lloydc
Responses from lloydc
| McIntosh C2300 Contact McIntosh directly. Anything else is just a guess. | |
| back to ask again long sorry You seem to have almost concluded, through component changes, that the problem is not the components. it would be a PITA, but cost very little money, to determine once and for all whether the problem lies in your component chain or power delivery.... | |
| Has anyone ever cried listening to your system Yes, but it could have been the bondage. | |
| Before I upgrade my cart from Dyna 20xl to an XX2 Yet another Mint vote. It's the best place to start to address your issue. | |
| How is your power bill? My power bill (in Houston, Tx, where power is paradoxically expensive) goes up by about $150/mo. if I play the stereo a lot. There are 23 tubes plus two isolation transformers in use when vinyl is playing, so some of the cost is additional A/C to ... | |
| looking to upgrade rega planar 2 That glass platter is not the weakest link in a Planar 2. I would upgrade the arm, instead; improving the wiring (Incognito) and the counterweight (Origin live)both produce audible improvements. When you're ready to improve on the tt itself, it's ... | |
| Where do I learn more about audio stuff? right here, but the lunatic fringe and jerks are mixed together with excellent advice and interesting opinions from very nice people, and it's up to you to screen it. Eventually you learn which posters fall into each category. Stereophile (magazin... | |
| HELP Stylus Cantilever slightly bent to the left Have you done your alignment based on the cantilever, ignoring the postition of the cartridge? If so, it would seem that the geometry would be correct. | |
| Do amps sound better when left on for 30 minutes ? even my non-audiophile friend could hear when my tube amp was warmed up, about 30 minutes. | |
| Why the Blues Really Hit The Spot Chasmal, your knowledge is impressive, your points interesting, and I agree with much of what you wrote... but not your conclusion. The blues ain't exactly dead. I was lucky enough to hear SRV play many times in small clubs, in his prime, in the y... | |
| The day the music died. Buddy Holly | |
| Bruce at The Super Bowl.... Pretty good, for a superbowl show. At least it wasn't pre-recorded, as so many have been. | |
| Guitar's...what do the audionuts play? Pimentel Grand Concert; Fender Elite Strat, Vibroverb amp. | |
| Why the Blues Really Hit The Spot Blues is not definable in terms of its content, any more than a symphony, folk song or opera can be. It is a collection of musical forms using a particular scale. | |
| Why the Blues Really Hit The Spot Blues are based on a "simpler" 5-note scale that is not the same as the 12-note scale on which most classical and popular western music is based (of course, much popular music, e.g. rock, is based on the blues scale). But, with the blues, notes ar... |