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| How Good Is A Marble Slab at Deadening Vibration If you want to use stone, get a shelf made of steatite (Brazilian soapstone). It is amorphous, impermeable, extremely dense, and does not ring in any way. When oiled it reveals the natural striations and grain that are beautiful, in my opinion. Wh... | |
| Top resistors Even in Australia where I come from - and where we have crocs, and not 'gators - these were known as "alligator clips". The alligator has a rounded U-shaped snout whereas a crocodile has a narrower V-shaped snout. The clips more resemble an alliga... | |
| Fuses that matter. 05-23-13: Vhiner writes:an outfit called "Littlefuse. "Forgive me, but the company is called Littelfuse. I believe they are one of the largest manufacturers of fuses in the world. They have an extremely broad inventory of fuses.Regards, | |
| Sara K cd recommendations "Play on Words" SACD Chesky H M "Hell Or High Water" SACD Stockfisch H M "Closer Than They Appear" Chesky J067 US Regards, | |
| Hammacher Schlemmer has Kronos $28,000 Wow - so it does.http://www.hammacher.com/Regards, | |
| Used, $1500 and not Oppo... I'd buy a NEW Sony SCD-5400ES for $1500 - long break in time, but well worth the wait. They are available at the Sony on-line store if you have trouble locating a dealer with stock.Regards, | |
| LAMM2.1 with Tannoy Westminster Royal SE Speakers JA wrote in his measurement side bar to Art Dudley's review (October 2004) "Note that the Lamm's low-frequency response is commendably flat down to the 10Hz limit of these graphs". I am not surprised by the observation above by Syntax.Regards, | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? Sorry - I did not mean to imply that. Should have been more explicit. I was commenting on the post above by Noromance.Regards, | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? Bentley Mulsanne - sweet.Regards, | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? 04-04-13: Jmowbray writes:Raul: regarding revisiting gems from the past, I submit that this is particularly appropriate as we approach the thread's 10,000th postI post for no particular reason but to help to see the post count hit 5 digits.Regards, | |
| Is the Oppo-105 with Modwright modifications EVS is Ric Schultz.http://www.tweakaudio.com/Regards, | |
| High End In China: Visiting This Summer I've never been to China. Irrespective of your hifi search over there, I hope you have a wonderful time. I'm jealous.Regards, | |
| iphone music Third option: If your iPhone is pre-Lightning. Get a dock to RCA cable. Analogue to your system but bypassing the internal headphone amp. RAM Electronics have decent cables for $30.Regards, | |
| Early pressings v remastered I'm a big collector of early pressings of CDs, and mostly prefer them over remastered CDs but some stand out as being superior. The DCCs, many of the MFSLs, the Roxy Music box set, Steve Wilson's "Aqualung", Alan Yoshida's XRCDs.Regards, | |
| Who is Linn of New Hampshire As Roxy54 points out, the photos in the Gallery on the Linn Audio Loudspeakers are clearly manipulated. I looked at all of them and none appear to be real photos of real rooms. The speakers are obviously patched in - and in most photos, the other ... |