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| 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... | |
| Am I a hopeless audio snob? Richopp, that’s the one I had, for a brief fling. The Vestigial tonearm was a hoot. But funnily back then I bought in the shortlived belief it was SOTA. | |
| Tube sound Comes, mainly, from? Pre or Power? This might be the world champion of reviving an old thread, since this one is 13 years old this year. I didn’t bother to reread the entire thing, but what most people think of as the tube sound in my mind has to do with the output transformer of t... | |
| Can you run the HANA SL MC at 100 ohms? 60-70db? With headphones, maybe I could hear the music at that SPL. From a speaker, that is barely above ambient noise. Anyway, carry on. You're fine. | |
| Do hi-end DACs offer true value or diminishing return... Raul, Was trying to be funny. Of course, the OP is free to post on the Digital Forum, as well. I wish he would have exercised that freedom, in fact. |