mrearl
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| Ortofon OM20 and Audio Technica AT120E But Mostly Ortofon I think that my turntable is pre-clamp. I recognized (which is to say I heard) the value of record weights way back when the first record weights came out -- late seventies I guess. But I never really felt the need to bolt the record down. I do... | |
| To power strip or not What I did, not that anyone cares, is buy a box of good-quality ac duplex outlets like the ones in your walls, some 14 or 12 gauge wire like the wire in your walls, and a good power cord, and build a little frame/enclosure for it all. So the outl... | |
| Audiopile hyperbole, reference, SOTA, ultimate and more... I think that hyperbole is to be enjoyed."I was more broke than The Commandments" | |
| How I tamed digital glare. There was a fella way back in the Eighties who made an inline filter that was meant for that. There was a passive version with a bunch of small inductors and an active version. It pretty much worked. I got a schematic and built a passive for my... | |
| what's a good fm tuner? I and another guy I bumped into spent our lives persuing fancypants tuners only to end up with relatively modest Mitsubishis, for their lively and enjoyable sound.Mine is a riot. The front panel looks like The End Of The World but you open it up ... | |
| Need Device to Keep electronics off when power comes back Hey, this is easy.Just get a relay, one big enough to run your gear and has at least three sets of normally-open contacts. And a pushbutton and some outlets.Power your gear through two sets of contacts and connect the third set across the pushbut... | |
| Excellent article in Stereophile Alls I know is I'm way way happier now that I abandoned technical excellence in favor of stuff I enjoy listening to. | |
| Why discussions generate into personal affronts... It seems that fascinations and speculations and theories and observations drive people nuts. Since observing and theorizing and speculating and being fascinated about things is the way I live, usually when I launch a thread it turns bad in a jiff... | |
| It's National "One Hit Wonder" Day! "Sally Go Round The Roses" is the best record.Otherwise, "Denise" by Randy and the Rainbows. "Driver's Seat" by Sniff and the Tears. "Magnet and Steel" by whatsisname. "Our Day Will Come" by Ruby and the Romantics. | |
| Buying Speakers Based on Specs Remember the old days when the catalog showed "20-watt speakers", and the next better ones were "40-watt speakers", and the best ones were "60-watt speakers"? | |
| phono interconnect -diy - mogami or van den hul The Mogami quad was popular in the early days of digital because it attenuated the high-frequency hash and trash of early digital. But really it is intended for dealing with radical cases of RF noise and not really optimized for audio, because th... | |
| Good Old Chipboard " After a while you gain enough experience you realize you can get a pretty good idea what something will sound like simply by tapping on it. The sound it makes when you hit it is the sound it will impart to whatever you build out of it."That ... | |
| Good Old Chipboard If you were walking around in the 1950s you would have seen it around. You seem to have a chip on your shoulder about chipboard.And....MDF IS cardboard. | |
| Good Old Chipboard "Besides that I would think company's like VPI, Clearaudio and others with R&D departments have done just that." On average, I'm a pretty stupid person. But sometimes people just obey conventions and presumptions without observing all the opt... | |
| Why do YOU love Vinyl/or hate vinyl I wasted a lot of my life pursuing allegedly "accurate" sound instead of enjoyable sound. Which is "accurate" but if a decision has to go one way or the other, "enjoyable" is the right way to go. |