sleepwalker65
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| The Best Bass Ever? A Subwoofer Discovery Be careful of the type of insulation you choose for damping material in any non-sealed enclosure. Airborne glass or mineral fibers will be inhaled and cause lung disease. | |
| I want to replace the router/modem Comcast with a high quality for streaming 1. Go with direct 1G Ethernet copper cabling wherever possible. It is infinitely more reliable, economical and has much higher bandwidth. 2. Do not “power line Ethernet” products. They do not work. 3. Buy off-lease enterprise grade Cisco s... | |
| Easy Come Easy Go…….BOOM! Panel surge suppression devices will not help in a direct strike situation. Your best strategy is to minimize likelihood of direct strikes by lowering the lightning profile of your house with properly installed “lightning rods”. I use “quotation m... | |
| New TT : Balanced vs. Unbalanced Connection? @lewm : “I hope you get the salient point that ICs per se count for nothing if the phono stage (in this instance) is not capable of balanced operation. Therefore you can’t have one without the other.” That is quite misguided. Single ended is in f... | |
| 3-4 dB dip at crossover region: what should I listen for to hear it? If you want to know exactly what the crossover characteristics are, it’s quite easily done. Get a used audio frequency generator and oscilloscope and plot the curve with some graph paper or Excel. | |
| Mid-Fi, Hi-Fi or.....? Mid-Fi can be experienced with esoteric gear and Hi-Fi can be experienced with so-called Mid-Fi gear. The trick to optimize the set up of your system so it can meet your requirements. I am an avid analog guy. My gear is all vintage except for my p... | |
| Help me find a pre-amp Don’t forget to sprinkle some magic fuses and power cables in. Magical thinking is key! | |
| Best vinyl shopping in Colorado? Twist and Shout is epic awesome. Almost as good as the original Hollywood Amoeba Music, and way better than the new one. I can’t wait to go back to Denver! | |
| AN Niobium versus Tantalum resistors? Don’t overlook the importance of resistor tolerance. The difference you hear may be (probably is) variance in actual resistance affecting the ability of all circuits in the signal path from meeting the designer’s objectives. Subtle variances can b... | |
| Seeking Legit Cartridge Expert? “Legit” is just a social media trope. Anyways… don’t rule out the widely acclaimed AT VM540ML. That’s what I use to listen to Zeppelin and a lot of other guitar-centric classic rock. As a bonus, its micro line stylus life is twice that of most oth... | |
| New TT : Balanced vs. Unbalanced Connection? This discussion has gone off-topic. It is supposed to be about the virtues of balanced, differential interconnects vs single-ended. Yes, much of it applies to other interconnects, but this discussion is about the interconnects between the turntabl... | |
| Power questions Don’t confuse neutral sizing for commercial and industrial with neutral sizing for residential. (Commercial/industrial is 3 phase with neutrals that are almost always shared, and powering single phase loads can easily result in overloading of the ... | |
| New TT : Balanced vs. Unbalanced Connection? Right question, wrong reason. You need to find out for yourself if induced noise from unbalanced interconnects is objectionable to you or not. That aside, unbalanced (using one of the signal conductors as the signal ground for the other signal... | |
| Static attack! Time to get the humidifiers going Best advice is to not try to fight nature. It is futile. North of the 49th parallel, we experience extreme cold that often comes extremely suddenly. Unless you are cooking constantly with a lot of boiling water, and have a houseful of people that... | |
| At this level of high(er) end audio why not offer balanced connections? The use of the XLR connector system has nothing at all to do with the application (electrical specification or the type of signal). Electrical signalling may be balanced or unbalanced or differential. It does not even specify the number of connect... |