mijostyn
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| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? Oh, I forgot to add. You do not need a Fozgometer or an oscilloscope to do this right with modern cartridges. A good eye and the right tools can do this perfectly. Back in the day cartridges were all over the place. Cantilevers set in crooked, sty... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? Stringreen, the most important thing I have learned in this passionate hobby over the last 55 years is, Never Trust Your Ears. The problem with ears is that they are connected to a brain. Brains can accommodate to stimuli in amazing ways. Example.... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? There are exactly two reasons why tonearms skate. The offset angle of the tonearm and friction of the stylus in the groove. The tonearm is being pulled towards the spindle leaving the stylus and cantilever behind forcing the cantilever's suspensio... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? If removing anti skating makes a vinyl playback system sound better then the setup is off somewhere. You can prove this to yourself with any good test record Like the HiFi News one. The anti skate adjust or Bias track has symmetrical test tones on... | |
| Best Way to Integrate Subwoofers? The problem with the Mc MEN220 and DBx Drive rack and to my way of thinking a serious flaw is that they do not have digital inputs! So, you start with a digital source which goes to a DAC turned into analog then to one of these units, converted ba... | |
| Dual vs single sub Oh, by the way I use dipole speakers with sealed subs and have absolutely no problem matching them up | |
| Dual vs single sub I have made dipole subs using 6 drivers aside. They do not work. Even with huge amounts of power and room control you can not get 20 Hz out of them effectively. IMH experience the best performance comes from sealed, enclosed 12" subs Q @ 7 with Ro... | |
| Dual vs single sub For all you people planning subs on a limited budget just buy the first one and add another when you can. For point source speakers 2 subs will get you 90% there. For you panel jockeys, Magnapans and electrostats you are going to have to shoot for... | |
| Hartley speakers--anyone heard/heard of? I worked with Sound Components in Miami back in the late 70s with Peter McGrath who I think now works for Wilson. This was the hey day of the Levinson HQD system that has been previously mentioned along with John Curl designed electronics. #6 25 w... | |
| I need your suggestion for a Preamp. For what it is worth, you have a Levinson system. I would just stick with Levinson. You are not going to get audibly better performance unless you jump to something like the Trinnov Amethyst which would increase the adjustability of your system 2 ... | |
| Amp or speaker issue? Walstib, is the crackle volume dependent? How much volume does it take to get the crackle started? Erik is right. Most likely it is the woofers failing. The surrounds and spiders fail and in some instances the voice coil lacquer deteriorates and t... | |
| Dual vs single sub Oh, by the way Duke, I am not trying to sell anything. | |
| Dual vs single sub Audiokinesis, It always helps to know what ideal is to make the best compromise in any given situation. 4 subs at 4 foot intervals with the outer two in corners does not approximate a linear array. It is most definitely a linear array up to 125 Hz... | |
| Best Way to Integrate Subwoofers? This is a very complicated problem. Forgetting the variability of speakers and subs there is a best way to do this but the market has not responded yet by providing the equipment options required to do this correctly. What is needed is a free stan... | |
| Dual vs single sub Audiokinesis, If you create a linear array very little energy disperses off the top and bottom or in this case to the side walls minimizing that interaction. Because the woofers are up against the front wall there is only the primary wave and no s... |