lloydc
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| I'm curious. What is your "normal" listening volume? Sorry @sargonicuse, thanks for the link! | |
| I'm curious. What is your "normal" listening volume? @ ditusa, thanks! Cool app. 70-82 db. My apt is noisy, so less than that is little more than background. The ambient noise level affects how loud your music needs to be played, as well as its dynamic range. | |
| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? An absurd premise. The equipment needed to play it well greatly exceeds the cost of the collection. I don't think my 4000 or so records has much value. Too much effort would be required to extract it. My heirs will probably give it away. The ... | |
| Hearing Aids None of the top hearing aids are domestic products, so wouldn’t they be subject to the new tariffs? | |
| Hearing Aids @signaforce + 1. I would be interested to hear your results. | |
| Hearing Aids The problem is that, aside from Widex, the hearing aid designers pay no attention at all to the sound of music. As others point out, they are designed only for speech recognition (i.e., focused around the 2-3 khz region). One of my friends, who... | |
| Speaker Jumper/Link Cables - Best Ones? Nordost Valhalla, Tara Labs Omega Evolution OR.. "Warm" jumpers to ...tweeters? You might want to focus on the frequencies those jumpers are carrying. | |
| New Amp Advice The incremental improvement possible over the Mich is very, very small ( unless you move to tubes) and it can control every speaker you might desire - they don't get much better. There is considerable room for improvement to your speakers, turnta... | |
| Qualified service technicians disappearing! Recommendations wanted It kind of negates efforts to buy "made in USA" if it's no more easily repaired than that. | |
| What contributes most to a change in how an amplifier sounds? All of it contributes. The weight of an amp is its most important spec. | |
| In the sand box I had a Bright Star sandbox. It degraded the sound of my tube amp, and did not help the turntable, | |
| Accuphase class A amps - going up the food chain from an A-48 to an A-80 or A-300? @Toronto416, thanks for the heads-up! | |
| Isolation transformer question @ steakster, you are fortunate. It is my understanding that the larger the iso transformer, the more likely it is to hum. IME, there is always some hum on very large whole-house transformers, but they are located outside or in their own room, fa... | |
| PSVANE Discussion & Impressions Thread I too had reliability problems with some 12ax7 Psvanne tubes, which failed quickly, several years ago, so I swore off them, but I might try an improved design. I could use “phono quality” 12ax7’s, for a phono preamp. The only way I know to... | |
| Isolation transformer question You need to know that isolation transformers hum. I threw out a 2kv Soundtrapper isolation transformer because the noise of the hum more than counter-acted any perceived benefit to the electronics’ noise floor |