oldhvymec
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| Power Cord Shielding If the amps are MB that will help, ay?Routing is a very inexpensive way to reduce noise. Shielding is the number one way to dummy down sound. I like weaves for noise reduction and as little shielding as I can get away with.Even TT RCAs that I use ... | |
| Cost Effective System Improvement? 50% of your sound is the room, room treatment and speaker placement..Figuring out how to do it, spent the 37.70 like tvad said..Best dollar spent for a sound return. :-)Vibration control and decoupling is # 1 for bass management and cleaning up ba... | |
| Subwoofers going into standby with low volume listening (New Integrated Amplifier). It could be the cable, or just to weak of a signal to keep the circuit excited.I've had a couple of RCA through the years that took a dump and that is exactly how they acted. They would not tickle the Sub plate in standby and had a VERY low out pu... | |
| Audiophile-grade ground rod? The ground rod is for over voltage from anywhere other than your home.Lightning, transformers, surges, but your home? You don't need it to complete the circuit, but you need it to have self protection, quicker protection, safer protection. Unless ... | |
| Member Make Zero Sense Don't forget the neighbor visiting and getting suspended for a few hours while HE rested.. John Belushi, could have learned a trick or two.Hambugie, Hambugie, Coke no Pepsi (or the other way around been a while)Buy it tubebuffer, we'll support the... | |
| Does a Subwoofer Make Spiking Redundant? Always decouple, everything. You cannot be heavy enough or secure enough. The problem is timing. The floor, weather wood concrete or whatever folks use can’t isolate vibration unless it’s thick rubber, THICK rubber like the Kursk 3" thick.... Most... | |
| Fuses I added the Jupiter bypass as an experiment to see if the more expensive caps make a difference, and they do. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>&... | |
| speaker cable connection Copper to the red, silver to the black. With that cable. Either way as long as it's all the same way. BUT for ease copper / RED, silver / black. I'd use SOOW or SJOOW before that though.. 99.999 copper #18-8, pick your size.. US materials.. I use ... | |
| Fuses VTL and the old Marantz both use (frequency collection (bypass)) caps, I’ve seen more than one older Mac with FC caps too. .01 usually. Doesn’t change anything but ADDs a twinkle if you add one or two in parallel.A really good PIO with a FC cap th... | |
| A little tube magic? mwh777, if you go the other way you might have better result. Bypass through the tube preamp vs through the SS. I just had to work out the bass management system for both systems without plugging and unplugging. I used a C2500, MX150, Rogers PA-1 ... | |
| Execution matters https://www.space-tech-lab.com/Al @ Space Tech LabAndDanny @ GR. Both are pretty custom and easy to ask questions of or about their product.. Quick honest answers...Regards | |
| A little tube magic? That C46 and a good valve power amp will sound wonderful. I like Cary or Mac both quit different. I'm just amazed every time I fire up my V12r Cary or a tricked out MC240 that I have both are very special. There are plenty of different amps to cho... | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope Gold is # 3 but the melting point is very low, plating with a lower melting point will decrease the wires melting point. That is figured into the new alloys being used as fuse wire, they also dissipate heat a lot quicker so HEAT doesn't influence ... | |
| Single driver vs traditional 3 way loudspeakers I have to add that in case of forward-firing super tweeter placement should be aligned with the speakers. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>&g... | |
| How much does power amplifier really matter comparing to other hi-fi components? 50% gear/cables, 50% room treatment and speaker/listening position placement.That is not COST, it is the importance and true perspective of a TOTAL system.The cost of gear and cables can be 100% of the cost, but it's still only 50% of the sound. B... |