millercarbon
Responses from millercarbon
| A well-produced and recorded classical guitar LP? Okay, wait- Mark Levinson?I have this one record, bought for its supposed audiophile quality, which every time I would play it would bug the hell out of me. Because it seemed at first very near technically perfect yet sounded awful it was very har... | |
| Best Way to Integrate Subwoofers? Well first of all you use four subs, and it hardly matters where they go just that they're not all in the same place.But anyway regardless of how many or where, the question is how to get the balance right. Its pretty simple. So here's what you do... | |
| Ask the local curmudgeon (me) anything related to tech or liquor. :) Well the Waring Professional comes with little rubber feet. Which as michaelgreene has pointed out many times excessive damping results in mooshy margaritas. When properly tuned the pina colada opens up and you can see the coconut and pineapple sp... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? Actually since the arm pivots then the tilt angle would have to be constantly adjusted during play. Since the tilt angle would need to be roughly perpendicular to the cartridge, and since no cartridge alignments result in it being perfectly tangen... | |
| Reel to reel orpheus10I don’t know what is more shocking about that tape you recommended. That it costs twice as much for one as I used to pay for a box of 10, or that the reels are 10.5 feet! That is one BIG tape deck! No wonder dweller complains about space!... | |
| Direct 2 Disc Oops yeah I just assumed since Sheffield made lots of D2D their website would have them but no. Go figure. Oh well, search em out, DuckDuckGo makes it trivially easy to find. The Goolag, not so much.Its true what you said, D2D is no guarantee of S... | |
| Reel to reel Yeah I was dumb to sell mine but the heads and pinch roller were worn and this was before the internet when it was hard to find stuff like this, shops were chock full of gear being jettisoned by people who bought into the digital hype, if someone ... | |
| Direct 2 Disc Doug MacLeod is always good and D2D is characteristically good at capturing dynamics and detail in a way even the best tape transfers find it hard to match. But honestly, if what you're into is unbelievable quality then go check out Better Records... | |
| Reel to reel Of course you can buy new blank tape. Of course it might be hard what with Google finagling their filters but if you use one of the less manipulated search engines like DuckDuckGo it should be a snap to find.I had a 10.5" open reel deck for years ... | |
| Separates Newbie?? Since you'll be using it as a pre-amp then sustained high power is a non-issue. Pre-amps don't really amplify. Line voltage comes in, line voltage goes out. Mostly in fact what they do is attenuate.When it comes to power amps its more a question o... | |
| Reasonable but not outragious interconnects Talk about snake oil!Seriously, the one bit of good advice is to audition first before you buy, or never buy what you can't return.To all the rest I say- bunk!System dependent? Not that I have ever seen! And no, not saying the same cable will soun... | |
| Blind Testing is Dead - Long live My Wallet testing. Components should have stickers like wine: 92 points- rich, fully developed acoustic space, strong wood notes but not too brassy, etc. Until the high-end manufacturers wake up and start using stickers the only thing we can do is trust buyers to ca... | |
| Ask the local curmudgeon (me) anything related to tech or liquor. :) Making pina coladas last night and maybe it was the spiced rum but it sure seemed they came out better running the Waring Professional blender with the Synergistic Research Master Coupler. Why do they even bother selling blenders with stock factor... | |
| Dual vs single sub Yes four subs is the way to go. Which is why I am going that way. Frustratingly close to being done and able to offer first hand opinion! But I know it works. Or I wouldn't be doing it. | |
| Entry level turntable for my son A 16 year old who just wants to spin some vinyl? As Twain would say the rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.I'm with the chakster. A kid who just wants to spin some vinyl, get him a bullet-proof rig. The way I look at it, anyone playi... |