millercarbon
Responses from millercarbon
| What made you put together your first 2nd system? I've just fired up my 23rd second system. Or as I like to call it, the laptop. | |
| Revisiting Step Down Transformers (220V to 110V) You do not need anywhere near 5KW. Those ratings you added up were all the absolute max current draw, something only achieved during the first brief moment after turn-on when the power supply caps are empty and filling. Nothing even close to that ... | |
| Does a taste for high end audio, also carry over into your other interests? The difference is black berries matter. | |
| The Blob Opera The original Blob cannot be improved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdUsyXQ8Wrs | |
| What made you put together your first 2nd system? My first second system? Just how many second systems do you have? | |
| Using 200w amp with 300w rms speaker Sensitivity is correct because we are measuring how sensitive the speaker output volume is to the input signal. This is not the same as efficiency, which relates to how efficient the speaker is at doing work vs heat. The same driver has the same e... | |
| What if any, is the difference between a band or a group? A band holds things together. A group is more than one. Got it? | |
| How do you avoid buying new LPs that sound just like CDs? When nothing less than the best sound quality will do https://better-records.com/collections/new-arrivals Spoiler alert: not cheap! | |
| Casters on equipment rack? It all comes down to your priorities. If sound quality uber alles then you want everything fixed in place and on springs. I give myself just enough room to reach behind, and it ain't easy but it can be done and I don't mind how hard it is because ... | |
| Tim deParavicini has passed away Wow, a real legend. Had one of his amps. Another friend, horrible system, but the one thing he did that made it sound really good for a while was a Tim deParavicini pre amp. Whatever mad skills it takes to make gear sound good, he had it in spades... | |
| Experience using a subwoofer with Tekton speakers? That's a good setup you've got. Mesmerizing, I bet. What you want for bass are four subs. Don't have to be big, powerful or expensive. Just have to be four. The smaller the room the more important its four. Because multiple subs creates much more ... | |
| Roots, ie: how did your music/sound/audio life/listening begin? Floating weightless, fascinating lights dancing, bending, sparkling. The most wonderful feeling in the world, beyond words. Literally. Until some few years later I heard my dad telling someone how Charlie (he always for some reason called me Char... | |
| Teach me about cartridge 'retipping' I tip only for exceptional service. | |
| Dual subs and or speaker uograde All the talk about how fast some subs are is pure blather. I can outrun almost all of them. | |
| Matching subwoofer The best way to integrate subwoofers into a system is to bus them to a neighborhood with no subwoofers. My subs are less than two years old. They fade right into the room. With the lava lamp on you can barely even see them. |