psychicanimal
Responses from psychicanimal
| Where can I get educated about cables? "Cables, power conditioning, vibration control, and room teatment (or lack there of) will make or break your system."Those are very wise words by Tweak1. I strongly adhere to those principles. Work on room treatment first, because it will allow yo... | |
| advice on brightness Phoenix Gold uses continuous cast, single crystal copper--if I'm not mistaken--and it's very reasonably priced... | |
| advice on brightness Power line conditioning and room acoustic treatments, anyone? Come on! | |
| Frank Van Alstine Grado Longhorn Cartridge?? Van Alstine's idea is good, I would say. The rods will add lateral and torsional stability and the damping clarity. Problem is he's doing it to a Grado Prestige Green, a very cheap cartridge. I have a Blue, which is one step above. It is thin on t... | |
| System Plateau--Help Me Take The Next Step Get this right, dude--Salamander type racks are no good. You have no idea what a good rack can do and I don't mean spending lots of money either... | |
| Frank Van Alstine Grado Longhorn Cartridge?? What's your TT? | |
| System Plateau--Help Me Take The Next Step "We're not mind-readers" But I'm the Psychic!Yo man, get rid of the Salamander and the Vibrapods, will you? You are not getting what you crave for because your system is not *tuned*, basically. I believe tuning account s for 50% of the sound of a ... | |
| Best Used Turntable for around 1K Xie, Steve Rochlin of www.enjoythemusic.com and Thorsten (European reviewer) did the comparison of a P3 vs stock Technics 1200. No contest--the real turntable won... | |
| PS Audio's Ultimate Outlet Subaru, relax! There's an explanation to this outlet in the Asylum. Bob Crump wrote it and then Paul McGowan posted confirming it. Has to do with the dielectrics chosen in order to balance nickel's brightness.Suave, man... | |
| Best Used Turntable for around 1K Read my posts--search the archive! Be open minded... | |
| System for a teenager Albert--are you serious? Tubes for a teenager? Imagine if we used tubes when my friends and I were that age! LOTS of retubing!!!I would get a decent used DVD-CDP and send it to Dan W. to install a tube circuit board (or mod an Ah!), get the kid a ... | |
| cartridge recomendations There's Vulcans, Klingons and Viridians!!! | |
| cartridge recomendations Viridian--a shade of green? I thought it was a Star Trek character! | |
| Power Conditioners vs. Power Cables Quote: "And from what it sounds like, I'm not wasting my time, or money, in upgrading my power cables."If you do that time and money expenditure before working on room acoustics you WILL be wasting a lot of time and money! | |
| Power Conditioners vs. Power Cables Lak has given you the correct sequence to inprovements, though you might just want to start with step 2, being cheaper than step 1, unless you can do it yourself... |