shadorne
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| Curved and Straight Tonearms @yogiboy Good points and a good article marketing the benefits of thin wall - a bit like the benefits of Rega light weight acrylic plinth and platters (in the case of Rega the sympathetic absorption of vinyl vibration is most effective when using ... | |
| Curved and Straight Tonearms @testpilot Good question. While at it you could ask why are cheap plastic (acrylic) light weight turntables promoted over heavy plinth steel/wood traditional designs?I think production and shipping cost has something to do with it...not sure if al... | |
| Seems like any equipment in a metal case is protected from rfi You can buy Mu-metal in sheets - lots of devices that need magnetic shielding use it - medical instruments, power transformers and in the past on CRT tubes on instrumentation.I suppose you could buy it to shield amplifier tubes from the magnetic 6... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... @geoffkait Why a supermassive black hole in the centre of our galaxy?Because the supreme creator speaks to us through music! We may be made in the creators image but the galaxy is made in the image of a giant turntable with a black hole at the c... | |
| Curved and Straight Tonearms An S shape has the advantage of resonance reduction. The two bends add rigidity to vibration compared to a straight tube and flexural waves will be attenuated. Also a larger tube is more rigid than a small tube even if they weigh the same (tubes h... | |
| Seems like any equipment in a metal case is protected from rfi Steel works great for RFI noise. However magnetic fields of low frequency will still penetrate the chassis. Mu-metal is needed to protect from the common source of low frequency magnetic field noise from AC power transformers.Good news is magnetic... | |
| 2017 amps - $10K to $15K who is on your short list? I would add Benchmark AHB2 to your list. It may not cost $10K but it measures better than any power amp I am aware of at any price and it packs a fair punch in terms of power if bridged mono.https://www.stereophile.com/content/benchmark-media-syst... | |
| Curved and Straight Tonearms S shaped arms allow for a greater pivot point distance than a straight arm - so less tracking error.... | |
| Amps from the 1980's -- What gear holds up sonically? Reliably? Agree with the original OP statement. Would add that speakers improved dramatically during the 80’s too. More than at any time since then.I would say the most recent decade is the golden age of digital and headphones - things have improved substan... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... My point is that not everything that exists or existed will affect the audio signal in a meaningful way. Simple existence of acid rain does not mean we need to be concerned about it for audio reproduction of music. | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Lol. Quantum mechanics is real and so are many mind boggling things like black holes. Naysayers do not deny them. Quantum mechanics plays a role in junctions in transistors. However, there is absolutely no evidence that these things play any meani... | |
| Has anyone found Audio Nirvana? To go to Audio Nirvana you must be holding your remote control, vinyl anti-static brush or headphones or any of your favorite audio tools of the trade in your hand when you die. | |
| Focal Scala Utopia V1 vs Competition in 2017 I think it is better value than anything from Wilson or B&W at that price. Similar type sound but as I recall I think they image extremely well.The bass driver was updated in later models - you may be able to do that too. | |
| Preamps with two main-outs +1 Allooks like you found it! Nevertheless an active amplifier works as specified with input impedance as stated when powered up - I am not sure what happens to the input buffering on all amps when switched off - probably most remain high impedanc... | |
| Denafrips Terminator R2R Multibit, ultimate pcm redbook converter?? @teo_audio Just because there are many bad sounding (screeching as you put it) Delta Sigma DACs does not mean that none of them are any good.The latest Delta-sigmas use multiple 1 bit converters to achieve the same as a 6 bit R2R DAC. You can unde... |