millercarbon
Responses from millercarbon
| Do caps stay "fully formed" even under minimal load? (SS) Nope. Caps are the ultimate couch potatoes: less exercise, better performance! Tubes are even better. Tubes can just lay around for years, people actually pay more, they are so well rested you can't believe! | |
| Is an unshielded, unbalanced cable useful for anything in hifi? Where? You have much to learn. All these things you're talking about, what you need to understand is as good as they sound when talking about them, in the real world you might as well forget about it. It may take you a very long time to realize this, es... | |
| The Right Stuff Even at 89 he was impressive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS9aQLQDSmU Is that a man? Yeah, you’re damn right it is! https://youtu.be/LQt579381OI?t=307 | |
| What does ‘balance preamp’ mean? Given your many posts I believe you would benefit from the purchase of Robert Harley’s book ’The Complete Guide to High End Audio’. Money well spent. THISSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!^^^^^^^^^^^!!!!!!!!Only don't just buy it- READ IT! | |
| Who am I supporting? Who are you supporting? Lawyers. Accountants. Coders. Maybe even an artist or two. At least, for now. Eventually the lawyers and accountants will figure out how to get the coders to create AI that can make music people want to buy, and cut the art... | |
| Do I need bi amping? Not likely. How exactly would that work, anyway? The class D is in the closet because it doesn't sound as good as the LM. Right? So how can removing even a part of the sound from the superior LM and giving it to the inferior D be an improvement? ... | |
| Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes Shaped me? Never cared for Porters until I tasted Winthrop's Bull's Tooth Porter. Something in it said, "THIS is what they're tying to do!" From then on I was able to appreciate porters, or at least some of them at any rate. In that sense I guess ... | |
| Phono Preamp suggestions $2000 (pre-rabbit hole tire kicking edition) Decware ZP3 https://www.decware.com/newsite/ZP3.htm Please note- depending on cartridge output you may need the optional SUT. If you do that will put you a little over budget. Read the info, search comments, take your time. Might as well. Wait lis... | |
| Questioning Tannoy, Tekton or other possible change. Never heard Tannoy but couldn't be happier with my Moabs. My impression is Tannoy for a more polite sound, Moab for more realistic life and vitality. Totally worth whatever the wait is now. There's a reason the wait is long, and its not because th... | |
| Multi Meter Tweak Uh oh. I just figured it out: Place a multimeter on your DAC or amplifier. Place on. Not connect to. Its mass loading. D’oh! Move it around until you .... wait for it.... balance DAC. | |
| New Marantz Model 30 It uses HDAM: Hyper Dynamic Amplifier Mumbo-jumbo. Tuned by the Marantz Stare Master. https://www.marantz.com/en-gb/shop/amplifier/model30 The fancy brushed face plate is sure to compliment any bar. Would be perfect with the Mag Lev turntable. Who... | |
| What does ‘balance preamp’ mean? Many if not all components have power supply sections with a large massive transformer usually off to one side. Especially true of preamps because designers like to keep these noisy parts away from the sensitive circuits handling the signal. Not s... | |
| What is Floyd Toole saying about extra amplifier power and headroom? Toole is right, headroom is useless. Literally. Headroom is by definition more power than you need. Translation: power you will never use. Translation: useless. You have made the rookie blunder of buying speakers that are hard to drive. Its not t... | |
| Seeking advice what to upgrade That’s an insult not an argument. I don’t always assume the answer is going to be to insult me while ignoring the OP and providing zero useful information. But if I did, boy would I be right a lot. At least when it comes to certain posters. Cong... | |
| Seeking advice what to upgrade There’s two main ways you can do this. One is if you know there’s some kind of problem or major weakness with one of your components, that would be the logical one to replace. Like when you had lamp cord, going to quality wire was a total no-brain... |