millercarbon
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| Just wondering about speaker cables This was the first cable thing I ever tried, shotgun two runs of the same wire. Flash forward 20 years, Ted Denney Jr makes his element Copper Tungsten Silver speaker cables, three completely individual cables combined into one. I don't recommend ... | |
| Subwoofer Footing - Connect or Isolate? Put it on springs. Much better. Nobsound springs if you can only afford $30, or if you want the best then Townshend Pods or Bars. Pods are virtually as good but cost less and I think look better, as in you hardly see them.The curling stone is maxi... | |
| Raven Stereo Tube Amplifier Customer Service I hear you. But you have to understand, this is my schtick. I don't just buy stuff. I research the crap out of it, then once I know everything call and eat up hours and hours of the designer's precious time anyway, place my order, then call and ea... | |
| Raven Stereo Tube Amplifier Customer Service Good to know. Made in America is one of the reasons I went with Raven. Just got shipping notification my Blackhawk is on the way! Already I have a sort of similar experience. Through no fault of their own, just the normal supply chain horrors we h... | |
| Audiophile Vacations I have Taproot Manuscript. Does that count? | |
| Mains power quality worldwide. France is largely nuclear, the sound quality radiates. Germany has gone wind power, so when it works (and if you can afford it) you can look forward to a lot of air. Here in the US the east coast is coal, the sound is dark and grainy. On the west ... | |
| Vibration - What are the Main Sources? Meantime: practice makes perfect.A major source of vibration distortion is generated within the component itself. The entire audio signal is itself a vibration, oscillating back and forth positive to negative just constantly vibrating one transien... | |
| Townshend Audio Podiums: The Full Review The optimal amount of damping is very low, a few percent at most. Townshend accomplishes this by putting the spring inside a rubber bellows. A very small hole in the top plate allows a small amount of air to move in and out. Squeeze a Pod in your ... | |
| Townshend Audio Podiums: The Full Review You can try them that way. I would also try them directly on the Podiums without the footers. Either way I think you will find the Podiums are a big improvement that makes the speakers really come alive. | |
| Amplification: what are the biggest advances of the last 40 years? Is it that circuit design has advanced so much? Or is the bigger difference parts quality and the technology leading to these better parts?And please, none of the banal "it all matters" comments. What I'm asking: which of the above matters the m... | |
| The stereo sounds fine, music is great, but Jeff Bezos came back to earth. WTF? I thought he came from space? | |
| Suggestions for new earbuds or similar If you are mowing without hearing protection I feel for your ears. Especially since not only are you mowing, but adding even more noise on top of that with earbuds. The horror. | |
| WHAT SONG TOUCHES YOUR HEART THE MOST? I'm having a tough time choosing between Harry Belafonte Danny Boy and George Thorogood and the Destroyers I Drink Alone. | |
| Rank the tweaks, geeks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoN7_lR1MOwYes, impossible. Impossible to rank these. For the simple reason it is impossible even to say what it is this list means. Take one thing: speaker isolation. What speaker isolation? Spikes? Which spikes? C... | |
| Which cartridge for Graham 2.2 arm? I had the 2.0, upgraded to 2.2 by me. Ran a Benz Micro Glider, beautifully. I have no idea what mass or compliance, having learned long ago how little these matter. If you want to search and select on that basis, go for it. If it causes you to mis... |