millercarbon
Responses from millercarbon
| Need help in trying to trace cause of distortion This is a room acoustics issue, not a component problem. | |
| Useful Information Click on the name, select message user. Thanks. | |
| Anyone else grateful that they got hooked on this crazy addiction Who would have thought that moving speakers ¼” would make that big of difference?Please see the very last photo in the system images. Then read the description. https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367 Pictured is just one of three corners on eac... | |
| Speaker and amp selector box? Would like to not compromise quality and a search has shown some cheap wire insert boxes"Would like to not compromise quality....... cheap wire insert boxes."Is that really what you meant to write? | |
| Why is There Not More Consolidation in Audio? When I look at most product lines, there were once many companies that produced the items, but over time some became financially insolvent and closed, or they were bought up by better-positioned competitors. This was true with beer. This was tru... | |
| Moving tube equipment Pull the tubes. Move the amp. Clean the pins and sockets. Reinstall. Clean all connections- speaker binding posts, RCAs. Look at it as the excuse to do something that probably needed doing anyway. | |
| Preamp and Amp how much influence each contributes? A lot of people Claim preamp has more influence on sound than amp. Yes and these people are what we call, "wrong". No one component is any more or less important than any other. This extends beyond complete discrete components all the way down to ... | |
| Happy Scale I totally agree. It is the difference between a "stereo" and a "Magic Music Machine."FrankBecause we who have the FC tweaks know just how awesome they are. First, the system is elevated to a level never before thought possible. Then even more amaz... | |
| Axe to grind know it alls I KNEW it! | |
| Happy Scale We are so happy it sometimes has us laughing out loud. Seriously. People wish, dream, fantasize, and pretend, and for all that still can't get here. Not in their wildest fantasy. Not in their wettest audiophile wet dream.Happy? Last night we put o... | |
| why the limited number of Stereophile recommended components in the A and B class ? I say if you know then what do you care what anyone else thinks? | |
| Visiting audio stores? Perhaps our most significant conclusion is that mitigation is unlikely to be feasible without emergency surge capacity limits of the UK and US healthcare systems being exceeded many times over. In the most effective mitigation strategy e... | |
| Visiting audio stores? One day back in the late 70’s one of my astronomy club pals said hey did you hear? Carl Sagan giving a talk at the UW! When? Tonight! So we all piled in the car and drove from Puyallup to Seattle, making it in just before the monster hall complete... | |
| Question re: Phono stage gain and possible new integrated Fascinating. These things have nothing to do with each other. Out of all the details provided the one that might actually matter is missing. But nevermind. It would take too long to explain. Which for me to say that wow, long! If you learn one thi... | |
| Visiting audio stores? The danger is very real, and serious. The reason we just saw a comprehensive multi-trillion dollar stimulus package is this paper by epidemiologist Dr Neil Ferguson and published today by the Imperial College of London showing that merely acting t... |