millercarbon
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? First up was a Reference Recording 45 of Mickey Hart "Rafos" one of those odd audiophile deals in plain white with only a little sticker on the cover, with some of those culturally odd mostly instrumental arrangement kind of things where sounds ke... | |
| Not Enjoying My Turntable I sure hope the OP realizes Elizabeth is kidding about the vacuum cleaner. Everyone knows you clean records with a pressure washer. | |
| Step down transformers detrimental to SQ? A web search turns up ONE country on Earth running 100v, Japan. The world being a big place rendered tiny by the internet, where anything and everything can be found (a German man looking for people willing to be killed and eaten had several appli... | |
| Volume Control for second set of speakers Now where's Audiogon's reigning theoretical physicist when you need him? Oh well. Guess we can always use the old search engine...because... as with everything else.... its been asked and answered:https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/27... | |
| Why do some manufacturers reverse preamp polarity in the first place? Much ado about polarity? Well....Music by any polarity would sound as sweet? Nuh-uh. Scratch that. A fool thinks polarity matters, but a wise man knows otherwise. Close, but...There is no polarity either good or bad but thinking makes it so. That... | |
| Klipsch!. The worst speaker company, EVER? People love to hate history, but there are an awful lot of things like this its hard to see how anyone has any chance of ever understanding without understanding the history.So many things we take for granted today simply did not exist back when P... | |
| How much difference will a phono stage upgrade make? bpoletti: Save your money and get a Herron Audio VTPH-2a. No need to upgrade when you have the best. The Herron is the last stop on the upgrade path.Back when I was researching phono stages I came across a lot of comments just like this. Also m... | |
| Tonearms with no anti-skate adjustment Full (if late) disclosure, most of what I wrote above is straight from Michael Fremer. One of his several hour plus talks on turntable setup. Forget which one. Anyone wants to really understand the subject could do worse than to watch them all. Un... | |
| Stroboscopic disk sets wrong speed for turntable? Wow you guys are good. Can you figure out my copy of Kind of Blue? Side 1 seems a little off....https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/miles-davis-kind-of-blue-mono-speed-issues.232772/ | |
| Tonearms with no anti-skate adjustment Not based on what you’ve said so far, no.The one way to be sure is by listening for mistracking. Specifically, mistracking much more often in one channel than another. Occasional mistracking in one channel or the other you can disregard, at least ... | |
| Step down transformers detrimental to SQ? Incidentally, and this is probably nothing, but I am curious to know if this is an older vintage type amp? And where was it made?Again, there's no problem with higher voltage. Its lower that tends to cause problems. And since if you go back to s... | |
| Step down transformers detrimental to SQ? If your overseas dealer told you that then he's as electrically misinformed as, well as pretty much everyone else. You're talking to a guy who has wired a whole house, recently installed a panel, and has a whole system personally custom wired to r... | |
| Step down transformers detrimental to SQ? You won't need a transformer. Not if you're talking about line voltage. Line voltage is nominal, as in uncalibrated, as in it varies. What is called 110 here in the US can turn out to measure lower. (Occasionally even quite a bit lower, in what is... | |
| How much difference will a phono stage upgrade make? Oh yeah, the Herron gets pretty good marks from everyone who owns one! Had mine since late last year. Easily the best component I've ever had. Or ever will, probably. Turns out there's a reason why they hardly ever come up used, and go in a flash ... | |
| Audioques Power cable Dragon vs Hurricane what difference in low frequencies Pretty much anything from Synergistic Research is likely to beat AudioQuest hands down in the area of "deeper sound and stronger bass sound".I had AudioQuest Dragons. That is, until I tried SR. |