millercarbon
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| Relative Spending on Turntables and Cartridges I'm just wondering why the convention is to spend only 70% of a budget on a table and only 30% on a cartridge. Conventional wisdom is really nothing more than stuff that’s been repeated enough so it becomes like a reflex. People tend to repeat ... | |
| The secret to a great amplifier... redwoodaudio, one more thing you might want to try. There are people on this site with nothing to contribute other than an endless drive to post over and over again more and more evidence that they have nothing to contribute. Some are downright me... | |
| The secret to a great amplifier... redwoodaudio, since you have a high value approach and appreciate these kinds of improvements, there's a whole world of tweaks, all different kinds, yet producing very similar improvement. Similar in terms of improved detail, dynamic shadings (and... | |
| The secret to a great amplifier... Too bad. You're right, the Orange Fuse is incredible. As to why they don't just stick the fuse in there and blow the competition away (they would) the answer is simple. And unlike the haters this is an actual answer not made up BS. I called up and... | |
| More power for moderate listening levels? LOL!!! I was writing while you were writing. First thing I checked, your speakers are hopelessly inefficient. Harbeth has the hutzpah to say they are easy to drive! Not at 86dB they're not! Doesn't matter the impedance! Now you know why you see al... | |
| More power for moderate listening levels? It doesn't work that way, and we don't need to know anything about your room. Geez Louise! This is because amps and power don't work anything like the way the vast majority thinks they do. Its perfectly possible you could find a lower power amp th... | |
| Relative Spending on Turntables and Cartridges The logic is, it depends on your goals and where you want to be. What you are doing is perfectly fine- obviously, since its working out so well for you. What you won’t know until you try, a lot of money in a much better table and arm pays equally ... | |
| Upgrades that met/exceeded your expectations and those that felt short Happy to say its been several years now since anything has not exceeded expectations, and usually by quite a lot. Tekton Moabs are probably #1, but not by much, the Herron VTPH2A is amazing, and, well just look at my system. Hard to think of anyth... | |
| Am I out of my mind? #obsessed @millercarbonThanks man, appreciate your posts. BTW, I picked up some of those Nobsound springs and sandwiched them between two butcher blocks to try under my turn table. They worked! No more vibrations! Well, far less vibration anyway. I’m no... | |
| Why don't speaker companies reveal the flaws in their designs? Congratulations on the award. The competition must have been fierce. | |
| 1st Post Intro & Ramblings Hate to tell you, but nothing there conflicts with anything I’ve said. So its a complete lack of logic. See, all we said was symmetry for imaging. Which is true. Focal even says "the loudspeakers should be positioned symmetrically". So its like yo... | |
| Pairing of different JL Audio Subwoofers You can add just about any sub. The more subs, the less the need for room EQ. I have five subs, of three different types, and its the highest quality most beautifully integrated bass I ever heard anywhere. Do a search for Distributed Bass Array, r... | |
| 1st Post Intro & Ramblings What? All of them? Can you name even one with instructions that conflict with this? No. You can't. You just thought it would be smart to act like you know something, when you don't. Listen, I know a lot of people still haven't figured this out. ... | |
| Am I out of my mind? #obsessed Make sure the wax is Carnauba Wax (VERY HARD) Yes. The Griot's Garage Best of Show wax is one of the highest carnauba wax contents you can find. That is exactly why I recommended it. | |
| 1st Post Intro & Ramblings Timing will be "aligned" as long as the two speakers are equal distance to the ears. There really is no other alignment. Most of it is a balancing act between direct/reflected, and shadowing function of the head to the other ear. The first he... |