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| What can I do to improve my 2nd system? Remove any flexible footers from under any and all of your speakers. You want the speaker to be held firmly in a fixed physical position. Otherwise energy put into the speaker by the amplifier is partially being used up to move the speaker, rather... | |
| I am enjoying my analog system, but what can I do to improve? Chung, the Allnic L7000 is an outlier. Very few linestages are transformer coupled. 99% are capacitor coupled, some SS designs are direct coupled, and the Atmasphere MP1 and MP3 are unique in usuing a circlotron output stage. Now I leave to you th... | |
| What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen. Take a look at Mpingo dots, if you think the Shun Mook record weight is funny. If better stop there. | |
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time "Perhaps there was something in Jimmy's idea all along as can be seen by the approach of experienced designers such as Russell Kauffman (of Russell K loudspeakers) who don't use any wadding/damping material in their current designs. Instead they s... | |
| What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen. mofojo, Careful. Shun Mook has many true believers. Not including me. | |
| Am I a hopeless audio snob? Richopp, sorry old chap, but your paragraph on tangential tonearms is rife with misinformation. For one example, The best part about the B&O SL turntables was the MMC1 or MMC2 MI type cartridges with which the best of them were equipped. Furt... | |
| I am enjoying my analog system, but what can I do to improve? Small ESLs work fine in a small room, so long as you don't expect deep and thunderous bass notes. The M545 is medium size, as Sound Lab speakers go. And really, what does the amplifier have to do with it, except where one might say that a very po... | |
| Phono cables Tightening the L RCA connector was the key, I’d bet. Often the ground connection is made through the collar of the RCA jack. But why did you have hum only with stylus in groove? An unsolved mystery. | |
| I am enjoying my analog system, but what can I do to improve? Knock down one wall of your listening space. | |
| I am enjoying my analog system, but what can I do to improve? New cartridge will thrill you, not because there’s anything wrong with the 17DX but because of our nature as humans. | |
| Tube sound Comes, mainly, from? Pre or Power? I always feel uncomfortable discussing amplifier types without reference to the speaker. In my opinion, in assembling a good system, one must start with the speakers. Once you have chosen the speakers, then is the time to consider what type of amp... | |
| Can you run the HANA SL MC at 100 ohms? I do confess I like it loud or to sound like the musicians are in the room. This is mostly small group jazz with or without vocals. I only own a Radio Shack db meter, but it tells me I listen at 85-90db. Measured at my listening position. I know f... | |
| Tube sound Comes, mainly, from? Pre or Power? I think I was a bit too strong in my anti-transformer statement above. I have heard many transformer coupled tube amplifiers that sound excellent. I will just leave it at that. I do apologize to those who use such amplifiers. But my post was reall... | |
| Am I a hopeless audio snob? I wrote “brief fling”, so no, I certainly don’t still own it. It still has a certain kitsch however for having been featured in the movie “Clockwork Orange “. If I had one I’d display it with the platter in rotation but I’d not connect it to an au... | |
| Do hi-end DACs offer true value or diminishing return... You’d have to try hard to find a magnetic resistor these days. Even the cheapest available are more likely than not to be nonmagnetic. And although Audio Note silver foil in oil capacitors sound great, there are many less expensive alternatives th... |