newbee
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| Quad vs. Martin Logan? Most of what I could add to the original question has been responded to by others, however no one, that I noted at least, has touched on one of the differences between the Quads and some of the others. Quads act much more like point source speaker... | |
| What stole your attention from HiFi? A 30 ft Owens day cruiser. Beautiful old mahogany wood boat. Restored it from top to bottom. Great adventure. So glad when I finally sold it! I was so tired of driving to the marina a couple of times a month in the winter to check it out, clean it... | |
| Warm interconnects recommendation Cardas Twinlinks 300B. Not bright, edgy, or expensive. And, IMHO, its good enuf to be a benchmack should you decide to upgrade cabling at a later date. | |
| Bellari VP129 vs. PrimaLuna Internal phono-stage You might be missing a couple of things if you are going to be using an MM cartridge. The most important thing might be that an outboard phono amp adds another set of IC's as well as the attendant problems in avoiding hum from grounding and cable ... | |
| Jolida JD100 on the way Nickway, All tubes have an individual sound. How you describe that sound depends much on the associated equipment and how you interpert the tone and other issues such as clarity. For example, I've been listing to tubes for over 20 years. What I co... | |
| How do you deal with vibration? Eldartford, Re your testing protocol, do you think that generating a 125hz signal is sufficient or would it be more revealing if you were to do a frequency sweep? I've never tried what you are doing, so I haven't got a clue.Pbb, re your comments o... | |
| Warm Tubes Most tube equipment benefits from being turned off when not in use (saves tube wear and other component deterioration due to excessive heat such as can be generated in tube amps) and a warmup period before serious listening. I've found with my stu... | |
| Loose Veneer, best Fix? Try some Elmers wood glue - make sure you apply lots of pressure until it cures. If you've got 'em large clamps work well. Cleans up very easily when wet, wipe off the excess after you clamp them, and before it drys. Works for me. | |
| How do you deal with vibration? rsbeck, There is a difference between sharing experiences when the shared experiences are differing, and saying (or implying) that folks who don't agree with your position are deaf, dumb or blind. The implication of Pbb's last sentence was that an... | |
| Speaker hook up question. Could be. I have usually found the 8ohm taps to be best for most of my speakers, even some 4 ohm ones where the amount of power needed to drive the bass wasn't an issue. My 6 ohm speakers, which have a min impedence of 5 ohms sound much better on ... | |
| How do you deal with vibration? Stehno, Just for fun, my answer to your penultimate sentence is floor borne and airborne. Vibrations produced within a component have always done their damage, and except for allowing vibrations at their resonsonce frequencies to pass out to an ab... | |
| How do you deal with vibration? Nickway, If you've done the sandbox thing well the sand should be absorbing, and not passing, any vibrations in any direction. But, if I were to do something like that, I would probably use some medium soft rubber product and spread it over a broa... | |
| How do you deal with vibration? Nickway, FWIW, I have achieved the best results in DIY isolation products for components and turntables, much the same way as you have, by using a sandwich of materiels, usually a soft wood and a medium density foam product. What I use depends on ... | |
| How do you deal with vibration? Pbb, What I'm actually saying is that I feel that there is no need to debase someone else's beliefs. Other than some ego satisfaction you might gain, it serves no purpose.Personally, I would feel just as comfortible saying "based on my experience ... | |
| How do you deal with vibration? Pbb, Why do you care about what others worry about. Seems like it would be more fun for you just to listen to more music? :-) |