sdecker
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| Personal speaker evolution '73: Lafayette 8" coax drivers in boxes, $40'75: KLH Model 32, used, $55?'79: 'New' Large Advents, new, $265'86: Boston Acoustics A200, used, $175'02: Thiel CS2.3, used, $2000Looks like I've gotten my time and money's worth out of Boston-based spe... | |
| BelCanto DACs vs transport/IC quality Took your responses to heart and replaced my Digiflex Canare with the ubiquitous Kimber Illuminati D60. Most of the differences are not subtle! Notably, a more 'relaxed', effortless presentation, 'blacker' silences, with a richer mid-bass and seem... | |
| Cart update: old TT, new electronics Arm mass confirmed.(A line got cut from my previous post: #1 was reduced audio bass output vs my old cart, #2 was increased infrasonics) Thanks to basement's suggestions. I didn't have quite the materials on-hand last night for a more elegant solu... | |
| Cart update: old TT, new electronics Final update: bought the Grado reference.Got it here for $495, the 5mv version. Figured if it works well I could always sell it for the 0.5mV later. Using the Thorens alignment template on my 2nd tonearm wand, was able to get VTA, azimuth, zenith ... | |
| Cart update: old TT, new electronics Some more information. I just spoke with John Campas at Grado who said their carts are designed for tonearms with 10-15 grams of effective mass - my Thorens is 7.5g. He said all I have to do is put 3-5g of playdoh or putty in the headshell to get ... | |
| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE Although I'm in the market for a significant speaker upgrade, I've been using a pair of the original Boston Acoustics A200, Andy Petite's first design after leaving Advent c1981 for nearly that long now. I've upgraded the caps in the crossover, by... | |
| Breaking in cables with FM static If volume is reasonable, ie not far above your normal music listening level, no damage will occur as the energy is spread evenly across the audio spectrum w/o transients. So yes, FM white noise is a very efficient way to break in all components do... |