newbee
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| The obsession, the trees. The music, the forest. I am undoubtedly one of the people who you have seen advocating finding the correct VTA. Believe it or not, this is not an obsession with me in practice. What my advocacy actually represents is a tweak to all of those unabashed "vinyl rules" advoc... | |
| VTA: am I nutz? Bublitchki, You need to explore creative writing as a way to make a living. ROTFLMAO!!!!!!! | |
| I've lost my bass.... Cellorover, Interestly I think you may have reached the correct conclusion, that he should consider getting new speakers, but for the wrong reason. I suspect the Virgo's are just not capable of energizing the bass in a room as large as the one he ... | |
| VTA: am I nutz? I suggest we give the product a name incorporating the name of the corportation we just formed - We can call it LITP, short for load in the pants. | |
| VTA: am I nutz? Johnnantias, Thanks for the reference to the new(?) Sumiko cartridge - I'm all for anthing that makes this vinyl habit less time intensive. | |
| VTA: am I nutz? But Johnnantias, using the same logic I could make a good case for using speakers with poor resolving abilities because it is such a PITA to get them to sound good - they seem to have a bad habit of letting us hear too clearly the sources, pre-amp... | |
| How come that NOS is better them NS new stock ? Interesting question. There is little doubt that there are sonic differences between different brands of the same type tubes. Many folks like to experiment with the sound of their equipment by changing the tubes until they find the sound they want... | |
| Digital as good or better than YOUR analog? Do you guys have duplicate collections or something? If you don't, what does it matter if one format is better than the other, you have to use the format the music is on. On the few records that I have which have been remastered on cd's I have fou... | |
| VTA: am I nutz? Not nutz at all. This is the only way to really find the correct angle for the thickness of the particular record and to match the angle of the cutter used on the master. But it is a PITA - however IMHO, for those who really want the best that LP'... | |
| I've lost my bass.... Get a sub woofer. Amp type will only change quality of bass - it won't do much for quantity. Room treatment won't do anything for bass. You can play with the distance the speakers are from the wall to enhance the bass, and with the listening chair... | |
| low tech rubber tweaks Geoff, Unless, as Rcreations suggested, you just want to go to the hardward store, which is fun in itself, remember that most everything has a resonance at one hz or another. When you change from one isolation devise to another, for the most part ... | |
| Not a ground loop hum??? Have you looked at your IC's - I've had a hum from time to time from the IC's passing too near a transformer (in my case, the amps). One way to check this out is starting at the amps disconnect and reconnect IC's going back to the source, one at a... | |
| Too many tubed components in the system? Not from my point of view (I have all tubes). If all of your components are warm and mushy I supposed it could be too much, however most tube equipment today is fairly neutral. The benefit tubes bring are not so much tonal benefits as they are a s... | |
| Referrence music.... Both previous posters have excellent comments regarding using records which have the music you like and have instruments playing that you are familar with. A record I have found useful (in the extreme) in evaluating equipment as well as set up iss... | |
| severe limiting factor Sean, The problem which I was addressing was that a poster Jsawhitlock, in his first post, made a recommendation that the listening position be at about 7 ft with the speakers placed 6 ft apart. I have no argument with that recommendation except t... |