mijostyn
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| Used TechDAS Air Force III vs New Feickert Firebird with Kuzma Safir 9 vs SME 20 MK 2 OK. Items I want on a turntable are an isolating suspension, vacuum clamping, a magnetic thrust bearing and a versatile arm I can adjust to the majority of cartridges. In terms of clamping, reflex clamping is a second best and a good standard thru... | |
| Free air resonance @unreceivedogma , That is exactly the point. You want as little baffle showing as possible. I just finished building new subwoofers, They are 30 inch long, 15" in diameter with a 12" driver stuck in both ends. The construct is easy. I did it for d... | |
| Atma-Sphere MA 2s for Dummies (by a dummy) @o_holter The wall the SLs are on is 16 feet. The rear of the room does not have a wall. It is open to the rest of the house. If you were to imagine a wall it would be at 25 feet. I did not get full sized 845s which are 40" wide. I got 36" wide 8... | |
| Will I benefit from upgrading REL subwoofer pair @hilde45 Phase and time alignment are two separate issues. A sub can be in phase with the main speakers but two cycles late. The sub has to be in phase and on time. The only ways to adjust time are either by digitally delaying the "late" speaker... | |
| Free air resonance @unreceivedogma Actually, I would modify that design to make the baffle 18 X 18" decreasing the size of the face. A tube would be perfect. You can buy aluminum pipe in that diameter. This assumes a cutoff at 100 Hz. It would be like the driver s... | |
| Free air resonance @unreceivedogma Great. I'll bet they are plywood. The older manufacturers used plywood. MDF did not become available until the late 60s. Plywood is stiffer than MDF and will resonate at a higher frequency. It is also lighter and not as well damp... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" I feel like I am at the wine tasting of a local winery. I live in New Hampshire. @rich121 I hate being diminutive. If I hold up a tennis ball and let go, which way is it going to go? The chemistry of a record cleaning solution is at least a sub... | |
| Turntable is the most expensive in the chain, do it make sense @pindac That's cheating 😶 | |
| Will I benefit from upgrading REL subwoofer pair @atanarjuat99 Hi Nadine, You have a complex problem. The largest component of the problem is a large squarish room. The speaker system and room have to be considered as one. Do you sit in a listening position and focus completely on the music o... | |
| Subwoofer Balderdash. | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" @rich121 Let me get this straight. You go through all this trouble making ultrapure water only to contaminate it with dirty records over and over again. Then, you use an evaporative drying technique that redeposits all that stuff that was not in... | |
| Turntable is the most expensive in the chain, do it make sense @sksos You are supposed to listen to records, not turntables. | |
| Turntable is the most expensive in the chain, do it make sense @lewm This morning. She likes it😛 | |
| Free air resonance @unreceivedogma I could not afford them either. Just happened to be at the right place and time. I read an Altec spec sheet on the Duplex and the 3dB down point was 60 hz which would be about right for a woofer of that type of construction. T... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" @mojo771 A good vacuum machine will not leave any water in the groove. If you do not see any water or humidity on the record you are good to go. The other approach would be to continue vacuuming a little longer. Mold will grow on the record and ... |