nsgarch
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| How to set SRA after determining true vertical? SRA is very easy to match to the cutter head rake angle. True, there is/was no absolute standard, but the range of variation is very small, and so even if you don't have a tonearm with on-the-fly adjustable arm height, you can usually find a happy... | |
| Wadia Durability Experience Questions Both my Wadia units, the 64.4 DAC and the WT2000 transport are over 15 years old. Never had a problem. The transport was upgraded about 13 years ago and received the heavy duty Teac mechanism (S mod) similar to the VDRS used by Esoteric in their c... | |
| Suggestions for fully shielded power cord... Audphile1, your post is unclear. Unshielded Audience versus shielded what?? You may be comparing apples and oranges in terms of the other properties of the cord(s) such as gauge, conductor material, length, etc.Shielding, if it is a floating shiel... | |
| Run cable through metal stand? Chris, for the record, I wasn't endorsing the use of cable lifters. I too think they're hype. I just mentioned them for the sake of completeness. If a speaker cable is properly designed, issues of inductance should have been solved internally. The... | |
| Spikes versus Rubber on wood floor? Exactly! | |
| CD-R burnout So don't store them next to the furnace or in your oven!I have discs, both music and data, I burned as long ago as 1998, and they're as good as new. | |
| Spikes versus Rubber on wood floor? Gammajo, here's the deal on speaker placement over joists:Assuming the joists are running the short way across the room (and that you have your speakers facing the long way) take care to place the front and rear spikes of the speaker(s) as close t... | |
| Spikes versus Rubber on wood floor? Speakers to perform their best MUST NOT MOVE AT ALL (meaning the tops should not wave around, even a silly millimeter!). So rubber is OUT! Spikes are best, but if you are on a wood floor, you have to be cunning about where you place the speakers r... | |
| Suggestions for fully shielded power cord... OK, well you raised a couple of things.Lets talk about the CDP. Any digital device (CDT, CDP, DAC, DVD player, computer, etc) should use a shielded cable because the power cable can act as an antenna that will broadcast digital RFI ("hash") into t... | |
| Suggestions for fully shielded power cord... What exactly do you mean by "fully" shielded? | |
| Silent Running VR under tube vs solid-state amp Fmpnd -- everything I treated resulted in an improvement. I just happened to start with the sources first and got to the amp last. By the time I did get to the amp, it seemed to me that I'd already heard the most change(s) for the better. But I su... | |
| Silent Running VR under tube vs solid-state amp I agree with your starting with the source stuff. If you wan to put something under your amp (and its already on a solid amp stand, rack shelf or whatever) use the heavy capacity Vibrapods. Tried and true. | |
| Run cable through metal stand? Actually running the cable in a metal raceway (that's what they're called) can provide additional shielding from RFI/EMI.The problem is that if the stand is grounded, i.e. if it has spikes that go into a concrete slab-on-grade floor, (not a wood f... | |
| goldmund amp You will probably have to send it to Goldmund, but I think they can repair it here in the USA. Speak with Ty at (phone) 818/774-1031 or email him at ty@goldmundusa.com | |
| Should I purchase an expensive phono preamp EJ, yes, they all have very low capacitance specs. And it's not critical for the phono preamp to receiver connection.The critical part for MM carts. is from the tonearm to phono preamp connection. The Goldring 1000 series specified capacitance is ... |