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| How to eliminate FM RF coming thru turntable? Copper is a lot safer than lead, and would provide the same benefit. If you go this route research the term, "Faraday Cage", which is a lab quality box. The problem is that you need cables going in/out and that often corrupts the ability keep out ... | |
| Dodd Preamp Question Good tube comments above. I currently use a pair of Tungsrams,which are kind of a poor-man's Amperex. The Mullards will be warmer, too much so for my personal preference. The Dodd will let you hear the differences in each of these tubes. IMO, the ... | |
| How to eliminate FM RF coming thru turntable? mouser.com also sells cheap ferrites. | |
| How to diagnose the need for room treatment? Nice work, freak!The peaks @ 31.5hz & 80hz are probably the biggest concerns I see. In room high frequency plots tend to drop off steeply as you see, so not as surprising(at highest frequencies) as you might expect. However your overall pictur... | |
| Strange Room Setup a Rubik's Cube? Try sliding your seat and/or speakers 6inches forward/back and re-measure to see how much the 50hz peak and other bass frequencies change. Make sure the mic is located where your ears would be(use a camera tripod). Small changes can make a surpris... | |
| Recommend book of "must have" rock albums Tom Moon's new book, "1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die", http://search.barnesandnoble.com/1000-Recordings-to-Hear-before-You-Die/Tom-Moon/e/9780761139638 is pretty cool, although no photos of album covers. Genre-wise, this is far reaching, l... | |
| Yet another VPI 16.5 thread Grimace,Mine has been worry-free for many years. Coupled with Walker Quartet, I am very happy with performance and relative value. If ever needed, VPI support is friendly & expert, although not always easiest to reach(Tues-Thurs only).Wendell,... | |
| Those of you having experience with Manley Shrimp First, power up preamp, then power amp/amps. When shutting down, do the opposite; shut down power amp first, then pre. As for amps, knowing what speakers they'll be used with might help w/good recommendations. Personally, I've always liked Pass La... | |
| Best Albums of 2008 on Vinyl Which of all the great musical recommendations above have demonstration quality LP sonics to go along with the great performances? I love much of this music, and would like to add Vampire Weekend to the list(for the music only), but sonically, hav... | |
| Audio Desk Vinyl Cleaning System If you want quiet, get a Loricraft. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Zu Presence vs. Devore Nines Agree that you should listen if possible, especially since these speakers are both more idiosyncratic than many other speakers. From my experience, Zus excel at dynamic contrasts, & quick transient changes. I agree w/comment that they present ... | |
| How to eliminate FM RF coming thru turntable? Are you using a tube or solid state phono stage? I had similar problem and after trying many great tube phono stages, eliminated the trouble only by switching to ss phono stage. Cheers,Spencer | |
| How to diagnose the need for room treatment? I beg to differ with the last couple of responses. If you'd really like to get the best sound possible from your setup, you really need to make an attempt to gain a solid understanding of how your gear, room acoustics, speaker placement and seatin... | |
| Air Tight ATM-2 vs CAT JL2 with Avalon speakers You probably need more power. I'd be careful if you can't audition together. Cheers,Spencer | |
| Assessing room response One thing to note is that the Radio Shack meter has well documented errors at lower frequencies, and most of the test tones don't account for that. So, you can print a chart of numerical adjustments that take into account the errors and let you ad... |