millercarbon
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| Does a Subwoofer Make Spiking Redundant? Never use spikes. Use springs like Nobsound, or even better Townshend Pods or Bars. Or the very best, Podiums. I’ve compared and Townshend are by far the best. Spikes, the worst. | |
| I'm a Dummy, Tell Me About Turntable Mats They are all different. They all affect the sound, but in rather different ways. In addition to whatever they do in terms of vibration effects they also add thickness and change VTA and so will change the sound that way unless you correct VTA. Bec... | |
| Fuses georgehifi-Sorry George,I can’t take anything you say seriously. You have blown all your credibilityGeorge posted this. So even he gets it. Please go away now. Please.Seriously. Please. Go away. | |
| Fuses I haven't directly compared to be able to say for sure. Tinned copper are what I used based on HHF reviews. Don't quote me, it seems unlikely, but 1uf might not have worked because "maybe" that is enough to shift response. It seems like an insigni... | |
| Fuses That'll work great. The way I think of it, the reason the better caps are better is they are exceptionally smooth and consistent in the way they charge and discharge. This allows them to pass a signal that is both detailed and extremely liquid smo... | |
| Tonearm adjustments on the fly Oh, sorry, there is one thing I did miss that should be fixed. The two things you want in an arm are VTA on the fly and a hard wired integral phono lead. Cartridge output is the faintest in all of audio. The last thing you want is a delicate signa... | |
| Tonearm adjustments on the fly VTA and SRA are different technically, and in audio you will find incredibly tedious and impressively pedantic polemics explaining in excruciating detail why they are not the same. Functionally however when you adjust VTA you adjust SRA, and vice ... | |
| Why do amplifiers sound different? Coming from a electrical engineering background,I’m sorry. Still, many audiophiles have much worse handicaps. (Not really, but trying to stay positive!) I recommend a complete memory wipe, followed by a month studying The Compete Guide to High End... | |
| Audiophile-grade ground rod? Honestly, my first post ought to have been sufficiently sarcastic enough to let the OP know he's on a fool's errand. Do we really need to keep hammering on it? Audiophiles. I guess we do. As you were then. | |
| Vinylistas and Tubers - One and the same? The closest thing to logic is since tubes and vinyl sound so clearly superior it is only logical to use them - IF - your priority is to enjoy the highest sound quality music.If your highest priority is to hear lots of different music, or some part... | |
| What percentage of the time do you listen to records vs. digital sources? I'm playing digital right now. The XLO demagnetizing tracks are on CD. That's about 15 min of digital almost every day. Oh. Wait. Listen to? Listen to? 🤣🤣🤣 I hear it. Wouldn't call it listening. 🤣🤣 | |
| Advise av receiver First thing you need to know on a budget like that, the last thing you can afford to do is make the mistake of buying a lot of speakers and amps. The sound quality you hear will never come from a lot of cheap components. It will very easily come f... | |
| Tonearm adjustments on the fly Every manufacturer making everything, no matter what it is, they constantly choose between performance and other values like convenience and features. You want a lot of features, be prepared to spend big time, and probably never get the performanc... | |
| A little tube magic? More looking add the sense of space, presence, and bloom you can get from tubes. Then run tubes. Sheesh. The things people fret about, it never ceases to amaze | |
| AnologMagik The torque wrench thing made me curious so the other night I tried a few more adjustments. Had done this before and knew loosening was going in the right direction, no way I wanted to go tighter, so tried a little bit looser still. Only turned the... |