rodman99999
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| Comparing Phono Pre-Amps You could use something like this, probably: https://www.amazon.com/Switch-Passive-selector-switcher-Splitter/dp/B0894TGBT8 Maybe two (they're cheap). One (connected backwards) for selecting which phono preamp the TT’s signal feeds and... | |
| Is Imaging Worth Chasing? Whenever imaging or soundstage are mentioned, I like to remind people about these resources: The following provide tests, with which one may determine whether their system actually images, or reproduces a soundstage, as recorded. ie: On the ... | |
| Integrated amp recommendation for Maggie .7's @audionoobie - How big a room? How big do you like your sound? Asking because: the presentation you're describing could be the onset of the Belles' power limit and distortion. Or: is that the case at all vol... | |
| Integrated amp recommendation for Maggie .7's @audionoobie - Were you to add a simple Bass array (ie: four Subs) to a pair of Maggies and the STR INT*, mentioned above; I’ll bet the combo would sound outstanding. You WILL want woofers (imo)! ... | |
| Magnepan Directionality/Off Axis Dipolar/planar speakers will have a beamy (figure eight) radiation pattern, by design, which is advantageous in some environments. Used correctly: better imaging, less room interaction/reflection/interference. ... | |
| "Audiophile" Power Cables: The Greatest Audio Conspiracy Theory of All Time? SOCRATES: The only true wisdom is knowing when you know nothing. Me: To know you don't know anything, you have to know something. | |
| "Audiophile" Power Cables: The Greatest Audio Conspiracy Theory of All Time? @mhwilliford - Back in March 2022: a thread about power cords and break/burn-in was started. I hate to type, so: I'm going to copy/paste some of my speculations. That a highly complex musical signal, MIGHT affect Poynting vectors... | |
| "Audiophile" Power Cables: The Greatest Audio Conspiracy Theory of All Time? The Church of Denyin'-tology has been with us for many years and remains alive and well (well: so to speak). "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." (Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse , 1872) ... | |
| Cumulative Effect of cables question I've found Kimber and Synergistic's products to allow increasing ambient info through, while decreasing in their editorializing of tonality/timber/etc, as I moved up their product line. Both manufacturers' lower priced products are VE... | |
| New Synergistic Master Fuse Anyone actually interested in improving the sound/presentation of their system and curious, as to whether a simple fuse change might make a difference, can audition the Synergistic, at home, for 30 days, without risk. Click on the follo... | |
| Synergistic Research Orange Fuses Anyone actually interested in improving the sound/presentation of their system and curious, as to whether a simple fuse change might make a difference, can audition the Synergistic, at home, for 30 days, without risk. Click on the follo... | |
| Synergistic Research Master Fuse £565 Anyone actually interested in improving the sound/presentation of their system and curious, as to whether a simple fuse change might make a difference, can audition the Synergistic, at home, for 30 days, without risk. Click on the follo... | |
| How does a speaker blow out? @mikedc - A test* (if you haven't already): *IF your problem/distortion only arises in one channel/woofer: swap your speaker systems to see if it follows the driver. ... | |
| How does a speaker blow out? @mikedc - When you heard that painful woofer sound, during the organ music, was your source vinyl? Asking because: subsonics, caused by stylus travel (ie: record warp, arm/cart resonance, etc) will often cause woofer over-travel a... | |
| How does a speaker blow out? After having repaired a few hundred speaker systems; I can only speak from my own experience/observations. A clipped signal and it's energy, after opening up a tweeter and having no where else to go, will end up in the x-over's, nex... |