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| rule of thumb: how long do you leave a tube preamp on versus turning it off then back on? SS takes days to sound its best. Days. With tubes it is more like hours. With records there is the motor. When you hear improvement across the first side of a record, that's why. Try turning it on, spinning the platter an hour or so. There will st... | |
| And yet, another speaker query It's pretty common. Years ago helping a friend learn audio we went to several stores listening to lots of different speakers. I made a point of playing the same few tracks to help him learn listening skills. Like I said years ago yet I still remem... | |
| Better Records White Hot Stampers: Now the Story Can Be Told! bdp24-It is arguable that every audiophile-quality LP is a White Hot Stamper .....Not even mentioned....Is that you never bought or heard one, and so are as a matter of fact blathering pure ad copy and amply embellished imaginings. Am I right? Tel... | |
| Help me tame my out of control bass Looks like pretty normal room response to me. Find me a room that does not have humps like that. Good luck! All that happened, you finally got some good speakers with good bass. Now you want to get rid of a lot of what is great about your speakers... | |
| Speaker Upgrade Recommendation for Current Analog System - under $10,000 Budget Fan boys do not actually exist. What does exist is snobs. So when someone finds something real good and shares this experience, the snob "knows" it can't be as good as his Wilson, Magico, Mark Levinson, (fill in your favorite astronomically overpr... | |
| Subwoofer Recommendations You want low bass but have specifically ruled out the one most economical way of getting it. You will now proceed to spend more, probably even taking up more space, than the one method that will actually produce the low bass you want. Oh well.Own ... | |
| Setting up a swarm They do. To whatever extent they put out bass they are serving as separated bass source locations. The whole idea is to have moe low frequency location sources.This applies to all speakers. There was a guy last year asking what is the best way to ... | |
| Setting up a swarm Yes the drivers face the wall. About 2" away. Not that it is all that big a deal. Bass waves are so long direction hardly matters. What does matter though is they look better that way! Honestly, that is the reason! Powered subs are no different. ... | |
| Better Records White Hot Stampers: Now the Story Can Be Told! Fremer is right, as far as he goes. The way I think of those kind of hot wax stamper things is, you can use it to avoid buying a whole lot of crap that may have come off a crap stamper. A crap stamper will stamp crap from the first pressing until ... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. Incredible the amount of confusion generated by such a simple thing. Given a teeter-totter you guys would figure out a way of explaining it that would go on for years and never get there.Pivoted arms use a geometry that is cobbled together from a ... | |
| The guru on fuses: Jesus Tom, you had me waste half an hour reading all this bending wave speaker stuff only to learn at the very end this borderline magical technology is 86dB at 2.8 ohms. In other words, useless.Oh well, at least I learned something. Unlike these ... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. Justme, what I objected to in MC’s generalization was his saying “no overhang, no skating force”. I believe that is a direct quote from his post. The fact is that any pivoted tonearm, whether it overhangs the spindle or not will generate a skating... | |
| Trying to understand B&W’s trickle down strategy The way I understand it is the sound does trickle down. So if you can stand what comes out of the expensive ones this trickles down to where you can probably stand the cheap ones too. That's the trickle theory. Climb out of that valley, search the... | |
| I have been wanting to try using a tube amp. Read the reviews, you will not be disappointed. Nighthawk is a pretty good step up from Blackhawk, it uses all their higher end caps. Also has a higher quality four step powder coat finish. Warm-up is no big deal, turn on when you get home, let it... | |
| Which VTF Scale are you using? I'm using some digital POC, which I will until the battery goes and dies or leaks and self-destructs it. Then the Shure will come out. Gravity it turns out is more reliable, no matter what the haters say. |