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| AC outlets The reason all these little things like outlets and faceplates matter is a combination of electrical continuity, electrical field control, and vibration control. Different outlets and covers target different aspects of all of these. The ones you a... | |
| Next to theaters, cars are the ideal speaker environment Large flat reflective surface right in front of your face. More large flat reflective surfaces inches from your ears. Speakers down by your feet, some within inches others several feet away. With a great big obstacle in between. Honestly, it is ha... | |
| Can you increase the efficiency of vintage speakers? Thought at first 73 had to be a typo. I had a pair of these myself, yellow with orange grills, and they are more like 92-95dB. 73dB is just off the charts low. But then I did a search and found the factory owner’s manual. https://www.manualslib.co... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. Zero anti-skate for alignment purposes.Whenever you hear distortion, test track or otherwise, always remember the Left channel is on the Left (inside) side groove wall, and the Right channel is on the Right (outside) groove wall. Anti-skate pulls ... | |
| Best integrated for my purposes - help me choose 1 of 3! At $3k you are into the range of a Raven Blackhawk, an amp that is in a whole different league, so much better than the rest you would not believe. But it does not have the silly bells and whistles you want. All of which (HT bypass, omg.) do nothi... | |
| Better Records White Hot Stampers: Now the Story Can Be Told! oregonpapa-I’ve heard plenty of Better Records’ "White Hot Stampers." As MC says, they are simply amazing. When played back on a highly resolving system, there is nothing like them. These recordings go back a long way, back into the early 1940s mo... | |
| Better Records White Hot Stampers: Now the Story Can Be Told! I tested the waters of Better Records and bought one of the lower priced offerings and was not really blown away but it does sound quite good. A fair assessment. The least expensive Hot Stampers (A+) are quite good. Probably better than most recor... | |
| Did I make a cable mistake? Let me get this straight. You are on your third Mark Levinson, and worried that you may have made a mistake with your cables? | |
| The guru on fuses: Someone directed me here. So I just wasted the last five minutes on this drivel. The one entertaining bit, the "don't care" kids who all hear the difference so easily they can only think anyone who can't is like grandma, they can only hear you whe... | |
| Do I hurt my ears by listening to music at... If you have tinnitus, 75dB is not the cause. Unless it is 75dB real continuous and for hours. But even then that will usually only be a short term loss. Like when you get out of the car after a long trip, the road noise means you need a few hours ... | |
| Better Records White Hot Stampers: Now the Story Can Be Told! I get where you're coming from. In most people's experience the difference between pressings, unless you get a really bad one, the differences in actual sound quality are very slight. That is not what we are talking about here. The difference betw... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear Obscure? Crawler. Behold! No, seriously, listen! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxyg2cHQdUw | |
| The indisputable benefit of fiber for music Here's a good one. When I ask about a simple mod you respond saying don't do it the voltage is LETHAL (just like that, ALL CAPS) and that even if unplugged I will kill myself. But when it comes to a lightning strike, millions of volts, more than e... | |
| Better Records White Hot Stampers: Now the Story Can Be Told! audioguy85-Digitizing vinyl? Ugh...it defeats the whole purpose of buying vinyl.Correct. The thing with vinyl, the noise is of a nature that is obvious and easy for anyone to hear. Even the most rudimentary novice audiophile, if the pop is loud en... | |
| Open Letter To REL, SVS, Hsu, etc., et al What do you need with test tracks? Use music. Unless of course you enjoy listening to test racks all day, play more test tracks than music, in which case what are your favorite test tracks to listen to? You could make a compilation tape of test tr... |