jimjoyce25
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| R.I.P. Davy Graham I had the great good fortune to see Davy Graham play live in the back room at Andy's Guitar Shop in London in 1993 in front of perhaps 50 people (the space is similar to McCabe's guitar shop in Santa Monica). It was the only time I've ever been to... | |
| The "charactor" of pure Class A? For some, Class A is an article of faith, for others just a myth. Given the inconvenience of high heat and the added expense of building Class A, it's an awfully high maintenance myth, if it is one. | |
| How to reproduce sound of piano The point is a simple one. It is *not* that there are differences between the sound of the piano in my living room and the sound of the piano on your recording as it was heard in the room in which it was played. Pianos do sound different from one ... | |
| How to reproduce sound of piano I actually have a 1962 Steinway concert grand in the living room of the house I live in. (It's a small house, but with a large (30 x 25) living room with high ceilings (15 feet), and the piano fits quite nicely with lots of empty space around it,)... | |
| Power cord into power amp The analog portion of my cd player is battery-powered as well. A lot of work went into isolating the rf-producing digital side of the cd player from the analog side.I can recommend the Marigo Ultra 5 power cables (connected to the amplifiers) as e... | |
| Power cord into power amp Now that one of your strongly held beliefs about your system has, upon experimentation, proved to be false, does this make you less confident about anything else you believe must be true about hi-fi systems? | |
| Johnny Cash Discography Herve1: Do you know whether the Bear Family cds are digital versions of the original analog recordings, or are they digitally re-mastered? (I generally prefer cds that have not been re-mastered.) | |
| Who needs power cables anyway? Agreed Zenblaster. The point of a power cable is to take out the bad things the electricity picks up on its way to your house. Omitting this step would likely cause the equipment to underperform markedly. | |
| Shorting plugs.... Bicycle Man: My EE friend says that anything that acts like an antenna (even a power cable that is plugged into a component but unplugged from the wall) can pick up rf. | |
| Shorting plugs.... I would also note that the point of removing all other inputs from the preamp is to reduce/eliminate rf in the system as a source of distortion. Ie, there is some theory underlying the practice.Other elements in my system include (i) power cables ... | |
| Shorting plugs.... Bar81: No avoidance of the question. I misunderstood what you are getting at, thinking that you had misunderstood what I was getting at. "Turning off the equipment" means having the power button on the component in the off position, not pulling it... | |
| Shorting plugs.... Interesting responses. Given the lengths to which audiophiles routinely go to try to improve their systems, it's odd to hear the epithet "impractical," which suggests an unwillingness even to try it and see how it works. Of course there is no guar... | |
| Shorting plugs.... More than a thought. More even than a feeling. I do this in my system, because the improvement is material. | |
| Shorting plugs.... You'll actually improve the sound of your system if you unplug all components from your preamp other than the one you are using at any one time (even if the other components are not turned on). This eliminates rf from the unused components. | |
| Do you think you need a subwoofer? Agreed that taking the low bass out of the satellites by utilizing subwoofers greatly improves the performance of the satellites, apparently by materially reducing the amount of work the satellites need to do. This was immediately evident when I a... |