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| why aren't ribbon tweeters more popular? Ribbons can sound clear and transparent if you are there in the sweet spot. However, stand up above the ribbon location and your top end disappears quite a lot. They also don't seem to have the naturalness of a silk dome tweeter and, although fast... | |
| When does analog compete with digital? The problem is the cost of getting even reasonably decent analogue components (yes, plural) just has to exceed the cost of getting decent digital. Lets face it, you can get very good digital for less that $1000, and actually can get reasonably goo... | |
| Tweaks to Add A Little Treble Emphasis... Do you want to play with your crossover at all? If yes, you can reduce the series tweeter resistor value by .5 or 1.0 ohm. That will result in increasing the output of the tweeter by a bit.Enjoy,Bob | |
| Parasound Halo JC-1 factory capacitor change From copnversations I had with Bob Crump, his voicing of the JC-1 was specifically around the Nichicon caps. In fact you should also see some bypass caps at the end of the rails. These used to be Relcap RT's and Nichicon KZ's, I believe.Chanking o... | |
| Travel headphones need to be... Koss Porta-Pro or Sporta-ProInexpensive, small, foldable and very good sound for their size. Plus, if they break you can send them back to Koss with a check for $6 and they'll send you a new pair. Lifetime warantee.Enjoy | |
| Tidal Speakers owners There is so much gushing over this brand that I am hugely interested in hearing them. However their presence in and around NYC is nill, providing little access. Because of this I can't help but be leery that this is a "speaker of the month" type o... | |
| Why three motors? Sorry - hit send too soon.However I'm not certain that you would get adequate "gription" with either silk thread or taps in a 3 motor version. There's just not enough surface area on them for such a small contact area on the platter. | |
| Why three motors? With a rubberized O-Ring you could have more of an issue with motor vibration (and belt "boinging") being transmitted to he platter. This becomes minimized significantly whn you use a silk string, or tape to drive the platter. There is a noticeabl... | |
| Subsonic Rumble Solutions This solved the problem on all the LP's that I have played since I upgraded. There is still some little movement on my woofers, but not the "huffing" that I was getting before very audibly on my Rel subwoofer.And believe me, I tried everything mec... | |
| Subsonic Rumble Solutions My rumble went away when I decided to change out my cartridge, which on paper looked to be a great fit with on resonance issues. I went from a Dynavector XX-1 HO to a Transfiguration Temper LO. I didn;t change anything else, but I can now safely t... | |
| Acoustic Zen Crescendos- Any Owners Out There? Hey Gopher, I was there too. The Crescendo's in that room certainly had a bass problem. It may be the dreaded one note bass that I usually find typical with transmission line enclosures. The overall speaker just didn't sound coherent to me either.... | |
| How important is ext. adj. for cartridge loading Front panel loading is certainly nice and allows you to adjust on the fly to improve the sound of any given record. Rear panel RCA plugs are a bit less friendly, but still allow an easy enough adjustment. Pulling the top and replacing a resistor s... | |
| What Step-up transformers are best value? Check out the Hagerman Piccolo, especially if you aren't afraid of using a soldering iron. It is very good stock, but really shines with some very small improvements, like a better cap in one key location and some "boutique" resistors in 2 locatio... | |
| Andreas Vollenweider? Saw him 2 years ago on a rare US tour. I think that's the problem, he can't fill large places anymore and any tour in the US becomes very costly.If he comes back I would see him in a heartbeat and bring the kids this time. Great show, very enterta... | |
| roger waters taking the wall on the road...yes/no Yeah, I saw the Coliseum show way back when too. Just picked up some presale tix for this new show. Can't wait to relive the experience (sans the mind altering things that were part of the experience last time). |