petg60
Responses from petg60
| Best bang for buck integrated amp for $500 Have you tried the used market?Most likely to find something interesting there. | |
| In term of construction, what's the difference between cheap vs. expensive power cables Research, design, quality and quantity of conductor, screening, quality of dielectric and sheath, quality of plugs. Any other treatments and processes during manufacture plus testing and listening evaluation would add to the price. And these are n... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother (MFSL) half speed, 200gr. USA 1994.Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds (Harvest), UK 1972. | |
| My experience with bi-wiring Though i liked @bpoletti meaning of bi-wire and bi-amp, i understand that is speaker dependant.Tried bi-wire, tried diagonal and ended up with better jumpers, after trying some, in conventional set up. | |
| Flipping record causing series of loud pops Acrylic platter, felt mat, not so good record brush, humidity, a more sensitive phono stage?, Try to turn the volume down or mute till you short it out. | |
| why did my record player slow down, speed up, then go back to normal? Too little info, so all would be a guess. On start up, while playing, how often, type of drive.... | |
| You mean someone buys this stuff? Sophisticated and not functional, great combination for some sales. | |
| How much reality do you really need? i like the icing and until it's there. | |
| So how can a great system solve less than great recordings Mediocre, bad or not so ideal recordings can sound confused, lacking in life and in some cases are barely listenable in lesser systems.Same material on a better system transforms to something with a meaning with an easy to follow performance and s... | |
| Low power amps and speaker damage? When at clipping basically the tweeter sees a peak level for an extended period of time. No time for voice coil to cool. Have you ever seen a tweeter on fire? It does not matter if the amp is big or small, you can damage speakers either way.A smal... | |
| Balancing sound to sharpen dialogue? Without having enough info of your speakers positioning i would suggest to move them a bit forward in the room and try to get them a bit closer together. From there you can listen if you want more toe in or not. As you do not have a sub and you re... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Nicolo Paganini - Salvatore Accardo, London Philarmonic orchestra, Charles Dutoit, Concerto Per Violino (N.1) "Le Streghe" (DG) UK 1976. | |
| Arrangement of components on rack Cable length and cable management are good problems for where to place components. | |
| Clear vinyl vs. regular black vinyl @sokogear,i found out that both black and clear can be found nearly same period in mono as well, still from Classic records.So many releases in few years period.Mine is 2008.And sure prices are high. | |
| Tube Flavor Few years back i would stand that NOS tubes or tube rolling could bring nirvana. After spending so much money and time i came to the point that it is not that big deal after all. Still though some of them do worth to try but proceed with caution.T... |