millercarbon
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| Silk thread drive, using fabric glue to join ends. Making belts like that was one my early trials way back around 30 years ago. Back then it was a Basis turnable and motor. Tried different threads in place of the Basis belt. Experiments like these gave me the confidence to try the Teres motor, eve... | |
| Prima Lunacy? (SuperTubeClock) As should we all. | |
| Help Match Cables To Gear Please Study and learn: https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367 Notice: really high end interconnects and speaker cables, pretty good power cords, el cheapo wire to the subs. Because I have tried better wire in different places over the years, and thi... | |
| good discussion on power cords Had a party at my place one time. Half a dozen audiophiles, half a dozen Porschephiles, another half a dozen friends from work. One of the audiophiles was Shunyata CEO Caelin Gabriel. Caelin brought along a few of his newest power cords.With eve... | |
| Too good a post to waste What he's saying is he's a lousy listener. What he's saying is the only way he notices any difference is if he's broken a wire. Which he does not consider unusual. So he's also saying spaz, or using really old poorly made crap. Take your pick. | |
| Lumin T2 burn in time? Sorry to say, if it don't sound good right out of the box it might as well go right back into the box. Because it ain't gonna get all that much better. Yeah sure it will change. Duh. It will open up, become more refined. But the fundamental charac... | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? Not only most folks, not even most systems at CES use $6k interconnects! Let alone $12k! I would wager its way less than 10%, maybe even less than 5%. Heck it may even be less than 1%! The typical room at CES I would wager is running interconnects... | |
| Deed any Usher BE-20 owner try the new diamond mid-range driver? There is room for improvement, indeed. | |
| System problem Today, I plugged my monoblocks directly into my DAC/streamer and the same thing so I’ve eliminated my preamp as the culprit.I'd definitely check the tubes and fuses in the EAR 912.?🧐? | |
| Too good a post to waste Psychologists have a term for that: projection. Since you can't hear, or remember, or understand what does what, you project your inadequacy and confusion onto others. Projection. Try not to do that. | |
| Does high end system with dedicated circuits need grounding products I have cryogenically treated and TC coated 4 ga wire bring 240V to a step down, then 120V to my conditioner. So the system is transformer isolated, with its own earth ground connected to a grounding block on the conditioner. https://systems.audiog... | |
| Should people who can't solder, build or test their speakers be considered audiophiles? I think its because at some point beyond one line its officially reclassified rant. | |
| Should people who can't solder, build or test their speakers be considered audiophiles? Should people who can't write be considered posters? | |
| Which is the most important part of a stereo system? Which is the most important part of a stereo system?There isn't one. As long as there is an audiophile around to argue about it nothing else matters. | |
| newbie seeks help with system design Being a newbie probably should explain, according to what I found the cartridge that came on that table had an output of 2.2mV which should be fine with the MM Pro-Ject Phono Box DC phono stage you mentioned. Basically any MM stage should be fine.... |