larryi
Responses from larryi
| Paper Cones in HiFi? You can find many examples of current drivers that are very expensive that utilize paper cones--AER, Feastrix, Fostex, and G.I.P. come to mind. | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality About fifteen years ago, a professor did a blind study of the preferences of college students using uncompressed CDs vs. MP3 versions of the same music. The students overwhelming preferred the MP3 versions. They had grown accustomed to that part... | |
| Manley Amp is humming - troubleshoot :( Most common problems can be found by careful visual observation. Look at all of the electrolytic caps to see if there is any bulging (most evident at the caps on the end of the capacitor) or leaking. You can tell if they are bulging by comparing... | |
| Help with Shortlist of Speakers! (SF vs Devore vs Others?) I like the DeVore speakers you mention. For that kind of warm sound, I think you should also be looking at Audio Note AN-E and AN-J speakers, particularly if you prefer to locate your speakers close to the corners of the room. Most other speaker... | |
| A true legend has passed away! ' Set it and forget it ' Do you remember the "Hair in a Can" cure for bald spots? It was actually thick black enamel paint that is intended to be sprayed on to metal outdoor furniture; Ron Popeil just put a new label on the aerosol can to repurpose the product.There is a... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality It is not the technology, it is the mastering of the music. Even with CDs, you can find early CDs that sound MUCH better than later CDs because of the change in mastering. A lot of more recent material is, as others mentioned above, very highly ... | |
| Speakers for 300B --- Klipsch Heresy 4 or other ideas??? I have heard the Elekit 300b and I think it is a very nice sounding amp, particularly for the money. I have not heard any of the speakers you are considering with that amp, or for that matter, any other single-ended 300b amp. Heresy and the Zu a... | |
| Turntable isolation platform Recommendations? Short of an active anti-vibration platform, the most effective at isolating things from external vibration and killing self generated vibration is something like the MinusK platforms. These are used in industry and laboratories. They are also us... | |
| The stereo sounds fine, music is great, but Jeff Bezos came back to earth. Well, at least Jeff had a return to earth plan. That was not the case for Laika, the dog the Russians shot into orbit in 1957. The group the Gorillaz took the title of an old Lassie movie--"Lassie Come Home" to create the title for one of their ... | |
| What are your favorite Classical LPs? I actually like classical on CD, and because almost all of the albums I have on LP has been reissued digitally, I don't have that much in the way of favorite classical LPs. The reverse is certainly not true--I have plenty of CDs that were never is... | |
| CDP or DAC? Even if your digital medium will primarily be your CD collection, you might consider ripping your CD’s to be accessed through a streaming device; this will give you future access to streaming services.But, if you insist on a CD playing device, a s... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. Inner grooves are the hardest part of the record for a cartridge to track because the groove modulations (wiggles) are compressed into a smaller diameter and become more extreme in shape. Wrong antiskating can contribute to problems with tracking... | |
| Felt Kuti for newbies For almost any artist that you want a discography with some sort of rating or review of the albums, go to the site allmusic. For Fela Kuti, just type “Fela Kuti allmusic” and the select discography. You can even listen to samples there. | |
| Grounding boxes which ones have YOU tried? And results? At a dealership, I heard the Nordost system and I was quite impressed. As far as noise is concerned, the system was dead quiet before the boxes were added, so it does far more than reduce audible noise. What I heard was a more natural sound--ima... | |
| Buying used vs new? I bought a "part" (actually a pair of parts) that was built in 1939, so I don't know about a maximum age. The pair of compression drivers are among the best things I've added to my system. I don't think there is any warranty remaining on it; I s... |