millercarbon
Responses from millercarbon
| Buying used: how old is too old? Speaker technology has advanced so much that I doubt you will be able to find anything from 20 years ago that will not be flat out blown out of the water by $4500 Tekton Moabs. So the question then becomes can you find any really old speakers that... | |
| Money Well spent When it comes to wire, if you have the budget Townshend F1 for sure, or below that the similar Townshend Isolde. Below that in terms of price there are so many choices my approach is to go with the odds-on favorite Synergistic Research. I say t... | |
| Raven Blackhawk LE... am I going to be disappointed? Holy smokes! I just ordered a Blackhawk. But, wow, tempted to drive down there. Yes it is a long drive but, wow! | |
| Do I NEVER shut it off…? I believe that if you have a well regulated power supply, an amp can be turned off. A well regulated power supply, being necessary to quality of a high end system, the right of the people to leave it on shall not be infringed. | |
| Measuring VTF with electronic gauge.... No, but the pot shops here in Seattle sure are. So what I do, buy a gram, put the green bud on the Shure, zero it out at 1g. Transfer weed to bowl. Drop the stylus, adjust VTF, light the bowl. Very important these be done in that order. You can tr... | |
| Stratospheric audio gear prices The meaning of life is to be alive. Duh. Without it there'd be nothing. Think about it. | |
| Money Well spent Devil Dog, eh? Semper fi! | |
| Putting together turntable rig So you are looking at about a $10k budget to start. I've done this enough to know there really is no right or wrong way, not at all like people want to make you think. Still you have the right idea, just need to shift the priorities a little. Th... | |
| Different amplifier class for different music genres? Don't listen to these guys. They just don't want to spend the money to do it right. Class D are for dining rooms, but only for dinner, unless of course you are playing disco. Class A/B are the best, they can be use almost anywhere, bedrooms, bathr... | |
| Help Me Improve My Turntable Set-Up Okay budget table, probably don’t want to put a $400 table on a $1200 Platform. Even though it would be awesome. Really. You have no idea how good this stuff works until you try it. But okay, I get it. In that case then use Nobsound springs. You w... | |
| Help Me Improve My Turntable Set-Up Tekton. No, seriously. Harbeth are more subtle nuance than come alive. Tekton are spilling over with come alive. Double Impact you will go wow that’s what I’m talking about! Moab and you will be all mad scientist, "It’s ALIVE!!!" Other things you ... | |
| Money Well spent Yes but silver lining, there will be no bragging about the Spelling Bee Trophy. | |
| Using a sub with no sub out on my amp Your amp is fine. 2 options- buy a sub with speaker level inputs, or add a Line Out Converter to run a sub at line level off your speaker terminals. Either way no changes to the amp and won't affect the amp.A LOC is just a couple 10k to 20k resist... | |
| Is there a point of diminished returns with amps and Harbeth 30.1s? Put the turntable on Townshend Pods (or Platform) it will be a huge upgrade. Put the speakers on Podiums, if you can. Might not be convenient if they are moved around a lot. Synergistic PHT and ECT on the turntable, HFT on the speakers (and walls,... | |
| Townshend Audio ones Through Those are BDR Round Things. I have a lot of BDR from back in the 90's when it was pretty much the best thing around. So for years they were under everything. Pods and Podiums are a lot better, hugely better. But they can be used together. In my ca... |