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| Proper connection for Snell B Minor speakers If you are going the jumper route, look into either buying or making a jumper out of high quality wire--the speaker will sound much better with a good jumper than with the typical brass bar inserted between the terminals. | |
| Basis Vector cartridge recommendations Pops,I like your choie in cartridges. I don't think there were many restrictions on your choices with the Vector arm; it would work with almost any low compliance cartridge and probably most medium compliance cartridges as well. Although Transfigu... | |
| Basis Vector cartridge recommendations The Synchro wave power supply does a good job of smoothing the motor out, in part, because it splits the phase to the four pole motor and delivers two separate power feeds to the motor (the motor has to be sent back to Basis), instead of using a c... | |
| Ring Clamps. What do you think? I recently heard a dealer demonstration using a Clearaudio turntable that utilizes both a center weight and peripheral clamp and an acrylic platter. What is very dramatically evident is how well this table performs at suppressing ticks and pops. I... | |
| TV between speakers: Curved Screen TV, help? Hurt? In the all out assault on room acoustics done by the firm Rives, there is a very large curved hardwood reflector in the center of the wall directly behind the speakers. But, the curve is convex not concave like a curved screen flatscreen. These th... | |
| Can't get Acoustic Zen Adagios to sound smooth I have no idea what transpired between the OP and Richard Vandersteen, but, I would hazard a guess that the I-Don't-Suffer-Fools-Gladly attitude exhibited here might explain how that interaction went down.I think I have the answer to the problem, ... | |
| Dynavector XX-2 MK2 vs Shelter 901 MK2 AT the level of price and performance of cartridges like the XX-2, it is a matter of personal taste and system matching and is not a matter of inherent superiority of one cartridge vs. another. I have a friend who traded in a Transfiguration Orphe... | |
| Is my preamp useless? I do wonder if there is some missing context to what has been quoted from Nelson Pass. He is big into supporting the DIY crowd (puts schematics for First Watt designs on line). If he is talking to that crowd, he would be addressing those who tend ... | |
| Electrostatic speakers and low volume resolution I agree with Douglas, whether you are concerned with bothering others or you have some hearing problems, phones could be much better than speakers. Although people tend to listen at higher volumes with phones, they are actually quite good for gett... | |
| Is my preamp useless? As with anything audio, a LOT depends on personal taste and system compatibility, and therefore, comments about which types or models are good or not are just rough generalizations. I "tend" to prefer active tube units over the passives I have hea... | |
| Is my preamp useless? The first step would be to just take the BAT out of the system and use the PS Audio volume control to see what that does to the sound. If it improves the sound, you at least know that some improvement is possible by going without the linestage. If... | |
| What's the greatest bargain in SET these days? Charles1dad,I certainly hope the tubes will last much longer. I would expect that running tubes conservatively will lower distortion and should sound better. However, I know of a number of people who deliberately run certain tubes quite "hot" and ... | |
| Electrostatic speakers and low volume resolution Some large panel speakers do seem to play best at moderate volume levels and not quite so well at both extremes of volume. But, that certainly is not the case with all such speakers. The old Quad electrostatics (57s) sound very good at low volume ... | |
| What's the greatest bargain in SET these days? I also like tube amps that don't go all out to maximize dissipation. Just backing off a little will increase tube life by a LOT. With my curren pushpull amps, it really is a very big deal that the amp runs the tubes conservatively. It utilizes fou... | |
| Parasound halo JC2 what a joke 90 degrees centigrade or farenheit? For equipment that is meant to be on all of the time, 90 degrees farenheit is actually pretty cool running. I am sure that the power supply on my Naim NDS server runs hotter than that, and it is intended to be o... |