millercarbon
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| Preventive maintenance or wait till it breaks? I clean everything, especially contacts, at least once a year. I replace tubes when it seems like they need it. Anything more than that, well you know the saying "if it ain't broke..."? There's reasons that advice has such staying power. | |
| Acoustic treatment Anything the right size with any damping material can be a bass trap. A walk-in closet is a bass trap. Robert Harley's The Complete Guide to High End Audio has a whole section on the design of bass traps, a lot of which is probably also available ... | |
| Music lover or audiophile? music lover or audiophile, that is the questionIn grade school they brought in a concert violinist to play for our class. Still clearly remember him saying close your eye and listen, then he would play to sound like one, then two, then a whole bun... | |
| Trouble joining "Insider"? Where's the benefit? The Audio Bluebook would seem to be the only benefit. For Audiogon, I mean. Considering the more people know about prices the more likely they are to list at realistic prices which means more sales and more revenue for Audiogo... | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? There's three different aspects to this question: design, implementation, and results. From a design point of view there may be nothing better since the Distributed Node Amplifier. I don't know, it just seems that way. In terms of how the exact de... | |
| How do you know when tubes are done? You sneak. Is the Yee a one-off custom or regular product? Either way kinda cool. | |
| Furutech fuse The idea with long burn-in is if you can get the poor sap to put up with your crap component for 100 hours by then he's gone through so much crap for so long cognitive dissonance (I'm not stupid, I'm not wasting my time, I'm not THAT guy!) kicks i... | |
| How do you know when tubes are done? Oh, how do you know? No two are quite the same. One can suddenly burn out in a blaze of glory. Or die when you're not looking. If they don't do that, old worn tubes tend to lose dynamics and slam and sparkle. But it can be so slow and gradual its ... | |
| How do you know when tubes are done? That's about right for the power amp tubes to be showing their age. I would go to TubeStore.com and select a set. Read the descriptions, they seem quite accurate, but bear in mind there is just not much difference even from the very best to the ve... | |
| Sly Stone Fresh Promo LP I've long been under the impression that true promo records are cutouts. Every one I have ever seen had a notch cut near a corner or sometimes a corner cut off. Anyone can slap a sticker on but if its cut out its legit.This goes back to the old da... | |
| JBL 100 Classic or Klipsch Heresy III? lg1been a little disappointed at how much the volume control needs to be turned before they’ll "rock the house". I’m approaching straight up 12:00 on the volume on the PL and still wanting for a bit more but have backed it down to 9-10ish again as... | |
| My experience adding subwoofers to 2 channel vinny I think you figured it out- when it sounds like just the mains, that's what you want. Some recordings have great low bass but a lot have very little or none. This makes it real easy to set the subs too high and not realize it until you get t... | |
| Best affordable Surge protector home stereo and my TV? You don't need a surge protector. What you need- what is missing from your list that will make a big improvement- well it depends on what you have. If your receiver has a detachable power cord then a better one will make a big difference. If not t... | |
| Furutech fuse So you found that you can spend $40 for something that sounds worse than the $1 factory fuse. Yet you think $150 for a Blue Quantum Fuse that makes a bigger improvement than a lot of $500 power cords is a ripoff.Oh wait. You don't know that. Becau... | |
| A DIY Swarm-based Distributed Bass Array for SOTA Bass Alright. But I only wear the Tommy Bahama silk lab coat with subtle palm tree pattern. Goes with the whole Pina colada listening theme. Just so you know. Which reminds me, get that pineapple juice chillin'. |