rodman99999
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| Fuses that matter. Hello Mr. A- There are fast and slo-blo fuses manufactured in both 6.3 X 30mm and 5 X 20mm sizes. It's the internal conductor/construction that determines the lag time. Generally speaking; a single thin wire would indicate a fast-blo type, but it ... | |
| Plaster Walls Plaster/lath is much denser, more rigid and thus: less resonant, than the Sheetrock over stud construction, of later homes. The former retains less energy/returns less to the room, than the latter, which I've personally found; makes those rooms ea... | |
| How to improve power supply? Happy listening! | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth @Zavato- You said that, even though you don't need one now; you still want a Disctracker. The one on eBay is still available. | |
| How can I drive a very large passive subwoofer? The Crown XLS Series amps may be an viable alternative, if you can stand the noise that fans make, in your listening room. Personally, I've found that extraneous noise, even at a subliminal level, masks detail. | |
| How can I drive a very large passive subwoofer? A copy of the manual and further info, can be found here, though you may have to copy/paste it in your url bar: ( https://sites.google.com/site/mpbarney/home/dahlquist-dq-lp1 ) | |
| How can I drive a very large passive subwoofer? One excellent device, that will accomplish what you want, and be very transparent to your mains, is the Dahlquist DQ-LP1. They can be hard to find, at times. The are well worth the effort to seek out though. Passive High Pass/active Lo Pass, adjus... | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth @Pryso- Something like this? ( http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4151998.pdf ) ( http://www.ebay.com/itm/DiscTraker-Tone-Arm-Cartridge-Damper-RARE-with-all-parts-and-instructions-/191373090757?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c8eb99fc5 ) | |
| FYI: VPI HW-19 motors Mr A- It's possible that your belt is slipping slightly, heating up from the friction(at the pulley), and expanding. If you allow the table to rest(turned off) between sides: do you still have the same issue? | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth I should have said that Grey Research manufactured viscous-damped tonearms, widely used WITH Pickering carts, back in the 50's: (http://www.vinylengine.com/library/gray-research/108-b.shtml) | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth The Shure M97xE had a viscous damped, "dynamic Stabilizer" as well. Pickering and Stanton both had weighted brushes, attached to their stylus assemblies, in an attempt to control movement/resonances, before Shure. Pickering had tonearms that were ... | |
| Stylus cleaner Hi Larry- I don't doubt that(mysterious goo) a bit, and have seen it myself! There have been a number of, "groove lubrication" products, over the years, that could be over-applied, dredged out of the groove by the stylus and flipped up onto the ca... | |
| Stylus cleaner Unless a cantilever were made of a layered material, with gaps running up it's length, or it were porous(highly unlikely); no liquid could venture up it's length, via capillary action/wicking. If the cantilever were hollow, as some are, one would ... | |
| is buying used Mcintosh equipment online bad idea? Doesn't matter how one comes across vintage equipment; it should be expected that the electrolytic capacitors will need to be replaced. Even new/unused electrolytics, sitting on a shelf for any length of time, dry out and degrade. Some info: (http... | |
| Granite surface plate I've been using 2" granite, layered with 3/4" Corian, separated by 1/8" felt, under my amps for a couple years. My VPI turntable is sitting on top of a cabinet I built(30 years ago), on 2" of granite, atop 1 1/2" of HDF, with Texas Instruments EMI... |