millercarbon
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| Git watcha want You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes you find, you get what you need.Lousy performance. Mick is way past his prime. Still, Trump theme song. Never gets old. | |
| Vibration Source? If I put the same CD in my stock car system, it comes across as low level noise, not vibrations.This is what gets me. So there’s some sound that is definitely there on the CD, you can hear it in the car, but it sounds different at home.This I beli... | |
| Break in time that extends to months or maybe even years!! heaudio123 stepping in it big time:Does anyone have the current price per acre on swamp land in Florida in this current pandemic?Why? Are you a real estate agent? Because you sure don’t seem to be an audiophile. CES stands for Consumer Electronics... | |
| Tweaks - An Honest Discussion "Apparently one of the great things about being a tweak guru is being able to extract thousands of dollars of better performance from a piece of gear that the designer/manufacturer should have included for mere pennies of incremental cost. That ma... | |
| Tweaks - An Honest Discussion Its been a while, but I still recall how it was back when I was as smug in my ignorance as tuberist and tvad. One of the first tweaks I tried that began to change my mind was a phone book under the CDP. Which is a pretty poor tweak and barely audi... | |
| Tweaks - An Honest Discussion @millercarbon are these the BDR cones you used?https://www.audioasylumtrader.com/ca/listing/Accessory/Black-Diamond/-quot-stuff-quot/-see-pics/2093...Worth the asking price?Yes and that is a deal!The three Cones alone will set you back $60 at Musi... | |
| Stillpoints Aperture or Synergistic UEF panels Which one? I have several sets of HFTs on the walls, and complete speaker kits, plus ECT and PHT. All very effective. I tend to experiment and try different things, essentially tweaking my tweaks, and was impressed to find all Ted's placement recommendations... | |
| Break in time that extends to months or maybe even years!! These are the kinds of things people think up when they have yet to develop any real listening skills. Its like in the beginning its real common to use one special recording and play it over and over again. To sit in the same spot, obsess over mat... | |
| best power conditioners under 4k Right. But not for the reasons you think. You're still getting noise from your appliances, and everything else for that matter. All that happened was you improved that one little thing. You can do the same for every inch of wire both before and af... | |
| Tweaks - An Honest Discussion My experience is laid down in writing for everyone to see right here on my systems page: https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367Specifically: "everything matters. Everything either contributes or detracts, and no one single component is any more... | |
| How to remove ground pin on power cable I can think of 101 ways by which a chassis can become live. I can only think of two: Frankenstein. Frank N Furter. 99 still to go. You got me. | |
| Older And Wiser or just Tighter and Deafer? jdmccall56: I know my hearing acuity is not as good as it used to be, but my love of music and good sound is not diminished.Seriously. No ones hearing acuity is as good as it used to be. Its pretty much all down hill from childhood on. Vision too.... | |
| Hsu CCB-8...What Have I Done? Great. So now 4 Hsu subs and you are set! | |
| NAD 2200 Power Envelope You cannot make up with power what was never there in the first place with quality. In the words of the great Robert Harley, If the first watt isn't any good why would you want 200 more of them?But then I have never understood why anyone sees any ... | |
| A Soundsmith Re-tip Believer Not to go off track from this post, but this relatively recent article adds to the discussion of the cantilever/mass and what Peter (Retipper) has discussed about a benefit of his moving iron (MI) cartridges - "Vibration analysis of stylus instrum... |