salectric
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| How long should high quality speakers last? It all depends on how the speakers were constructed and the materials used. Cones with foam surrounds deteriorate in a few years and need repair. Quality speakers with long-lasting materials are a different story. My woofers were made in 1946. ... | |
| SUT suggestions for Audio Note System I have a Koetsu Black (not the Goldline but an older Sugano cartridge), and I find it works just fine with either a copper EMIA 1:10 or Audio Innovations T2 1:25. | |
| Ugliest Component of the Year 2024! For me it’s a tie between McIntosh and D’Agostino. | |
| For fans of John McLaughlin and Mahavishnu Orchestra I saw them just once, somewhere in the Philadelphia area in the early 1970s. It was before “Birds of Fire” because they played a song from it as their next album. I played Inner Mounting Flame over and over. | |
| Resistor Burn-in Methods Congratulations on getting your amp sounding the way you want! As you noted, it requires a lot of time and patience to try lots of different resistors and capacitors to find the best match for your system and your priorities, but that really is t... | |
| Resistor Burn-in Methods Congratulations on getting your amp sounding the way you want! As you noted, it requires a lot of time and patience to try lots of different resistors and capacitors to find the best match for your system and your priorities, but that really is t... | |
| Are You Old Enough to Remember Those Jaw-Dropping Manufacturer Demos? The dealer driving Klipschorns with a Phase Linear would have fit right in at this year’s CAF. A number of rooms had ridiculous ear-splitting volumes. Maybe it’s because baby boomers are all going deaf. | |
| Are You Old Enough to Remember Those Jaw-Dropping Manufacturer Demos? I don’t know if you would call it a gimmick but the best demonstration at a hifi show for me was at a DC show in the spring of 1970. The good folks at Dynaco were demonstrating the new A25 speakers by hiding them behind a screen that covered the ... | |
| Are You Old Enough to Remember Those Jaw-Dropping Manufacturer Demos? I recall the upside-down turntable demo. For me it was at a hifi show in Philly during the early 1970s. | |
| Audio Innovations Series 800 SUT - looking for info I expect the S1000 is wired the same as your S800. The switch on my S1000 connects a pair of transformer windings either in series or in parallel. I removed the switch and simplified the wiring for a nice improvement in sound quality. I later r... | |
| Stuff You Tried To Love Threshold Fet 10/e phono Audio Research SP-9, PH-1 and LS-2 Thiel 3.6 Classe CA-300 Rega Planar 3 I’m sure I could come up with many more but this is getting depressing. | |
| Best container to move prized records between homes? Thanks! When I moved a year ago, I had to pack my 3000 records so they would survive two moves, first from our old house to a storage warehouse while our new house was being finished, and then 3 months later from the warehouse to the new house 160 mikes a... | |
| What Holiday Gifts did you ask for or Give to Yourself? My wife gave me a pair of Western Electric capacitors made in 1934. She’s the best! | |
| Cable elevators @bdp24 Have you actually tried the Home Depot stand with your cables? | |
| Cable elevators Each riser I have tried made the bass too lean and some of them introduced a glare in the treble. The risers I tried were all household objects like wood blocks, cardboard tubes, 3 sticks arranged like a teepee, foam, etc. Maybe if I had spent $... |