rcprince
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| Snake oil and tweaks that work! Having heard them last week, the inner tubes under the components are a cheap tweak to isolate your equipment from vibrations and very beneficial, particularly for CDPs and tubed eqipment. Just play with the inflation level, you don't want to over... | |
| Cambridge Audio D500SE CD player Photon46's damping with sand on top of the CDP is also a good idea if you try the innertube support; you've isolated the unit from vibrations coming from its support, the bag on top mass damps the chasis vibrations. I'd hate to see what this all w... | |
| anyone with a 'system' near me? There are a number of audio societies and clubs out there--in NJ we have the New Jersey Audio Society, NY has The Audiophile Society, the Gotham Audio Society and probably more. Stereophile has some of them listed under their Industy Update column... | |
| High on Thier List, But Low on Yours I never found the WATT/Puppy combo to be to my taste (haven't heard version 6 though). Probably because they are more designed for nearfield listening and I prefer a larger, more spacious sound, and maybe because I don't necessarily care that much... | |
| SACD player is not that great. There are a number of threads on upgrades and mods for the Sony players, you should look for them. The Sony output stage on the 777ES is nothing special, to my ears, and that may be the source of some of your disappointment, particularly given you... | |
| Turntable innertubes: air, water, oil Alexc: The silicone that our host tried was "silicone shock oil", which he got from a radio control hobby shop for $3.50 a bottle. He was and is still experimenting with it; currently he used 45 viscosity (they went from 10-100, he got 45 because ... | |
| Cambridge Audio D500SE CD player Trelja, after hearing this tweak last week, it's worth trying--get a small innertube at K-mart, put it under the CDP and inflate it enough to get the player's feet off the surface it's resting on, but not too much more than that (you've got to not... | |
| Cambridge Audio D500SE CD player Actually, Sony's discs are ALL single layer discs(!!). Their idea of backward compatibility is that the SACD player will play both CDs and SACDs. I question their judgment, given that virtually all, if not all, of the other SACD releases are hybri... | |
| True Confessions of a Soul Man You guys are bringing back old memories. A while back our firm was involved in a securitization transaction for Holland/Dozier/Holland, and afterwards one of the firms involved found a bunch of promo CDs in a warehouse of 24 or so of their greates... | |
| Cambridge Audio D500SE CD player Trelja, when you get the SACD make sure it's not a hybrid disc, or else your player will play the CD layer and not the SACD layer. If you want, contact me and I can send you the Sony sampler, which I got with my SACD player and I think is only a s... | |
| Static/scratchiness - driving me crazy!! I had a similar problem with my Forsell transport, only with the first time I would play a disc. Scared the hell out of me, and I used to turn down the volume every time when starting up a disc. Had the thing completely refurbished when I upgraded... | |
| Turntable innertubes: air, water, oil We had a tweak demonstration for our Audio Society this weekend, and I would have to say that the innertubes under all components made a noticable improvement in all of the demos, both for soundstaging and for the leading edge of transients. You h... | |
| Buidling a Classical Library - MUST HAVES! Jadem6, do you have any period of classical music that you prefer (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20th Century, etc.)? It would help to narrow the field, if you want to do that. By the way, although I may not always agree with their recommendations... | |
| Red Rose or Audio Prism? Red Rose's electronics are the AudioPrism gear, in some cases a little tweaked up but essentially the same stuff. They have been around for a while before Levinson acquired their electronics business. I've always liked their components, which deli... | |
| SACD Players Doug: Haven't heard the Accuphase. I'm sure it's impressive, although take a look at the thread SACD Demo, from last November, where several posters heard an unbroken-in sample of the combo and gave it mixed reviews. Also, Stereophile reviews it t... |