jeff_jones
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| Compromises (recording quality) I handle by using a second armwand and cartridge on my TT and a second cd player for the bright stuff. | |
| A butt-load spent in cables - how much improvemt? Regalmal - "No insult intended" . None was taken. Your note just got me to thinking. I guess maybe 'neutral' sort of means containing characteristics of distortion typical to the listerners reference setting for live music. | |
| A butt-load spent in cables - how much improvemt? Regalmal - "buy tube equipment precisely because it distorts the sound the way they like it to be distorted." Agreed. But sometimes I think it is that we like to imitate the acoustic reflections, frequency attenuation , etc, that we are used to he... | |
| Best Bang for Buck - Time to Upgrade I second the powered subs, or maybe even consider a set of used 5's, assuming you are happy with the Vandersteen sound, might be more load than your mono blocks want though. Somebody that listens to a lot of rock and blues (me for instance) will g... | |
| A butt-load spent in cables - how much improvemt? Jimmdavis - Yup. | |
| advantage of inductive chokes on an amplifier Herman - Thanks. You may be right, no way to know without seeing performance data. Have sort of made it a hobby of watching marketing hype over the years and I can be overly suspicious. When folks take the elephant approach and throw in big heavy ... | |
| advantage of inductive chokes on an amplifier Herman, what do you disagree with? | |
| advantage of inductive chokes on an amplifier A choke (inductor, coil, different terms seen often) looks like high resistance to high frequency noise. In other words they can be used to block electrical hash to some extent. They are not particularly expensive and there is a lot more to design... | |
| Are the online zines killing print mags in audio? I think you need to give the audio mags a good bit if the credit for their own doom. If audiophiles felt they were a reliable source of honest information the mags might still be doing well. | |
| Balanced Phono question - forgive my ignorance Either way will work. I get better results (less noise) by using the two wire input to my phono pre, but it is something that you can play with and see if one connection or the other makes any difference. | |
| Mods for Rogue 99 Talk nice to Mark (either one) and they can set you up with some power supply upgrades, nos tubes, a few premium parts tweaks and balanced in and out (if you do not have the internal phono pre-amp, there is not room if you do). How this compares t... | |
| How do you tell how dirty your power is? A different way to consider the question is 'how can you tell how robust your equipment is?'. The better your components internal power supplies are designed, the less neccessary or detectable any type of ac power fiddling will be. I really like E... | |
| Mapleshade brass tubedampers Which reminds me, one of my get round to its was to order some high temp o-rings (tube dampers without the audiophile mark up) from McMaster-Carr. Anybody gone to the trouble to figure out what size o-ring to buy for the common tube types? | |
| What are the difference between CLASS A and PURE It's like Madonna vs Mary Poppins. | |
| House AC Line Variance Sola voltage regulators are very well built and priced for industry instead of audiophile silly, I've installed a lot of them over a lot of years. A quick internet search or a call to your local electrical supply house should get you some info. Mo... |