millercarbon
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| The JC Whitney syndrome jchiappinelli I'm not telling anyone how to improve their system. Just suggesting that any improvements added are not necessarily 100% cumulative. We can agree to disagree.BTW, this whole forum exits where strangers make suggestions and voice opi... | |
| Can someone help me decide between an amp and an integrated amp? There is an inherent problem in having separates: money! No component you can name will sound very good just sitting there on its factory supplied footers with its factory supplied power cord and its factory supplied patch cord. That's just a fact... | |
| The sound of speakers is distortion. Oh, you don't need a Unicorn speaker. Any violin, guitar, singer or even yes cowbell will do. That's your gold standard: the whole recording/playback chain recreates the original event.Speakers being the last link in the chain, so many opportuniti... | |
| Besides Aja and zeppelin pressings, what others are demo level recordings? Jennifer Warnes The Well, especially the numbered 45 edition, is awesome. Tubey magic, richly holographic, and with just about the most heart achingly real and present voice you will ever hear. Its got real presence without ever being grainy or et... | |
| Turntable for a Denon DL-103 cartridge You heard wrong. They will all work.Try if at all possible to listen to those tables with your cartridge mounted. Not because of matching to the table. The match between the cartridge and phono stage is more important. But listening to those table... | |
| Why not use a non-contact stylus on a turntable? Sure. I get it. CD looks good on paper, sounds like crap in reality. So let's think of a way to make LP look good on paper, sound like crap in reality. CD won't be so crappy compared to analog, and analog will be all modern and convenient. And cra... | |
| Turntable hum Wow gold star and an apple, Al! When starter caps go bad the motor does make a pretty obvious humming sound, but that only happens on start-up and if bad enough the motor would just make the awful sound without even moving. I've seen this on large... | |
| Do audiophiles hate large subwoofers? Speed doesn’t matter. Integration is a misleading misnomer. There’s more out of date thinking on low bass than anything in audio. And that’s saying something!Speed doesn’t matter. If speed mattered then my Talon Roc would be the King of subs. Why?... | |
| Turntable hum Is everything plugged into the same outlet/circuit? | |
| Looking for phono preamp recommendations I've been running a Koetsu Black Goldline since last fall. First with a 20+ years old ARC PH3-SE. No lack of soundstage, even then, let me tell you! So its certainly not the cartridge.Then in December I got the Herron VTPH-2A phono stage. The Herr... | |
| Importance of power cable for Turntable? Looking at all you're doing there nyev, I hope you're taking the time to audition and compare several candidates for each component?Because, at the level you're spending at pretty much everything sounds surprisingly good. But that only makes it ha... | |
| Importance of impedance matching cartridge with phono stage? From the responses so far, it sounds like I should be okay with this board based on the fact that 1) most MC cartridges should be fine with the 100 Ohm setting so there are lots of options, and 2) I can simply make sure I don’t get a cartridge tha... | |
| Importance of power cable for Turntable? nyev it doesn’t work quite the way you think. Having everything on one circuit almost always turns out to be better, especially with a turntable where the greatest source or risk of noise is hum, which usually comes from different ground potential... | |
| CD players sold in Japan can work in US with no problem? Yes it works, but the life of the CDP will be shortened.The voltage regulators in the DC power supply are working their butts off trying to maintain a constant designed rated voltage. Good Lord. This is so far beyond wrong its backwards!The c... | |
| Why the fascination with subwoofers? 2psyop why add a subwoofer to an existing audio system when they don’t always perform well, are costly, and are difficult to integrate with the many varied speakers offered. Why indeed? I sure never would. That would be crazy. Instead I would ad... |