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| power conditioning question gentlemen Can you measure the voltage and THD of incoming current that you are getting? And the turntable speed.Power conditioning can be a complicated thing, you might have to experiment a lot. My case was simple - I had fluctuating voltage and dirty curre... | |
| Balanced interconnects vs. Analog Also, do you want cables that are pure or mostly silver or mostly copper? This does matter and very much depends on particular system and taste. In my solid state system with analog source I use both silver and mostly copper alloy cables in the ch... | |
| Any modern band that comes close to Mahavishnu Orchestra ? Orpheus10, this is fine with me, especially Trilok Gurtu on the percussion, I always thought that he was great. When he played with McLaughlin their connectedness was palpable. 'Pasha's Love' is a super tune from that time, in addition to 'Reincar... | |
| Just how much do speakers suppose to vibrate? Try to put 10-15 pounds iron weight in the lower chamber instead of sand. Also, putting speakers on spiked wooden platform should be beneficial. Not all vibration is bad, you want to 'tune' not deaden. This I am not sure of, but it's possible that... | |
| How many will listen to tape and vinyl in the next century? There is still a lot of good original pressings around from 50s, 60s and 70s. Many of them held up remarkably well, but I don't know about 100 years more, enough of them will probably deteriorate. In a hundred years playing records let alone tape... | |
| What is going on? No-one buys good stuff priced right. Yeah, well, if fewer people upgrade and fewer start building their systems..we'll have the situation we do. | |
| Any modern band that comes close to Mahavishnu Orchestra ? I like some of the 'Shakti', both original and 'Remember Shakti', but this is something quite different. Of the original 'Shakti' I'd say that the composition entitled 'India' is the most profound, and of the 'Remember Shakti' John's old compositi... | |
| Phono/preamp/amp chain. One of them tube the others SS. Which one? I agree with the statement about human ear. There is enough of the tape hiss when I am listening to my Nak cassette deck and yet you can hear a lot into the noise.Atmasphere, this is an important point, thank you. | |
| Do we really need anything more than 8" woofer and 1" tweeter for medium size room? Yeah, that's it, PHY. Bass is not the strongest virtue of those drivers.Classic Audio people sound very serious to me. Never heard their speakers and not going to for now - I might like them a lot and I am quite certain that I can't afford them. T... | |
| Purist Audio. Anyone replaced Colossus with newest Poseidon ? Nope, only interested in Purist for now. Jim recommended less expensive cable than I had thought would be a good upgrade. Stingreen, you just offended the man -Jim- without knowing anything. His reputation is very high, and rightly so.One day I wo... | |
| Phono/preamp/amp chain. One of them tube the others SS. Which one? Stingreen, we are not talking about simplicity or orthodox purist approach where it is either all tube with possible hybrid amp or all solid state preferably from the same manufacturer. With cables, at the high level and above, I would agree, unle... | |
| Any modern band that comes close to Mahavishnu Orchestra ? I could never warm up to the Weather Report.Thank you for the suggestions, I'll check them all out.Yeah, when people like Miles Davis and John McLaughlin are gone, who will come next?Orpheus10, by the way, once you suggested to listen to Nils Pete... | |
| Phono/preamp/amp chain. One of them tube the others SS. Which one? Whart, agree about the symbiosis. Yes, interested in general views and considerations.Atmasphere's opinion has a lot of weight but so far he is the only one to express this particular view, though before initiating this thread intuitively I though... | |
| Any modern band that comes close to Mahavishnu Orchestra ? I'd say that Inner Mounting Flame is very earthly and Visions has a cosmic feel to it, especially some tracks.I wish they'd recorded Mahavishnu better. I listen to the original Japanese records, best sound you can get. | |
| Do we really need anything more than 8" woofer and 1" tweeter for medium size room? Yeah, not too many have that card but still quite a number.Don't remember his name, there is a French designer who makes great drivers used in some esoteric speakers. That driver goes down to about 40hz and up as far as you can see or hear. I thin... |