millercarbon
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| Better Records White Hot Stampers: Now the Story Can Be Told! Another one sort of like that, Kind of Blue, a search turned up the fact almost all the records and CDs out there are from a tape that was played on a deck with the wrong pinch roller that inadvertently changed the speed and pitch. Everyone is so ... | |
| Why the cost increase? Be patient; Covid Right. This is why the price of a bushel of corn was flat for over 200 years from 1650 well into the 1800's, but has climbed inexorably higher ever since 1913, and in particular since 1971. The Federal Reserve and the income t... | |
| Turntable rumble: what causes it? Rumble is bearing noise. In short the bearing does not turn perfectly smoothly. You don’t mention hearing anything so might not be that. What you describe is woofer pumping. Usually caused by environmental vibration- wind, machines, people moving ... | |
| Turntable isolation platform Recommendations? +1 to that, I always call John Hannant. https://www.audiogon.com/listings?q=Townshend+Seismic+Podium+Townshend+Audio | |
| power consumption of total components I don't know within 10% what my electric bill is in any given month. The only time it mattered was when I was mining bitcoin. Because then it was buying bitcoin with watts. My system is pleasure, not business. Sometimes wonder if audiophiles know ... | |
| New to Integrated stereo tube amps Blackhawk. I like it. | |
| Best drink while listening to your rig? Milk.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caOaQXdbFdg | |
| What Integrated Amp do You use Raven Blackhawk. Finally. | |
| Turntable isolation platform Recommendations? I'm sure glad that Townshend vibration isolation products are OK 'cause I just bought their whole product line for my entire system. No stone left unturned. Or unsprung I should say. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cI6KhH-x7w | |
| HiFi News Test Record Azimuth The electron microscope. By far the best images are obtained with electron microscopy. What is especially lovely about this is it only works with metal. So the record is cut up, the stylus and record and everything vapor deposition coated with met... | |
| Why the cost increase? Millercarbon ... You are one of the very few people I've met who understands the money issue. FrankThanks. Unfortunately we now apparently live in a world where even indisputable facts are deemed too controversial for publication. The first post e... | |
| Stylus Wear Question Been playing records since the 1970's. Brush dirt off the stylus after every side. If it sounds good it is good. Murphy's law: Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.Millercarbon's Corollary: Turntable testing expands to fill t... | |
| Why the cost increase? They call it QE, quantitative easing, to obscure the fact they are printing trillions of dollars from nothing. No one understands money (I do, no one else here, that's for sure) so no one understands that it is counterfeit currency not even really... | |
| New to Integrated stereo tube amps I bow to his ability to dish the slimy innuendo without having his posts removed. He can do it, apparently, just we can’t point it out as such.Meanwhile, back at Mission Control: The Eagle has landed! | |
| Turntable isolation platform Recommendations? Deferent level of something, for sure. |