sleepwalker65
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| Vinyl Cleaning I recommend tried and true Discwasher with D4 fluid. | |
| Bi-amp through receiver vs pre out to 2 channel for fronts A little perspective here. I have a pair of vintage NAD integrated amplifiers: a 3020i and 3025PE set up to bi-amp my Energy Connoisseur speakers. The performance is great, and they didn’t cost a fortune. All it takes is a bit of scouring the vint... | |
| BEST SHIELDED XLR CABLES Make your own with Belden Brilliance 1696A or other AES/EBU grade cable and Neutrik connectors. They’re dead-simple to make. Shield by the way is important, especially so if you are conveying moving coil or moving magnet phono cartridge signal to ... | |
| What speaker cable made a major difference in the sound quality of your speakers?? Yes, there is opportunity to preserve the sound quality and integrity along the path from source to amplifier. That said, the greatest opportunity is on the trip from the amplifier to the loudspeakers, simply on a power loss level. With low level ... | |
| Am I using the right speaker cables? Eeeez allabout duh speekar cabal bernieen tyme. An don fogat uboad shakey dug muhjeek cheekun phoot ad eeet to. | |
| If you still spin CD's their is a reference level Transport for reasonable money “There” not “their”. | |
| Technics Turntables...really??? There was a legit point though, how the brand has become tarnished by all the hacks and rapper “DJs” that don’t have a clue about why they think they need a pair of SL-1200mk2 turntables to make terrible noise with. Truth is that the esteemed SL-1... | |
| UPS for country cabin Second for Eaton’s on line UPSproducts. They operate with the battery always in the picture, without any transition glitch when utility power fails. Look for units with pure sine wave output instead of the units that approximate a sine wave. I use... | |
| What speaker cable made a major difference in the sound quality of your speakers?? I bought into “good” quality cables some 30 years ago, with Monster “Standard” #12AWG. If I include the cost of Monster banana connectors, I reckon the original investment was south of $300 for a pair of 8 foot cables. Equivalent price today would... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? There’s plenty of snake oil in the cable business, and plenty of good value up until a quality threshold is reached. The law of diminishing returns comes into play here. Take speaker cables for example. You don’t need to spend hundreds of dollars ... | |
| Highest detail cartridges I’m very impressed with my Audio Technica VM540ML cartridges. I’ve got one on a Technics SL-1700mk2 and another on a Technics SL-Q2. Admittedly, they are the most expensive cartridges I own, and I can’t stomach the idea of spending over $500, let ... | |
| RoyLCraft custom Technics SP/SL-1600MK2 Turntable Czarivey, your post makes no sense. The SL-1600mk2 / SL-1700mk2 / SL-1800mk2 have both rubber/felt feet and a spring suspended tonearm and platter. That is vastly superior to the hunk of rubber that the SL-1200mk2 sits on in terms of sound and sho... | |
| RoyLCraft custom Technics SP/SL-1600MK2 Turntable the SL-1200mk2 is a dumbed-down derivative of the SL-1600mk2. Technically, the SL-1600mk2 / SL-1700MK2 / SL-1800mk2 are a more sophisticated platform from which the ruggedized SL-1200mk2 is based on. The SL-1600mk2 has a vastly superior double-iso... | |
| Best banana plugs 2016 Monster Quicklock banana plugs are my favourite. They work with nearly any gauge and strand configuration of speaker cable. I’m using them with Monster Standard 12AWG cable in a bi-amp setup of my Energy Connoisseur speakers to a pair of NAD vinta... | |
| Technics Turntables...really??? The premium Technics product certainly holds its own against many of the best in the business. I’ve just finished restoring a SL-1700mk2, which was the basis for the more simple SL-1200mk2 that everyone knows and some misguidedly despise. That des... |