ground, both going to hospital grade receptacles. Each one is connected to the same buss side at the breaker box. I’ve never heard any noise except a fluorescent light sta... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system I have had a dbx Driverack 360 for about three years. It has a Wizard that will automatically sets your parametric eq at 14 different levels, sets your roll off points for them as well. Phase control for your mains and subs, a graphic eq, adjustab... | |
| Equalizer in a Hi Fi system I use a DBX Driverack 360 and love it. If you’ve never heard of it, pls take the time to research it. You won’t be disappointed. | |
| Have you found your "End-Game" speakers yet? I have. And it feels so good!!! I owned a pair of Martin Logan Monoliths, but wanted a more in your face sound. Purchased a pair of Wilson Maxx II’s and love them. My son recently purchased a pair of Martin Logan’s, now I’m missing mine. I have a pair of Klipschorns just taking ... | |
| Are your listening levels healthy? Doing damage? I’m 69 and have been using headphone noise suppression for over 30 years, when I mow, use power saws, vacuum or do anything that involves loud sounds. I have three different SPL apps I use. All three are within a couple of db of each other. I’ve ... | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights I too have a VPI Scoutmaster Signature with a Dynavector DRT XV1s. After about a year of use, I applied a small portion of black permagum to the cartridge shell and adjusted the counter balance accordingly. It gives the tone arm more mass and soun... | |
| Any High End Tube Preamps with *gasp tone controls? I use a DBX Driverack 360. It has graphic and parametric eq’s, delays for main and subs, harmonic synthesizer for deep bass and on and on. It’s been the only thing I’ve found to seamlessly incorporate my subs. I have 2 Krell FV 600 monoblocks fe... | |
| Stereophile review of Millercarbon system featuring Tektron speakers Sorry to break the subject. I haven’t received the “recap” for a couple weeks. Am I the only one? | |
| Stereophile review of Millercarbon system featuring Tektron speakers Sorry to break the subject. I haven’t received the “recap” for a couple weeks. Am I the only one? | |
| For those of you who had spent over hundred thousand dollars for your sound system. I have well over $100K in my main system and many more $$ in my surround systems. I’m not bragging. I’m 68 years old and have been into audio since I was 4 years old. To me, one of the most important components,if you want to call it that, is yo... | |
| What's the heaviest speaker you've ever owned? What's the tallest? My tallest were Martin Logan Monoliths. My heaviest are my Wilson Max II’s | |
| Your sub experience: Easy or hard? I have two JL Fathom v1 13’s and use a DBX Venue Driverack 360 to integrate them into my system. It has on the fly gain, phase control, delay, subharmonic extension, frequency slope adjustment and more. I was constantly experimenting with adjust... | |
| preamplifier after preamplifier? I wrestled with this for years. Bought a dbx drive rack 360 and love it. Very versatile. Check it out. Control all speaker volumes, delay, parametric/graphic eq-the list goes on and on. | |
| What process did you use to integrate multiple subwoofers for 2 channel listening? JI use the DBX Driverack VENU360. It has 6 analog outs (xlr), four which can be used for subs. Each sub can be “tuned” to your liking with delay, polarity, dB gain, off/on all from your laptop, phone or iPad. You can also control your two mains wi... |