shasta
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| Please help with room setup... thanks The room is *the component. Everything else is secondary.Research and experimentation w/ speaker placement. | |
| Power problems Um, you really need to get a licensed electrician to as-build your wiring system. No mention of: the age of the dwelling, or what your current service rating is.I'd start by having a utility tech come out and take a look at the service plus the br... | |
| Words From the Wise Learn a little bit about typical male manifestations of Obsessive-Compulsive disorder. | |
| "Parts upgrade" on crossovers -Any experiences? For stamped woofer baskets, I'm using Ace Hardware p/n 1000355, "Paper Tak". Great adhesion and density. | |
| recommendation of a sound level meter http://www.prosoundweb.com/studyhall/lastudyhall/slm/slm.shtmlA good article from the ProSound community. | |
| Why 78rpm, 45rpm, and 33.3rpm? Trelja,Man, I'd have that phonograph restored and on display. I wonder what they retailed for in their day...I'm in the process of having my (2) 78's mentioned framed, with a copy of the backside info as an inset. Patent info dating to 1895, anoth... | |
| Clearaudio Virtuoso Wood The distributor told me 20 hrs on break in, for cart and leads. As mentioned, off-VTA will be noticeable; (but isn't that true for all carts?) Prlcs's post is close to my experience. It jumps out at you when going a wee bit negative on the VTA fro... | |
| Why 78rpm, 45rpm, and 33.3rpm? I have (2) 10" Victor 78's, one patented 1904, the other 1908. These are single-sided, with the back containing a label with patent and pricing info. The 1904 one was priced at $1.00 (12 for $10), the 1908 at 60 cents.The patent info could have be... | |
| Why 78rpm, 45rpm, and 33.3rpm? The answer - at least for 78.26 RPM - goes way back to around 1925, when it was standardized; primarily due to the advent of electrical recording technology by Bell Labs. Prior to that, individual record companies had their own speed standards, ra... | |
| Is there a knowledgeable VPI Rep out there? I'm noting that the WebSite has dropped any email contact address. | |
| Radio Stations, what is their source? FM is 50-15kHz. AM is around a telephone land line. Open E on a 4 string bass guitar is around 40Hz. Unless you are a 16 yr old female, try a test tone CD, like the Rives Audio or equivalent, and see if you *really have anything going on above aro... | |
| How much LF info on LPs? IMO, as usual, the vast majority of mass-market LP's contain truncated or highly compressed bass. Especially as one moves towards the inner grooves; especially the innermost track. Bass equals groove excursion, and that equals expending vinyl floo... | |
| Dedicated power lines-getting started subaru-Romex is indeed subject to fork-ups on installation. There are many many cases of a heavy handed gorilla taking one too many whacks with a hammer on those romex staples, crushing the wire, creating either a dead line-to-neutral/ground short... | |
| Dedicated power lines-getting started Receptacle spacing has been in the NEC forever, and is no bigie; in fact it's too conservative. No one would design a modern residence to Code minimum - and remember, the Code is *not a design guide, and most of it's requirements are *minimums.Dit... | |
| I'm interested in vinyl......... I've a friend who has amassed an LP collection nearing 1000 in about 4 years by simply having me set him up with a BOL Music Hall and Disc Doctor products. He simply rakes the $1 bins at used record shops; sometimes the $3-5 bins.If you love the m... |