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| What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen. What is wrong with tuning your listening room to suit your listening preference, so long as you have the sound of live, preferably unamplified music in a live venue as your comparator? To achieve that end, or get close to it, you need to experien... | |
| Now that I have my Tri-planar tone arm, I ask for recommendations for a new cartridge. Those Miyajima cartridges are very fine indeed, but aren't they low compliance? In my experience, the Triplanar does its best with "medium" compliance cartridges. For one example, the Triplanar never got the best out of my Koetsu Urushi, whereas... | |
| Audiosilente idler wheel versus Artisan Fidelity idler wheel for a Garraed 401 I'm glad someone else revived this thread. Up the thread, I wrote to Mozart: "Machining down the diameter of the idler would reduce platter speed." Xactaudio seemed to disagree with me. I am always ready and willing to learn if I made an error ... | |
| What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen. Just make sure you place the audiopoints at the end of each chair leg, facing downward to the floor. Placing them facing up on the seat bottom will be instantly destabilizing the moment you sit down. | |
| Crosley should be arrested for selling junk Noromance, My response to your OP was equally tongue in cheek. I can't resist a good one-liner. Big Rodney Dangerfield fan. | |
| Review of the SMARTractor and SMARTstylus MC, If you make an error locating the pivot point while setting P2S distance, it is quite possible to end up with only one null point on the playing surface of a typical LP, or none at all. Plus it could exacerbate tracking angle errors that occu... | |
| Copper, silver, or gold MC cartridge coils? At some point early in the history of the ZYX Universe, which according to legend is a "special" model originally developed for USA distribution only, one or more reviewers opined that the copper coil/low output version of the UNIverse was the bes... | |
| What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen. Audio2design, You are absolutely correct about the frozen yoghurt incident that I witnessed. The fuse probably had nothing to do with it. I realized this about 15 minutes after posting, but at that time I was out of the house doing something more... | |
| What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen. Dear Mijo, In my original post on your disdain for fuses, I acknowledged that the little fuse screwed into the back of your equipment indeed cannot prevent damage due to a lightning strike. However, lightning strikes are rare as..... getting struc... | |
| What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen. In support of the fuse. Mijo, You are wrong. Sure, there are failure modes where the fuse fails to protect the circuit. But there are many more failure modes where the fuse will save your ass if not also your power transformer. Power transform... | |
| New Hobby Ultrasonic Record Cleaning Everything "works", compared to doing nothing. | |
| Analog Lp Chakster, Please re-read my post. I explicitly wrote that Japanese pressings these days and for a few decades past are excellent. Usually, they are re-issues, typically of American jazz classics that the Japanese adore as much as we do. I was onl... | |
| New Hobby Ultrasonic Record Cleaning Dear OP, I asked a simple question out of my own curiosity, about what you are using in your tank. There is some difference of opinion and practice among those who clean LPs using US; some use surfactants and/or mild detergents and some use pure ... | |
| New Hobby Ultrasonic Record Cleaning What Mijo said.In fact a danger of US cleaning is heat build up. The last thing you want to do is add heat energy to the tank. Are you cleaning with pure water, or do you add some other constituents? | |
| Analog Lp As one of the few of us who actually lived through the years prior to 1979 and who was an audiophile prior to 1979, let me say that the only drawback to well produced post-1979 LPs is that the master tapes from which the original (pre-1979) LPs we... |