mulveling
Responses from mulveling
| Would I be wasting my money to get a turntable? Yes, back to the original question - "is vinyl worth it"? I listen to a lot of rock / metal / pop / new wave from 1970s through 1980s, and for this material the sound quality on vintage vinyl is often far more enjoyable compared to what’s availab... | |
| Would I be wasting my money to get a turntable? In class D amplifier "Voltage" is converted to "Duty Cycle", both analog - meaning there is no discrete steps (unlimited resolution). Duty cycle is back-converted to (amplified) voltage by filtering. Streaming and CDs both have limited resolution... | |
| Would I be wasting my money to get a turntable? I think it’s not so black-and-white whether class D is or is "not" digital. Sure if you’re getting into a semantics war, it doesn’t meet the criteria of digital quantization and conversion. But some of the elements / patterns are certainly there, ... | |
| Would I be wasting my money to get a turntable? Digitizing itself isn’t going to kill the vinyl sound; I’ve had quite good results with Meridian 808i DAC / preamp units that digitize all analog inputs input and apply DAC / filtering on output - even with very high end vinyl gear. It can be supr... | |
| Why do records made from digital sources sound good? Whenever folks reference the colorations of analog / vinyl, there is usually a connotation of superiority to digital / solid state AND to the listeners who prefer their sound "clean, untained". I readily admit the colorations of viny playback gea... | |
| Rumbly feedback Yes, the separate arm pod is not a variable I’ve dealt with before. That itself might well be the culprit here. Hopefully so, becasue if not, good luck - the hum / rumble types of feedback were the most obnoxious of all gremlins I’ve dealt with. M... | |
| Tweaking Your Speaker Placement Man I HATED those IsoAcoustics - made it impossible to slightly adjust speakers lol. Herbie's Gliders are great for sliding speakers in a very controlled, precise fashion. However, I'm not one of those who believes things need to be precise down t... | |
| Rumbly feedback @mulveling I think the problem is more the last thing you mention, where the woofers are sort of flapping in a pattern and it’s audible. What do you mean by rack bracing? If you have your turntable atop a tower-style rack (like many of us), fre... | |
| Right channel phono stage tube goes noisy @earthtones I empathize with your predicament - it’s never fun to be in that "what tf is actually wrong" corner of this hobby. GOOD CALL by you & Andy on the Mastushita. I may have undersold how much I like & trust these tubes when I nee... | |
| Why do records made from digital sources sound good? I came to the conclusion that it simply comes down to: The mastering quality. A personal preference for the additive distortion components of various phono cartridges, step-up devices, and phono stages. There’s nothing magic about vinyl itse... | |
| Rumbly feedback I had amazing problems in my small-room vinyl rig (springy floor). Rumble-type feedback (audible bass frequencies) was specific to VPI tables with VPI tonerams. The 3D material arms were MUCH worse than the metal arms. This was the case for the gi... | |
| Package Has Disappeared in USPS System This shipping journey seems squirrley, and both the vendor and USPS are suspect at this point. As a seller I'd never be like "oh yeah, that's fine" at this point. If I were you I'd go ahead and name them right now - nothing ever gets better if we ... | |
| Location of compoments. How can a rack on the side not mess with first reflections ? Because you don’t plop it onto a 1st reflection point lol. Ideally it should be at around the same depth into the room as your seating position, or even further back. If you have a t... | |
| Location of compoments. @mulveling , do you go with long speaker wires or long interconnects? I've done both ways - most of the time I've used 5m XLR (preamp to amp) with normal ~ 6ft SC's, but recently reconfigured it to shorter XLR's with 16ft long SC's. And that wo... | |
| Tweeters with or without fluid? You don’t see "ferrofluid cooled tweeter" advertised much anymore, except in cheaper speakers. Being a big Tannoy fan - this topic is intresting to explore in the 2000s era Tannoy lineup, where they used ferrofluid tweeters in the "tulip" DC drive... |