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| Any experience with Yeil "Spike Sound Will" feet? Spikes are used by severly disordered teenagers to mutilate themselves. Audio addicts call them carpet piercing pointed footers for use with speakers or if used for supporting a component they are called cones or cone footers.By themselves they ar... | |
| Homegrown Audio HGA I am the second owner of a pair of Silver Lace with countless hours on them.The above comments that they lack detail is not the case . In fact I use them as the leads from my table to the phono stage. They are indeed very detailed and revealing. I... | |
| $1200... What would you buy? Get a used MMF-5 as a starter table it originally came with that $300 crtridge .The old MMF-5 came with a GR1021 a moving magnet by goldring.As well with a clamp, cover etc all set up. People it appears think they want to go analog. After giving i... | |
| Alternate speaker stand damping material... Tungsten alloy or coated lead. | |
| What is the chain of importance in analog system ? I think this analog analysis is a tad microscopic. The most important piece of matter is the record itself. If it is terribly worn out, scratched up by a cat in heat, cracked or have moguls for warps it really can't sound good. It relys on - no go... | |
| Hyperion 938 speakers, what amp? Directly Heated Singled Ended Triode vs a Push Pull in Ultralinear or single ended?The first one is the simplest and supposedly purest type of amp with a topology that relies on amplification from a single tube. While you could construct such an a... | |
| 6SN7 driver tubes I wrote an assay wich went somewhere. The upshot is . IMHO the Sylvanias are my favorites especially the chrome heavy T plates that are directly opposed with 3 rivets. Brent Jesse of AudioTubes.com can set you up with true NOS tubes for $20 each,o... | |
| Amp to match Musical Fidelity A3.2 CD pl Is the amp M-## e.g. 80 or BU-2? If so send it to my trash-I and scarce few know the respect required.I know the most efficient disposal method.The answer is get an MF amp, like their all class A one with modest power ?30W?. It is an integrated I ... | |
| Wool Rugs A double thick layer of the best and thickest natural beaver felt laid atop sound absorbing composite from 3M. Or the nex time get a flokati rug with long hair. Shampoo and condition it the next time a flood occurs. Then blow dry it straight using... | |
| Do tubes need break in / burn in? In general burn in will take the edges off. However the sound after about 10 to 20 hours is going to represent the end product to a great extent.Your pre may not have a circuit they will work in as mentioned above. A CD player I bought early in th... | |
| biwired RCA speaker cables? Shotgun or double run in same jacket? It simply prvides you with more flexibility to bi or triamp. Watch that the speaker doesn't complete a circuit from one amp to the other. As might occur by leaving the buss bar on,when using to different amps,... | |
| Most musical integrated amp you have heard? Jadis DA-60 | |
| Which 12AX7 tubes for EAR 834P phono stage? The important issue is noise. you can only really use tubes tested for noise and microphony, by a really good reliable dealer RAM tubes are famous for this. As is Upscale and a number of others. Whatever flavor you decide upon they above all else ... | |
| I have 1500 cds I am no expert in and haven't done it myself so I hope others chime in. It's file type in this case it is considered one of the more exact,well,a virtually exact copy of the digital data it is given. CD-W is simply a ripped copy I was thinking of ... | |
| Budget amp recommendation needed With the sensitivity of JBLs you can use whatever you want except for SETs flea watt amps. But really very little I mean than 25-50WPC int. amps and receivers should be OK.. Did you specifically say SS no tube or just an Integrated.I will assume S... |