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| can someone answer me this..... kennsawjet: unless millercarbon has made his own speaker cables out of 14 or 12 gauge solid copper or solid silver wire, twisted - he has no idea how good it can sound. Got to love that, "twisted". In my best Walter White I say, "You got me!"As... | |
| Any turntable / tonearm setup experts near Chattanooga / Knoxville Tennessee Michael Fremer has multiple YouTube videos where he goes step by step in real time explaining why and showing how you do every single thing. Everything is out in the open, nothing prepared, and he covers the same things in all of them but because ... | |
| Top Ten "Definitions of an Audiophile" Audiophile: one who professes to love the sound of music, yet never is able to relax and enjoy it due to constantly being obsessively distracted by innumerable sonic details that never are quite right, or even if they are then the meter says they ... | |
| Old interconnects and digital cables that have stood the test of time pmboyd: Indeed, my digital cable is a Resolution Reference Active! Best thing ever, if you have stock Active Shielding, is the Michael Spallone MPC mod. You can DIY if you’re good with soldering. Or send them off to Michael. Do a search, he’s sti... | |
| Tube life Running several tube amps for close to 30 years now I have sometimes replaced tubes early (few hundred hours) more often replaced them after a few years (thousand hours plus) sometimes even run till they died. Almost always it seemed if they degra... | |
| What I’ve learned, so far We all have to work under some sort of budgetary constraint. What I learned long ago is to look for the out-performers. The Herron phono stage that in spite of its modest cost performs right up there with the best the world has to offer. The Syner... | |
| Old interconnects and digital cables that have stood the test of time Yes. This makes sense- if SR is for Synergistic Research. A lot of Ted's new stuff is so far ahead of everything else that its still better than most of what there is even 15 and 20 years later. The SR Master Coupler has been a power cord standard... | |
| The process of elimination So far you have narrowed it down to the cartridge or the wire. Next swap R and L on the cart pins. Then you will know for sure if its the cartridge, or the wire. If its the wire, most likely its not really the wire itself but the connections at ei... | |
| What do you consider "loud" for your system? What do you mean, "loud"? The same volume that is never loud enough when playing Nilsson Jump Into The Fire is way too loud when playing Jennifer Warnes Song of Bernadette. Loud is like the garishly made up lady Doug MacLeod talks about who asks h... | |
| Is integrated the future for 2 channel audiophiles? Integrateds the future? Well my first was 1973. Tried separates, but its just impossible to do as well without spending a lot more. Sorry. Just a fact. So they have been the future for 50 years, at least. You should be more clever and say integrat... | |
| Building shielded IC's. Should both shield ends be terminated at the RCA, or only one? Actually since no DIY cables are worth the time it takes to make them (let alone the cost of materials) the best solution would be to buy the best already made cables you can find. | |
| Fedex issues I was sitting at home expecting delivery of some very expensive Synergistic Research Euphoria interconnects, which usually FedEx would deliver afternoon or evening, so was surprised to see email saying they had been delivered. Especially since I w... | |
| Interconnect Directionality Listen one way. Reverse and listen the other way. Leave it the way it sounds the best. Anything else? | |
| To what level do phono cartridges age? The stylus can wear from use. The cantilever, pole piece, magnet, coil, body and terminals are pretty much forever. That leaves the part the cantilever passes through and pivots around, the elastomer bearing. This is the part that can wear or hard... | |
| Turntable feedback Yes its possible no matter what the table is on the Planar 3 itself can still vibrate if you get the energy in the air high enough. Especially if you're using it with a dust cover. If you are that would be the first thing to go.Granite is great fo... |