richardbrand
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| Need to learn about Audio Research @fsonicsmith I always thought the "straight wire with gain" is one of the most meaningless cliche's among the thousands in audio. Two preamps can be "straight wires with gain" and yet sound completely different, particularly if one if solid stat... | |
| Do I need upgraded power cables? @bzawa I don't understand not using a power conditioner with an amp. I would have guessed that conditioned power would be good for it. Do amps not need conditioning? All mains-driven amplifiers convert incoming Alternating Current (AC) to Dir... | |
| Do I need upgraded power cables? @wofford I will leave you with this, sea salt tastes different than mineral salt, and pink salt tastes different still! They are all salt! They are all mainly salt. None is 100% pure sodium chloride which is what we mainly think of as salt.... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? @billpete The latest Stuart and Sons 108-note concert grand piano also hits a very low 16-Hz - see Audiogon Discussion Forum on pianos! As far as I know, there is no technical reason why CDs should not go very subsonic - close to 0-Hz. | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? @billpete I took a vinyl copy of the Telarc 1812 when I auditioned the Holbo turntable! Almost all my vinyl pre-dates CDs, and I have a few dbx companded records which I can no longer play because my dbx capable player got stolen, together with... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? @billpete I'll have to look to see if I have any Hyperion. Sounds familiar but not sure. Are they D2D or just very well done? Who are the pianists? On the Shostakovich, the pianist is the brilliant Canadian Marc-Andre Hamelin. The newly relea... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? I am into classical, just getting back into vinyl, so the latest vinyl releases from Hyperion suit me, especially their new recording of Beethoven Triple Concerto and their recent vinyl release of the Shostakovich Piano Concertos. I have used the... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @newton_john Yes, and I studied crystallography for three years in the Cambridge lab set up by the Bragg father and son pair who invented X-ray diffraction crystallography. Well before computers and computer graphics, and before Crick and Watson... | |
| Short in my system? Bit of advice from Down Under - use wool carpets! Inherently free of static buildup ... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @newton_john Thanks - exactly what I was looking for. I will read "diamond hardened" to mean a "Diamond-Like Carbon Coating" which is likely to be plasma sputtered onto a substrate such as tool steel in a vacuum under tightly controlled conditi... | |
| Rumble - turntable or background noise DG LP Suggest you take a 'good' record and a 'bad' record to your local HiFi dealer. Explain that you'd like to listen on a good turntable to see where the rumble might be coming from. There is the chance of a turntable sale if it is not on the record... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade What exactly does 'diamond hardened' mean in this context? I am looking for a metallurgical explanation, please! | |
| Sold Sold Sold @grislybutter Even your email is via SSL unless it’s some horrible provider Not my understanding! The ability to encrypt emails end-to-end using public-key digital certificates has been around for decades, but hardly anyone uses it! If they d... | |
| Best Classical Labels for Sound @jfrmusic Yes, in my experience TP-link has been the fastest of the internet gateways I have used. The WiFi mesh routers I mentioned are TP-Link, from memory. Let’s be clear though. The WiFi extender gives you an Ethernet at each end, but the W... | |
| Best Classical Labels for Sound @jfrmusic Not surprised you are confusing me. When I previously asked why you wrote you need your streamer connected to the router via Ethernet. No WiFi you replied using WiFi and periodically I would experience a signal drop and have to ... |