millercarbon
Responses from millercarbon
| Opinions on differing power cable for amp and preamp Its kind of funny, some people seem to live in a strange beyond words universe where things like power cords know to sound different depending on what they are plugged into. Over here in my universe the power cord that sounds one way plugged into ... | |
| What’s the benefit of placing speakers like this? (diagonally at the corner) https://www.decware.com/paper14.htm | |
| Is cartridge Demagnetizing Necessary? Uh oh. On the one hand yes, using a demagnetizer on a cartridge is a bad idea because there's magnets in there and we do not want to mess with those. We only want to demagnetize the wire. Not the magnets. Just the wire. The wire itself we de... | |
| McIntosh fuse changeout to make better sound Reading some of this blather takes me back. Hard to believe now but I make no secret of it, there was a time when I too was dumb and ignorant as a rock. Everything I believed it turned out later was just plain wrong. But being arrogant and inexper... | |
| Record for vinyl. Journalism is dead. So dead the article itself contradicts the title. "Historic high"? Nope. "This was the biggest week for vinyl sales since Nielsen Music/MRC Data began electronically tracking music sales in 1991." So biggest week since vinyl w... | |
| Advise before I regret That was the old paradigm. | |
| For auld lang syne, ..high-end companies you really liked that are gone.... Linaeum | |
| Flat speaker sound/preamp the culprit?/external EQ needed? If its not a big glob of gunk on the stylus then its probably the phono stage. No amount of EQ ever gonna fix muddy. Better phono stage. Night and day. | |
| Mark Levinson 332 - Buying decision I dont want to buy it and end up with a $2.5k worth door stopper. So,what is the max you are willing to pay for a door stopper? | |
| Does Anyone Think CD is Better Than Vinyl/Analog? kren0006: So then, if we can agree that a top $300 digital front end beats a top $300 analog front end, how high up the source cost ladder must one climb before analog overtakes? Millercarbon: Well my 1976 Technics SL1700 was still in its box ... | |
| Better speakers Give the man credit, he makes a good point. | |
| Big amplifiers and heat dissipation in a small room Said before, say again: it ain't the amp. | |
| Best Power cable around/prefer under $300.... You are right, they are all much better than your freebie rubber power cord. Anything, absolutely anything is better than that. All those other cable suggestions are probably good. There is however only one in your price range that has stood the... | |
| Is cartridge Demagnetizing Necessary? What happened with me, came to realize the improvement is definitely there. Not real huge or obvious but there. Then it gets worse, but very gradually and so slowly its hard to notice. There is for example a bigger difference between just turned o... | |
| Is cartridge Demagnetizing Necessary? None of this is necessary. The question is does it make enough difference to be worth it? Demagnetizing definitely works. Do it regularly. One, play the demagnetizing tracks on the XLO Test CD. One sweep tone, one low frequency fade out. Totally ... |