loontoon
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| What makes an interconnect sound like it does? The termination, and for you flat earthers that believe that only gas tight crimp will do, I got news for ya, there's a darn good reason that the government spec's solder for it's termination joints. Repeatability and reliability. Only in theory i... | |
| Hupp phono stage? I'll bet it either your charger of the battery.Neither should be a problem to upgrade, but--I doubt anyone digs this fellow up. It was a nice head amp in it's day.jeff | |
| Newb - damaged cartridge? There is no recovery, however you may try and adjust the stylus such that is in the correct relationship to the vinyl. It may not be possible due to limited tonearm adjustment. Ooops,The good news is the cartridge was not all that expensive.loontoon | |
| Electronic crossover recommendations A Rane AC-22, modified, new chips, caps, power supply and a bypass of some sections. New pots work well also. Less than 300$ if buy one used and it will go head to head with anything. Rane will give you a start on improving the sound on thier web ... | |
| Threshold? Is a very nice amp, still have it, and I have tubes, I go back and forth, the tube amps have been traded for different tube amps, and I futz with caps, and roll tubes, and then change the amp.The T Hold remains. | |
| Using modern cartridges on a vintage turntable I would try on that table either the Ortofon X-5MC, or the lower numbers. If you look you should be able to pick this cartridge up for about 100-120 street price new. On the site like Lyle, and Vinyl Doc, they are listed at 350.So hunt, and this s... | |
| Speakers with Depth Layering abilities Spica's do nice depth, at a low cost, good driver two ways do depth, 3 ways are harder to do, due to baffle width.Amp/speaker combo is the big difference, layers and such come out with system tuning and tweaks. Your into the short and curly's now.... | |
| New arm recommendations? Yo dude, your wife is right, but --- look for an older sumiko or SME arm in the less than 100$ range should get you by for a while.Say there are Dr.'s for audionervosa.Good luck, | |
| Power Conditioning? What About Tripp Lite?? Just my thoughts. | |
| 3.6 Maggie owners input needed on amps........... Big watts, clean into low impedance is a helpful.Find an old Stasi Threshold, an old Levinson 23, the 23,5 is a tad better but soooo expensive. Or hey you like Adcom, try a new Adcom amp. Or: Coda, or MUSE, a couple of 160 MK II in mono may do the... | |
| What phono setting to use for Plinius 8200 The amp amplifies the signal presented, it it's low the out put from the amp will be low. The position indicated is not indicitive of how hard the amp is working. So if the sound is not enough get over the look of the know position, the amp is not... | |
| Another Time and Phase thread Go to www.madisound.com and go to the forum section.All arguements about all things speakers, building, and of course the phase arguement are all there.If the speaker is coherent at the X/O point that's awesome, and if it varies from that point, t... | |
| Good News for "Threshold" Fans......... PASS Audio rose to fame, and Coda became another respected name, so Threshold is dredging through old designs and trying to make a go. Personally I follow the PASS direction.loontoon | |
| The finest technically recorded album. LP or CD The original vinyl copy has to be the best, I have 3 different copies, all but the CD remastered, and still the original is the best, even better than the MFSL version.jeff | |
| Songs of the sea and shanties It's all old Irish folk songs of the sea and fishing.jeff |