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| Noisy vinyl from Classic Records When a record is pressed, a small biscuit of vinyl is placed on the stamper and under pressure it oozes out to the edge. If this flow is not perfect, a condition, often referred to as non-fill, can result in noisy records. Typically the noise is a... | |
| Noisy vinyl from Classic Records Most of the Classic records I've bought have a mild to substantial dish warp, and many suffer from excessive surface noise. The dish warp and swishing or crackling noise in one channel is usually caused by an insufficiently long pressing cycle. Th... | |
| Can someone give me some insight. It seems to me that the Monster Cable has a more prominent upper midrange than the other cables. That does not mean that it "boosts" that range; it means that the Monster Cable is rolling off the rest of the frequency range AS COMPARED to the othe... | |
| Thinking of buying a solid state amp I personally don't think that ANY solid state amp sounds like a tube amp, though, many do, nonetheless, sound good to me. The true Class A solid state amps will also run hot, so they may be out of the running. Some of the brands of solid state amp... | |
| Thinking of buying a solid state amp Smaller listening room probably also means less power required to reach high volume levels. If you like the BAT sound, why not at least try the smaller BAT or some other smaller tube amp?A lot of people over estimate the amount of power needed to ... | |
| Advice on interconnect choice There is no realistic way to predict how ANY cable will match either your particular musical preferences or your particular choice of components. You MUST do this by trial, particularly when expensive cables are concerned. The means finding a deal... | |
| question about speaker placement. dead end room? While it is generally true that if speakers are placed too close to the front wall, imaging becomes flatter and the sense of sound enveloping the listener and filling up a large space is compromised, that hardly means that it is pointless to try t... | |
| Inverting phase with Joule Electra LA150MKii Frontier1,As the others have suggested you can switch your speaker leads. Most people cannot readily hear a difference, and that may be in part a difference in sensitivity to absolute phase of individual listeners and differences in sytem composit... | |
| Arm geometry and mounting distance Unless you are dealing with those arms that don't have a slotted headshell, you usually have enough adjustment range so that you can attain tangency at the two null points, hence, you can get the correct geometry. So, even if the arm board is not ... | |
| New vinyl's noisy little secret Dan ed,A number of companies do put out decent quality records -- Music Matters, Speaker's Corner, etc., but, I still wonder if these records are as good as those from 30-50 years ago. Some of my recent purchases seem a bit delicate, compared to s... | |
| New vinyl's noisy little secret Yes, good quality vinyl, for the purpose of making records, is no longer available. I read an interesting article about a new pressing facility in New York City. The proprietors admit that even the best vinyl they can buy falls short of the qualit... | |
| Retubing power amp You will, after some use, need new tubes for the amp. So, buy a new set now, regardless of whether or not the current set is worn out. Once in a while (say every six months or so), replace the current set with the new set and compare the sound. Wh... | |
| tonearms with VTA-towers for true "VTAF" Axel,Consider the pivot of the arm to be at the center of a circle and the stylus at a point on the circle. Now imagine a change in position of the stylus representing the change in thickness of a record. The movement could be represented by the a... | |
| tonearms with VTA-towers for true "VTAF" I suppose that the easiest implementation to do repeatable VTA change would be the digital readout approach of the Kuzma. The other useful approach would involve changing VTA by remote control (Air Tangent). The VTA tower on the Triplanar and othe... | |
| DAC with the best midrange ever..... I have no idea how anyone would define best midrange, much less, best midrange in the mind of someone else. All I can say is that I have heard, and liked the Aero Capitole, I use to own the SCD-1, and I currently own a Naim CD555. I like what the ... |