larryi
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| Short Lifetime for 6NS7 Tubes Are the tubes going bad everywhere in the amp or linestage or does it tend to be a tube in a particular position in the gear? If it is the same position, there could be something wrong with the piece of gear causing excessive stress. Also, what ... | |
| The awful truth about CDs, do they have the same shelve life as LP's ? I have ripped more than 4500 CDs to my NAS. The ripper provides data, such as errors encountered in the ripping process. Not one of the CDs had an error. Some of the CDs date from back at the beginning of CD production. I believe that the conc... | |
| from Harbeth 30.1 to SHL5+, an upgrade or lateral move? To me, the SHL5+ is somewhat of an outlier in the Harbeth line. It sounds quite different from their other speakers--it has a more modern, conventional sound (not as warm, tighter sounding and punchy bass). I like the SHL5+, even though I don't ... | |
| A speaker that looks like a driver or a driver that looks like a speaker? The speakers look unusual, but I kind of like that. The problem, with it being acceptable in most rooms is the lateral size. Four feet wide is about two feet wider than the largest size most people would want in a room. | |
| How old is too old for a Dac? If you are talking about just redbook CD playback, there are older DACs that are extremely good. I would take a 15 year old Audio Note DAC 5 over almost anything out there now. | |
| SME Tonarms, SOTA Vacuum Turntables, and 10" Records I have a vacuum clamp table (Basis Debut). It cannot seal a 10" record. This is not the end of the world. Just turn off the vacuum and use the center sealing puck as a weight. Yes, you won't get the tight coupling of the record to the platter,... | |
| I'll Take "Songs About People" for $200 Al,If you google something like the "real girl from Ipanema" you will find pictures of what she now looks like in her 70's--still stunning. Nothing wrong with being immortalized in song that way. But, what if you were the inspiration behind thos... | |
| I'll Take "Songs About People" for $200 The Beatles' "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" refers to McCarney's uncle and to the American Admiral William "Bull" Halsey.For a somewhat obscure reference, I like the Black Box Recorder song "Lord Lucan is Missing" (a member of the House of Lords th... | |
| I'll Take "Songs About People" for $200 If you are an outlaw or a killer, you are more likely to be immortalized in song. Google songs about Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Bonnie and Clyde and the like and you will see. If you do something really horrific, a nursery rhyme will be written... | |
| Potting a Denon dl-103r There are some folks who insist that more (or less) of a particular attribute is inherently desirable (e.g., increased rigidity, reduced resonance). I don't think that is always the case. I don't think more damping (less resonance) is necessaril... | |
| I'll Take "Songs About People" for $200 Plenty of biographical songs, like Dylan's "Hurricane" (Rubin "Hurricane" Carter) and Joan Baez' "Joe Hill" (labor organizer). | |
| Best standalone music server? Even if you buy a dedicated music server, it is usually NOT a simple one-box solution and you will still need to hook it up to the internet to get downloads of metadata on the albums and tracks you download onto the server. That means a switch an... | |
| How much gain is needed in a Phono Preamp for a 0.2 to 0.3mv low output moving coil? I also run an Orpheus L with a phonostage with 60 db of gain. I have enough gain from the phonostage. However, I don't know about the amount of gain provided by my linestage or the input sensitivity of my amp, so it is hard to translate my exper... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings There are a number of Class D amps that sound really good at their modest price points, such as the offerings by Bel Canto. But, so far, the really high end and expensive models have not impressed me. I have no idea why the Devialet amps get suc... | |
| SUTs and Resistive Loading Questions Regardless of the theoretical issues, there is no harm at all in just trying different loading. I experimented with primary side loading by making RCA loading plugs and an RCA T splitter. I used cheap resistors for the experiment, with the inten... |