richardbrand
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| Some thoughts on dust covers @lewn Thanks for that Shure thing! I guess it is in a chapter from 1978 in high-fidelity-phonograph-cartridge-technical-seminar-faq.pdf entitled CHARGES ON THE RECORD--A STUDY OF STATIC ELECTRTCITY ON PHONOGRAPH RECORDS. The only mention of styl... | |
| Which company manufactures this Ethernet switch for the other? @audphile1 What happens if the catching midget drops a catch? Or the throwing midget has not received the next one to throw? So where do your dedicated circuits join? What devices, if any, isolate them from each other? This is a serious ques... | |
| Digital isolation between Ethernet hub and streamer @audphile1 Thanks for clearing that up for me! You did originally post 'near zero' but now it is a 'good amount'. My partner really believes there are four types of matter: electrons, protons, neutrons and morons. By and large, we 'audiophile... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers @lewm I thought you made your position clear in your first post, no need to say any more! You are right - electrostatic forces are orders of magnitude more powerful than gravity. Another way to create static charges is to rub vinyl with a diamo... | |
| Digital isolation between Ethernet hub and streamer @audphile1 Unpacking your username, I see you love AUD. So do I, but I just can't get enough! Do I understand correctly that you have a WiFi mesh router about 1 metre from your system? And you claim it produces near zero RFI and EMI? Surely th... | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? @thecarpathian You asked in my opinion what "is the best type copper for cable application?". I am here primarily to learn, so really I am the worst person to ask! However my physics background forces me to apply Occam's razor to claims. If th... | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? Anyone know what happens when you bend a single crystal wire? My metallurgical training would suggest the single crystal would morph into multiple crystals, or grains. It is called work hardening. Grain boundaries increase resistance. Unlike oth... | |
| Package Has Disappeared in USPS System Thank goodness I live in Australia and buy most of my stuff from the UK and China. Australia Post provides by far the best courier service locally. Usually I don't insure and they have never lost anything of mine, ever. The UK postal service se... | |
| Which company manufactures this Ethernet switch for the other? @cleeds Oh dear, you are way off reality here and the key to it all is the word 'streaming'. The Internet can indeed be used to deliver bit-perfect transmission using the TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol) stack. This gu... | |
| Which company manufactures this Ethernet switch for the other? @audphile1 All devices which are fed Ethernet must process the data packets and cache them into a buffer before reconstructing the data stream. The buffer acts like a solid state disk without the added complexity of file systems and disk blocks!... | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? @audphile1 Johnny Walker blends malts all the time. Blue Label includes Lagavulin ... The real crime in my book is adding ice My point is that a tiny dram of another whisky has a chance of improving the single malt, which itself is likely a b... | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? @mclinnguy The guy who organised the whisky tastings was very quietly spoken and must have had pretty good hearing. He was an SAS instructor, and his reputed specialty was to disarm a knife wielding attacker while he was unarmed AND BLINDFOLDED.... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers It is pretty obvious most turntable manufacturers would rather not have to deal with dustcovers! Thought I'd try to measure the attenuation from my cover, so I dug out my Denon Audio Technical CD and played some test tracks. At the same time, I ... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers @lewm Household-wide, I normally subscribe to the equilibrium theory of dust - eventually enough leaves to balance the amount arriving! But if you do use a dust cover while playing, the air volume inside the cover is pretty much a closed system... | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? In my youth, when I could only afford 20 for a bottle of scotch, I thought they all tasted about the same. Later in life I graduated to single malts 5 to 10 times more costly. Each year, we stopped blind tasting wine and did a whisky tasting. All ... |