noromance
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| Improving a stone rack I tried a granite slab under my turntable a few years back and it had a considerable negative impact on the sound quality. I tried it in three modes—alone on top of the concrete block pillars (see virtual system), on top of, and below, a 3" slab ... | |
| Garrard 301 - Project Consider using a slate plinth. More detail, speed, and air. Pay attention to the surface you put the turntable on. Wooden tables don’t sound great. Concrete floors are preferable. | |
| Advice and recommendations needed for a turntable rig... Get the best turntable you can afford. If you cheap out to dip your toes in the water as suggested by some of the guys, you'll be disappointed and you won't upgrade. | |
| Copper vs. Silver tonearm wire This goes back in my memory to the pale yellow Van den Hul speaker cables from the 80s which used stranded silver-plated copper. Man, they were etched with a golden sheen. An old wives tale that silver is brighter than copper! | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Belle And Sebastian - Tigermilk | |
| Visit to Mike Lavigne's house Could the subs being behind the main speakers be improving or effecting the increased depth over Mike's? | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Jay Munly - Galvanized Yankee | |
| Why do some amplifiers throw a bigger soundstage than others? Two reasons: 1. It’s on the recording, and the system is reproducing that recording faithfully because it has the necessary qualities to achieve that. 2. It’s not on the recording, and there are resonances occurring in the system that are causin... | |
| Moving into an apartment with wood joist floors - worried about neighbors hearing @deep_333 I hear you on dogs barking. Their owners don’t care about how their pesky dogs disrupt the neighborhood. Frankly, I don't understand the right to make noise. It should be the right to quiet. His lousy dogs barked all day long like crac... | |
| Moving into an apartment with wood joist floors - worried about neighbors hearing Townshend Seismic Podiums? On a 2' paving slab? | |
| What songs do you listen to to test a system's midrange performance? Any female vocals on a 1958-62 mono record. e.g. Ketty Lester - Love Letters https://youtu.be/b00bRYZSRew | |
| Effect of Internet Service Quality on Streaming? ADSL/DSL runs over copper pair phone lines. Ever see the connections in Krone boxes using blades? The diodic interface there alone can’t be good. Have you tried cable or fibre? | |
| Best Sounding Adapter - Making RCA into Banana or Spade? Thanks! If for speakers, bare wire is best. | |
| Lii Audio open baffles vs Forte 1 vs Heresy IV It sounds more coherent (musically) with better definition across the frequency spectrum. | |
| Lii Audio open baffles vs Forte 1 vs Heresy IV Good stuff. I played the music and enjoyed the second speaker in the line-up the most. |