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| Spikes versus Rubber on wood floor? Fiddler, I am an experienced builder as well as a licensed architect. I also have a minor in acoustics from MIT, and trust me, you don't begin to know whereof you speak, your limited personal experience notwithstanding. There are architects and ar... | |
| How to set SRA after determining true vertical? Greg - good pictures! I think the high-mag one shows pretty conclusively that the groove undulations slant -- in this case toward the bottom of the picture (from bottom to top of the groove.) | |
| Transparent Speaker cable and interconnects Fiddler, I know, I saw those pics a couple of years ago. More "humiliating" than "illuminating" I'd say!!One can only hope they've gotten their act together since then. Nevertheless, many people who are (financially) in the Purist-V.Dynamics-Silte... | |
| Audio Experience 100w monoblocks anyone? Nick, I haven't decided to take the plunge yet, but I might. If you go first, please let me know!! Thanx,Neil. | |
| Tonearm Cabling Cmo, I've heard good thing about the Incognito rewires, but I'm pretty sure they terminate at the back of the tonearm, and then you need some kind of interconnect to get from there to the preamp. Here's a copy of an email I sent to someone who inq... | |
| Spikes versus Rubber on wood floor? Fiddler, apparently you have a very under-engineered floor which is indeed being "excited" by the sound waves in the air! Is it an old structure? I have cured this problem for clients (I'm an architect) who had intolerably bouncy floors due to und... | |
| Tonearm Cabling Thomas, I understand what you are looking for. The companies I mentioned all make fine (as a hair) internal tonearm wire.My question is: do you want to use the same fine wire all the way to the phono preamp? | |
| Spikes versus Rubber on wood floor? Fiddler, if this is what's happening in your case:"All coupling does to many suspended floors is excite the floor which creates a delay in the sound traveling in the floor and it muddies the bass badly."Then it's because the wood floor is flexing ... | |
| How to set SRA after determining true vertical? Greg, maybe you (or Doug or I) can find some microscopic groove photos that will show this rake or slant in the groove undulations clearly. I know Last used to show such photos with their products. I'll see what I can find.Neil. | |
| Tonearm Cabling Then I'd go with a fine silver cabling from Cardas, Nordost, Silver Cable (probably the best silver cable) or van den Hul. But, just so you know, you're asking for hum problems unless you can figure out a way to shield it from the base of the tone... | |
| Suggestions for fully shielded power cord... Audphile1, it wouldn't cost anything but a little of your time (and forgive me for that if you're a $400/hr. attorney!) for you to call or email the makers of all the cables you compared to get the actual specs, particularly shielding topology (co... | |
| Tonearm Cabling Are you talking about a single run of wire from the cartridge to the preamp? | |
| Is anyone willing to entertain the idea I know all the things that I could/should listen for and how to identify them, but the one test that never fails me is: do I hear things in well-known source material that I never heard before? | |
| Spikes versus Rubber on wood floor? Newbee, you raise an interesting point which I think is long overdue for discussion:There are absolutely no vibrations or "resonances" to be DRAINED from a loudspeaker. And if there are, then its cabinet/enclosure (or stand) is poorly designed.The... | |
| Who is a big high end cable manufacturer Washline, I wish more people would just take a minute to describe their experiences when they've discovered the "real deal." Other people have had the same kind of epiphany (not just a pleasant improvement) with "top" or "near top" of the line pro... |