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| What a difference a setting makes. Cartridge loading has that effect. "Loading down" to 100ohms is very low impedance and gives a nice round warm full bodied sound but can go to far and be fat and congested. Increasing to 200 opened it up by in effect asking for less current from t... | |
| Harman Kardon HK990 Question I just looked up kaizen. Gold star. You nailed it. | |
| Harman Kardon HK990 Question kota1, thanks and that is a good question. If I knew back then... Well I wouldn't have wasted a year on HT, wouldn't have given away almost all my records, wouldn't have wasted even more years on CD. Would have run a dedicated line to the front of... | |
| Harman Kardon HK990 Question Didn't take it that way. It is just this seems to be a rather unusual path I am on. I guess I could have just said yes and been done with it. But that kind of leads people to all kinds of natural yet false assumptions. Although when I look aroun... | |
| Harman Kardon HK990 Question kota1, thanks. If you like the way it was then, wait till you see the way it is now! | |
| To couple, or not to couple, that is the question Damping is using a material or device to take the energy out of vibration by transferring it to heat. The shock absorber on a car forces oil or gas through small passages. That takes energy, which becomes heat, in the process damping suspension mo... | |
| Harman Kardon HK990 Question I must say, feedback so far has been fantastic. Thanks! | |
| Which wire for internal recabling my speakers? Thanks, almost missed that. Grunter, look through the pics, rubber bands are a good cheap isolation solution. They do however not last very long. Over time they stretch and break. You have the right idea, just be a lot better with springs. Nobsou... | |
| Am I Getting Soft Here? Sounds to me like you’re doing it right. If you’re not loving what you’re doing, why bother? But, I know where this comes from. Not sure it is really anything to do with audio or audiophiles either. Having dinner with a friend one time, first ti... | |
| Harman Kardon HK990 Question Honestly, that’s a good question. Townshend doesn’t really have dealers. At one point they called me their US distributor, but that’s not right either they never have had a distributor they ship direct. But Max was a huge fan of my writing, we ta... | |
| Harman Kardon HK990 Question It was everything I said it was. Every night after about 90 minutes something would happen and it would just be magical. Pretty good until then too. And for years I have been a huge proponent of integrated amps. But there came a chance to try a re... | |
| Perfect Path "Solutions" (PPS) eMat Do a search for "holostages". | |
| Springs under turntable After trying a tremendous number of things I had settled on BDR and was using Shelf, Round Things and Cones under everything. This went on for a good 30 years. Until around 2 years ago when I was persuaded to try spring isolation. Ordinary sprin... | |
| Power Cables and Wall Sockets I was introduced to the benefits of power cords in the early 90’s, by my good friend and audio mentor Stewart Marcantoni. Caelin Gabriel located Shunyata here to be close to Stewart who lived at the time in Bremerton. Caelin brought some of his ea... | |
| Ohio - Over the Rhine It really is a golden age in terms of components. The best solid state, tube, analog, and digital continue to converge ever closer to believeability. But this has been the trend for a very long time. What makes this a golden age is a combination o... |