listener57
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| Decoupling monitors from a dresser? Herbiesaudiolab.comClick on "misc" to get to webpage with"Extra-Thick grungebuster Mini-Dots," each is $1.19.Place three or four under each mini-monitor speaker.Self leveling, no staining, or scratching of dresser.Reading the rest of the website w... | |
| Regards to the Rack The ninety day home trial period with some "footers" ideas from Herbiesaudiolab.comshould allow you to use your existing furniture, at the same time experiencing a significant audible upgrade. It will give you a baseline of vibration control, agai... | |
| Suggestions: Best speaker/sub combo for Desktop PC Clay49,Orbaudio.com "Classic One" setup with stereo pair, and subwoofer, fits the bill - $529 is not as cheap as Bose,but when you check out the website, your more professional/perfectionist need for truly fine miniature speaker computer sound may... | |
| Cartridge recommendations for Rega RB 1000 Also, check out the replacement counterweight selling from Audiogon seller, Gregory_kerryIt made my Rega RB300 tonearm into a real music maker. Night and day difference.It fits on the RB1000, also. | |
| CD Distortion While this particular example of distortion seems to be intrinsic to a poor recording, when there is just a hint of "strain" in delivery of a musical crescendo, or actual "glare" resembling distortion in the treble, "The Black Hole" CD mat (new ve... | |
| Marigo 3D vs Signature I have bought the different generations of Marigo CD mats, as they periodically came up for sale on Audiogon, and elsewhere.The latest Signature mat is most revealing of details you wouldn't even realize were captured by the recording engineer, an... | |
| Where can I get speaker OUTRIGGERS? Also, check out mihorn.com, where you can see Mi-stand listing. | |
| Creating a turntable mat Johnnyb53,Thanks for sharing the results of your ingenuity. Have been listening to the differences among a few record mats placed onto an older Luxman auto-return turntable. This comes with the factory provided aluminum platter already bonded to a... | |
| Vibration and Isolation at a budget? Also, click on "footers" at Herbiesaudiolab.com where there are many affordable products to handle vibration.The economical, and wonderfully effective, Big Fat Dots for beneath a speaker, and Tenderfeet for beneath a component, come with Herbie's ... | |
| Lubricate track of straight line tracking tone arm Thanks to everyone who offered an opinion. For now, all is working well, so will hold off doing anything.If the time arrives when the arm no longer moves smoothly, then the suggestion to use an alcohol dampened lint-free microfiber cloth may be th... | |
| Tube Amps on Sistrum Platforms For my particular Cary SLA-70 Sig stereo tube amp, using Mapleshade Ultimate Triplepoint v.3 Brass Footers between the amp and the maple board, seemed to enable the most "substantial" or full bodied, yet accurate, presentation. That is the synergy... | |
| Best Mod companies to tweak Transports Krell_man,EVS is on the net at tweakaudio.comRic Schultz has been mod'ing longer than most, his original ideas are uniformly well executed, and his buyers are loyal.I still have his Millennium Ib, and Millenium II DAC's, which still out-do many ne... | |
| Speaker Cable Suggestion Soon will be at three year anniversary using Straley's Reality IC's and speaker cable, from Realitycables.comTheir value for a reasonable price continues to be so impressive that not restless to replace in the systems where being used. The OFC RCA... | |
| Is the Ginko Cloud 11 the best isolation for a VPI Another variation on this is to try Herbiesaudiolab.com proprietary "grungebuster" balls to replace the original Cloud balls in this already great design.This makes less critical the surface upon which the Cloud sits, because the grungebuster ball... | |
| Two "Different" Rectifier Tubes in Pair OK??? If you play one amp through one speaker in order to hear how one rectifier tube in one amp sounds, and then switch to the differently constructed rectifier tube in this single amp, you will probably hear a subtle difference.Or, just relax, and pla... |