onhwy61
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| People who are Irrationally Afraid of tube amps Tubes are used in electric guitar amplifiers because they produce a specific type of distortion when overdriven. Jsujo, are you implying that euphonic distortion is also why certain audiophiles are drawn towards tubes? | |
| Why Does A Concrete Floor/Spiked Metal Rack... I totally agree with Geoffkait. If you couple your rack to your house, then vibrations from the house will be transmitted to your rack. Cones and spikes are not one way devices! If you live within 5 miles of rail tracks, interstates, airports, ind... | |
| Is heavy vinyl worth it? Vinyl is like tube components, they're not for everyone. Only you can determine if vinyl is worth the hassles. | |
| iPod Confessional Monster makes a better quality cable that can be used to connect the iPod to any device equipped with stereo RCA type jacks. By itself the iPod is not an audiophile component. It is a wonderful lifestyle product that allows someone to carry around... | |
| iPod Confessional I use mine in my bedroom system and on long auto trips. It's an amazing musical device. | |
| Stacking components? Asahitoro, I've used the Metro as an equipment rack in an HT setup and it will work, but it's not a high quality stand by audiophile standards. The cement slab won't do much, you need to focus on isolating your equipment as much as possible from t... | |
| Stacking components? The Inter Metro stuff is very robust, but not particuarly rigid so it's not ideal as an equipment rack. Your idea of using Vibrapods is good, but you might want to supplement them with a maple butcher block style board. If you use cones, use them ... | |
| Power Regeneration - PS Audio Get the P600 model (can be had used for ($1300) and experiment with running the amp thru it. It may sound better running through the P600, or it may not. I have a P600 and I run my JRDG Concentra integrated and a 112 power amp through it. Even at ... | |
| People who are Irrationally Afraid of tube amps Tubes are very reliable, especially in line level applications (preamps, DACs, etc.) and even tube power amps can be made to be as reliable as solid state power amps. Sean makes some good points above as to why this isn't always the case. My main ... | |
| Hard Disk Playback Systems Dmitrydr, what makes you think that a typical CD player is not highly polluted with RF? Believe it or not designers know how noisy the computer environment is and some have actually taken step to effectively deal with it. Also don't assume that ev... | |
| Hard Disk Playback Systems If you have a professionally oriented sound card it will have word clock I/O. Unfortunately, very few audiophile type DACs have such an input. If your DAC reclocks the input signal, then jitter shouldn't be a problem. The jitter situation with har... | |
| Isolation/coupling: basics? Any number of people have testified to the positive effect that Audiopoints/Sistrum products have had on their systems and I in no way doubt their results. However, the explanation offered as to why these products works seems incomplete or even fl... | |
| Hyperbole Watchdog Forum Everytime I read that some product "blows away" another product I immediately assume the writer has no idea what they're talking about. | |
| Front row SPLs; do you listen too loud? There was a post a few months back asking about listening levels and if I remember correctly most people said they listen between 75-90dB which correlates well with your data. | |
| What are MIDs and HIs in terms of frequencies? A full range speaker should have in-room deep bass response down to 20Hz. The exact break points are arbitrary, but I would define anything below 160Hz as bass, 160-2500Hz as mids and anything above 2500Hz as treble. Crossovers designs are not inf... |