richardbrand
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| Should I use Audiopoints under Aerial 10T spikes on hardwood floor? In my opinion, the main reason for using spikes on any floor is to stop the speaker cabinet moving back when a dynamic driver moves forward, and vice versa. It is Isaac Newton's law of action and reaction. For this reason, IsoAcoustics makes iso... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @mijostyn "Do you have stadium concerts down under? If you go to one you can hear midrange/bass line sources. The sound is usually awful. I do not bother any more" Yes, there was a concert last night at Sydney Olympic Park, Main Arena. Seats ove... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @lewm No, I was lost. Could have been integrated circuit! | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @atmasphere OK, RFI via the tonearm cable makes sense! The Krell has adjustable impedance from 5 to 47,000 Ohms, set with internal switches, for MC cartridges. It has switchable gain for MM cartridges. Its frequency range is 5 to 100,000 Hz w... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @lewm IC? NFI! RFI = Radio Frequency Interference | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @lewm and everybody else! Yes, I have a mountain of advice on what jazz records to buy, and I am sifting through it all. Meanwhile if I spot new classical record releases with excellent reviews for a fifth or a tenth of the cost of the best audi... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @atmasphere Thanks for your detailed advice! I have a lot of classical CDs and SACDs where the original was mastered on Westrex systems, mainly Mercury Living Presence. I also have vinyl records where the master is stated to be digital on the sl... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital Time for an update. I have just received the first vinyl music I have bought in 40 years, but is it not jazz! It is something I don’t much like, Beethoven’s Triple Concerto which really is a piano trio with orchestral backing. The four sides avera... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @mijostyn ESL in Australia normally means English Second Language, and represents the quarter of the population who don't speak English at home. I try to use English as a Scientific Language with precise meaning. Seems we are from two nations ... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @lewm So it seems as if the four sub-woofers are spaced in a line with 4 feet between adjacent ones. The far left and the far right are thus separated by about 3 x 4 = 12 feet.. For the record, Quad ESL speakers, apart from the original, do no... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL @mijostyn According to their website, your so-called ’real’ line source speaker tries to emulate the behaviour of a virtual line source situated about 3 feet behind the panel, just as Quad ESL>63 try to emulate a point source a foot behind the ... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital Cleo Laine, or Lady Dankworth as she is now known, was also an actress, singer in musicals (eg Show Boat in London which ran for 910 performances) and an opera singer (Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins). For those who think British jazz ain't ja... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @grislybutter How about Cleo Lane? She could sing ballads, swing and do scat with very pure, very rapid notes backed by ’her’ British Jazz band led by Johnny Dankworth (later Sir John Dankworth). I remember a drum solo where the drummer ended up... | |
| New Electrical Circuit @skeptikal I am with you with respect to managing noise in the mains supply. But I think most of the electrical noise affecting our components is generated by other components in our own audio chains. In particular, I have a subwoofer with a c... | |
| New Electrical Circuit You did not say what country you are in! Most of the answers assume USA, but in much of the rest of the world we use higher voltages, so much less current is drawn for the same power. My supply is nominally 240-V RMS, though it is usually 250. ... |