larryi
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| Is it good to upgrade the crossovers in your speakers? I agree with sns, you can always go backward if a change is not in the right direction. There are a lot of popular choices of current production parts that are not necessarily the way to go; vintage parts should not be overlooked even if the comm... | |
| Fozgometer V2 I use a Wallytractor to do the basic alignment and I use a 10x magnifier to see the markings. The Wally Tractor is not the easiest tool to use, but it gives you more ways to confirm your alignment is good than other protractors and it is the best... | |
| Fozgometer V2 For the sake of preserving the record and reducing stylus wear, I prioritize having the stylus as close to perpendicular to the record surface as possible (optical setting using magnification), and using the Fozgometer to make any minor adjustment... | |
| Can a Amp be "timeless" and compete with todays amps? @fsonicsmith Thank you for bringing to my attention the Ampsandsound gear, a brand I do not know, until now. I looked at their website and their design and build look really interesting. I love amps built using turret boards. The layout of the... | |
| Can a Amp be "timeless" and compete with todays amps? The significant sort of modern advance is Class D amplification. The better designs are pretty much indistinguishable, to me anyway, from other high end solid state designs. But, where one does not need a whole lot of power, my preference is for... | |
| Is a Garrard 401 or 301 "accurate"?? The shop I mentioned above that puts idler tables into ultra high end systems likes the Thorens 124 the most for sound quality. Their tech who refurbishes and sets up tables likes the Garrard for its simpler design that makes maintenance and adjus... | |
| Toroidal transformer on tube amp There can never be dc at the output of any amp with output transformers. Current is induced in the secondary (output side of the transformer) by the changing magnetic field induced by the primary; if the current on the primary is not changing (dc... | |
| Is a Garrard 401 or 301 "accurate"?? If there were an agreed upon standard by which to compare something to, the concept of “accurate” might have some meaning, but there isn’t. On top of that, there are so many ways by which something could deviate from that ideal, there would be no... | |
| most beautiful (looking) speakers I had the privilege of helping to set up four pairs of Stradivari. Most of them were set up using the Sumiko Method per the distributor’s recommendation. They sounded and looked nice. | |
| Life of KT 150 Tubes I hope all goes well on your road trip to the dealer. The good thing about tube gear is that pretty much everything is repairable, and because the circuit is relatively simple, the cost should not be very high. The exception would be something t... | |
| Reed 5T Opinions bobbydd, Thank you for this information. The 5-T is basically a conventional arm located on a rotating base that allows for near perfect tangency and eliminates the offset angle which means no skating force. It is good to know that the basic de... | |
| A bit too "non-audiophile", but what are your favorite high-end tuners based on Looks? The Day Sequerra is one of the prettiest, to me. | |
| Warm, rich, smooth, 3d tube integrated amp, budget $6000 If the Elekit works well, I would expect a 40-60 watter is a viable candidate. I understand you don’t want a built in DAC, but it would be a mistake to not consider the Synthesis A40; I would take it over any other candidate even if it had no DAC... | |
| Speakers: Anything really new under the sun? You can apply extraordinary measures to eliminate cabinet resonance and the result is a speaker like those made by Magico. Is this good? It depends on whether you like their speakers. There is no defined engineering path to a great sounding spe... | |
| Favorite religious song How about Greg Brown’s “Jesus and Elvis”; Jesus had some water, said “wine would be better yet” Elvis picked up his guitar and made all the women wet. |