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| 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... | |
| Looking for tabletop ideas for VPI 16.5RCM Get Walker Audio Prelude Quartet. You won't need to scrub, you won't need to steam. You won't need a bigger area or stand to scrub. Your regimen will be faster than ever and your records will be cleaner than ever. More importantly, they will sound... | |
| Best Phono Stage within 2000 $ The used Klyne 7 just listed is a rare steal. A used Vendetta if you can find one was what I hunted for and eventually found. In the ss camp, these are IMO far ahead of the others mentioned. In the tube camp, phono stages need a relatively RFI-fre... | |
| Walker Vortex Vacuum Wand for VPI Chad,Not so sure that the food coloring would prove anything. I'm no chemist, but since food coloring is made to adhere color to other things(e.g. cookies), it seems like that happening in your experiment just would show that food coloring does in... | |
| Amp for Amati Homage?? They use Bernings at SF's HQ. The new monoblocks are probably pretty awesome. Cheers,Spencer |