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| Planar Speakers and Diffusors @ozzy - It’s interesting that you get the best sound with the speakers 60" from the front wall. That’s exactly what the Cardas calculator for dipoles recommends for your room dimensions (well, 59.28" to be exact). | |
| Planar Speakers and Diffusors @ozzy you should also look into ATS Acoustic's QRD diffusers. They're similar to GIK's, but they're a better value (lower cost per square foot of wall coverage). They will also custom make them in any height you want for a minimal upcharge. Ano... | |
| Wool Blankets as Room treatment Start with bass traps to get the low end under control first. This should be the first step in treating a room. Measure the room as is and then as you add treatments so you aren’t just guessing. You really can never have too much bass trapping. Go... | |
| How would you spend my next $5K? Address room acoustics. You should be able to treat the whole thing with that budget or less and the improvement will be orders of magnitude greater than spending 5k on gear. | |
| Found a Milty Zerostat alternative I bought one to use on LPs, but have not tried yet. I works amazingly for loosening up staticky coffee grounds in my burr grinder's catch chamber, though! I use it on that almost every morning. | |
| Just FYI: Tidal is consolidating their HiFi and HiFi Plus tiers I find it ironic that they refer to themselves as best in class after they fell for MQA. I had the exact same thought. Why anyone would choose Tidal today is beyond me. | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners The key to using a shop compressor is to have a large enough tank for at least one listening session. I can listen to LPs for days with one fill of my 60 gallon tank. It's the most quiet air source you can possibly have and there's no need for a... | |
| A quick question on what streamers to consider....... Aurender is great, but if all you're going to use it for is background music, Aurender is overkill in my opinion and you don't have to spend anywhere near 2-5K. Do you also have a 2-channel listening room where you actually sit and listen? | |
| Advice regarding separate DAC purchase you suddenly have access to millions of albums at nearly zero cost, many of higher resolution, you end up asking… “what was I thinking? Why didn’t I do this years ago. Absolutely. A streamer is an essential component. | |
| Humminguru record cleaner I’m not worried because I don’t have hard water. I can pretty much guarantee that your tap water still has dissolved minerals and who knows whatever else in it no matter how soft you may think it is. Just grab some distilled or DI at the groce... | |
| USB Digitil microscope advice @normb Yep. Removing the clear protector on the front will enable you to turn the black pointy part, which I assume has a lens in it. This will change the magnification. Try it in various positions. Aside from that, everything has to be perfectly... | |
| Vinyl Records - Shipping, max/min temperatures Thermostatic Controlled Reptile Heat Mats are quite cheap in the US, these are commonly 12V and will comfortably keep a space heated to a Temp Range of 10 Celcius to 25 Celcius. It would not be too difficult to arrange for these to be used in a ... | |
| Vinyl Records - Shipping, max/min temperatures I don't think you have anything to worry about. If you're paranoid about condensation forming when you open the boxes at the destination, just line the shipping boxes with plastic bags, fill with LPs, and then tie the bag to seal the records. Wh... | |
| MICHI 8 Amp(s) @ozzy did one of the Goertz cables short? How did that happen? | |
| Burning CDs of downloaded music @sealegs I am not familiar with Macs, but I have burned thousands of CDRs on PCs. You need to burn them as audio CDs. It sounds like you burned the .wav files as data. Data CDRs won't play in a regular CD player. Look for audio burning software. ... |