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| babys and your components My friend visited with his 1.5 year old "Max" last summer. Max is an out-going, happy toddler, that never cried or whined. We left him unsupervised for awhile until we discovered that he had developed an obsession with climbing to the top of my hi... | |
| An open letter to Terrorists Thanks, eldragon, for the tip. Debka.com is very informative and thought-provoking, even if it is Israeli-biased, and sometimes reads like conspiracy-theory. Are there any other good news sites on the www to rescue us from disinformation and propa... | |
| 110V/50Hz equipment in a 220V/60Hz country. I used a US 110V/60Hz Pioneer PD-54 Elite CD Player on a 220V/50Hz electric power system using a step-down transformer for a few years. The step-down, of course, reduced the voltage by half, but did not affect the Hz cycle. The unit performed with... | |
| Digital Interconnect Questions Can I hear "significant" differences in digital cables? Short answer: yes, with certain cables, on certain equipment, in certain configurations, for certain purposes, with certain musical material, after a certain break-in time. You should keep in... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Lumen White Light Monitors--for dynamic speakers. See my review "White Light Monitors" here on audiogon to understand what makes them the best. | |
| Shouldn't you always go nude? Cartridge bodies lead to resonances (unless they are properly dampened...), but bodiless cartridges (as Sean said) gather dust and dirt, that accumulates on the most sensitive parts, and impedes the quality of the performance. Research on cartridg... | |
| Tone Controls Onhwy61, your comments are well-considered and very helpful. Would like to know what sonic differences you have discovered between digital EQ products. --What is striking with the z-systems TTC is the large sonic variations achievable through line... | |
| Tone Controls For purists, the thought of deviating from short, unprocessed signal paths is taboo. For the last 20 years tone control-free preamps have been made for them. The reason is obvious: tone controls introduce "grain," colorations, deterioration, or co... | |
| Nordost vs NBS Help has arrived! "Asa," thank you! If the excellence of a component is the capacity to define it, then your comments on the NBS Statement just made it even more excellent. The image of the "diffuse halos around images, particularly voice" is wond... | |
| The worst sound system The worst "sound system" (widely conceived) for me is the nerve-ripping sound of the brakes of the trains for the Frankfurt subway system (and do these subway drivers have heavy feet!)--the screech can even make the nerves in my teeth hurt on a ra... | |
| Science Fiction Time ? Listening rooms injected with floating gaseous particles each containing a microscopic loudspeaker, the signal from the amp beamed to each particle, the position of each particle kept in position by an electro-magnetic force field. | |
| Soudstage issue The effect of the lower octaves on the left and the upper octaves on the right is a very common result of studio miking techniques used for upright pianos. In the early days, most studio engineers for jazz labels placed two mics in spaced fashion ... | |
| What is the best solid state moving coil phono section? Some further SS phono stages worth mentioning:1. Scan-Tech Connoisseur Definitions 4.02. Spectral Special Edition Phono3. Blue Amp dual mono phono preamplifier 424. 47 Labs PhonoCube5. Progressive Audio Phono 16. Gryphon Orestes LEThese are all ve... | |
| Nordost vs NBS Sorry kelly, it is late at night, maybe "asa" can help me out, since he was the previous owner of one of the NBS Statements in my system, and he has always found better words to describe their sound. I mean by "over-extension" something like "spat... | |
| hifi audio store to visit in frankfurt, germany Uli makes some excellent recommendations to you Cjpark. For more, see my post on the "High end dealers in Frankfurt" thread on the "Misc. Audio" forum (do a search, but the thread is fairly recent, since drubin was recently in town). Detlof is rig... |