millercarbon
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| Will this speaker work You've fallen into the trap of thinking more is better. In reality its not until you get to a budget orders of magnitude greater that separates start to make sense. Maybe not even then. Your turntable choice is fine. What you need from there is ... | |
| Dedicated circuit Hey skids, ask these geniuses what their advice is based on. I’ve installed panels, sub panels, wired my house, wired my listening room three times, first with a conventional circuit, then direct 4 ga, then had that cryo’d, then converted it to 22... | |
| Herron VTPH-2A or Manley Chinook mk II phonostage Haven't heard the Chinook, but that description of the Herron, dynamic, punchy, airy without being stringent, spooky layered dimensionality, is spot on. It also nails instrumental tone and timbre so that each instrument sounds so much more its tru... | |
| What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen. roxy54-I'm still wondering about your ears.The problem isn't in the ears, its in the brain. It takes a lot of time and effort to compare and evaluate different components. Are they really going to do that when already convinced it can't possibly m... | |
| What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen. Wow, Bayesian, you say? Wow! You must be one a them probabilistic audiophiles. Heard about em, hardly ever met one. Do you ever listen? Or do you just blow smoke all over the interwebs? Took me a good several months in the beginning to learn to l... | |
| Turn Table Cable Length Oh my. Either the OP thought better of his irrational outburst or some prude had it removed. What a shame. Still, surely this summary of sage advice deserves to pass the test of time: 20ft on turntable will give you diffuse sound with crappy detai... | |
| What kind of listening chair It should be comfortable. | |
| Static electricity Zerostat only neutralizes charges during use. Problem is a spinning record is a charge generator that certain materials only makes worse. Like noise and hum problems there's seldom a silver bullet its more about shot-gunning to get as many as poss... | |
| Turn Table Cable Length At 20 feet, to say perfection isn't in the hunt is, uh, redundant. So buy 20 feet of wire. Whatever. | |
| Perfect Pop Songs It’s actually quite difficult to define what pop is. Anyone remember when Smells Like Teen Spirit was grunge? Heard it the other day in Whole Foods. Probably playing in an elevator somewhere this very minute. From cult rock to Muzak. Somewhere ... | |
| Still Need Help A common problem exacerbated by your relatively light weight turntable. Mass being one of the easier ways of controlling vibration. It simply takes a lot more energy to move a large mass than a small one. Okay so you need more mass. The classic ... | |
| music of boy bands Was thinking more School of Rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMvpJDbWX_c | |
| ISO Pucks with Harbeth and Sklyan Stands There's lots of things like those pucks that will work to improve sound. Then there's things like springs that work a whole lot better. With springs you can go two ways: cheap and pretty good, or expensive and amazingly good. Cheap and pretty goo... | |
| music of boy bands You're a teacher? Sounds like an opportunity to teach your students a little music appreciation. A little music theory. There's tone (the notes) there's volume (dynamics) and rhythm (the beat). All these things vary and work together to make a co... | |
| Why so many angry audiophiles? Oblivious audiophiles can sometimes have that effect on people. To get a feel for just how infuriating it can be when clueless people rudely interrupt a productive conversation watch this amazingly metaphorical dramatization: https://www.youtube.c... |