larryi
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| Vinyl, CD's and Digital Files Accumulated Over A Lifetime 8 TB for 500 albums? I have not filled 8 TB for 5,000 cds ripped to WAV files. I know someone who went through his record collection in order to pare it down to the "essential" 15,000. | |
| Music for the Pacific Audiofest show I have helped an exhibitor at the Capital Audiofest. The best classical track (it sounds great on any system) that I've found is Vivaldi-Concerti for Hautebois, Cordes e Basse-Bernardini (conductor) on Astree-track 4. For Jazz, I like Anour Bra... | |
| Ever Damage A Stylus Using Cleaning Brush? I don't use the ZeroDust, but I know of some issues involving its use. I know two people who accidentally pulled the cantilever out of their cartridge using the ZeroDust or similar product. If you lift it out of gel too fast, that force, which i... | |
| Basis Syncro-Wave Power Supply The speed should not drift and the setting should not be changed each time you turn on the unit. When I bother to check the speed, it is usually unchanged. You should contact Basis, they are usually quite helpful. | |
| Ever Damage A Stylus Using Cleaning Brush? I will agree with others that it is unlikely that you did damage. The difference you are hearing is probably more a product of anxiety over your actions. I would make the following recommendation: At all times, when not actually playing a recor... | |
| Which would you choose for good sounding tube preamp for an audiophile new to tubes. The use of a tube line stage into a solid state amp is sometimes an unpredictable hit or miss gamble. Even if the output impedance of the tube line stage is low enough, or the input impedance of the amp is high enough for a theoretical match (e.g... | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? Thanks Duke, that might explain why I really like tube amps feeding high efficiency speakers. Most of the tube types I like don’t put out much power. I like 45 and 2a3 in SET amps and 6L6 and KT 66 for push pull amps. In my own amp that is curr... | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? Good dynamics is not just about the range of capability. It is more about whether, when the signal goes up, there is a corresponding increase in the output of the speaker (i.e., no compression). This is less the case with low efficiency speakers... | |
| Why do tonearm specifications list null points? Dover, very good, and concise, explanation. While the overhang for a different alignment scheme would result in a different angle of the cartridge that would not have the cantilever of the cartridge perpendicular to the axis of the vertical bea... | |
| Best resistors for use in phono stage? Some like no added loading at all. Jonathan Carr, the designer of Lyra cartridges advocates no added loading, provided that the downstream electronics can withstand the ultrasonic peak that will be passed through without overloading. In that sen... | |
| Best resistors for use in phono stage? I think you should also order a variety of other values, just to try different degrees of loading. You could buy cheap resistors for the basic experiment before buying pricier models. With some cartridges, there will be not much difference betwe... | |
| BAT REX 3 with Harbeth 40 series I heard it sound very good with certain tube amps, so I don't think it is necessarily a solid state amp only speaker. I really don't know of ANY speaker that I would call a solid state amp only speaker. As to damping factor, this measure (8 divid... | |
| BAT REX 3 with Harbeth 40 series I take it you don't have the opportunity to try the combination. I've heard the 40.2 at a local dealership that sells only tube amplification. This is an extremely touchy speaker that can sound soggy and lacking in dynamics and loose in the bass... | |
| Turn down the Volume! I suspect that the reason high-efficiency speakers tend to sound more dynamic than low-efficiency speakers has to do with thermal compression. For any given output level, low-efficiency speakers have to run more power through the drivers, with a ... | |
| Best resistors for use in phono stage? For your purpose—cartridge loading, the lowest wattage resistor will be WAY more than you need because very little power is passing through it. You can use the lowest rated resistor you can find. |