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| Vibration control. Tube equipment. What's the best way to do it ? I suppose grain structure could affect sound, I was thinking the sap or moisture content but that would dry after tree death and manufacturing processes. And you're right, all the variety of wood in musical instruments. I suppose some experts with... | |
| No one talks about Purist Audio Design cables. I used any number of their cables back in the day, Dominus Ferox and Fluids, had some IC's, can't recall the model, all were favs for quite a while. | |
| Vibration control. Tube equipment. What's the best way to do it ? @inna You often see speakers and turntables made of various woods, esthetics for speaker I imagine, people report differences with turntables. I'd think there would have to be a pretty wide variation between wood densities to hear a difference. | |
| Are EL34 based amps more musical than KT series based ? Or it's purely a matter of design? Agree with most posters here, EL34 easily my favorite push pull amp tube. Sweet, natural mids, highs may or may not be rolled, depends on amp, bass is biggest issue. Bass issue is lack of slam, can be too resonant in some situations. Power supply ... | |
| Vibration control. Tube equipment. What's the best way to do it ? @inna Maple is a harder wood, more dense, tighter grain than the Baltic Birch, resultant sound is less warm. There is no single isolation solution, so many variables, combos of all sorts may get one to final voicing and/or max transparency/res... | |
| What do the statistics say about the age of Audiophiles and the replacement rate? Gate keeping comes from higher end manufacturers and we audiophiles that speak in code and language unknown to the rest of world. We are simply a cult to rest of world. | |
| Are upgraded power cables for subwoofers worth it? Yep, purity of metal is important consideration. This diy design can use any type of wire, I've been most happy with twisted runs of VHAudio AirLock sold core OCC copper, this for hot wire, number of runs depend on use, three runs of 18AWG of this... | |
| «40% Of Audiophiles Are Dying And No One Is Doing Anything About It!» In my younger days I felt the need to have others share in my audiophile enthusiasm and/or share in their enthusiasm, much more social undertaking in those days. Over all those years only a single short lived conversion, and this individual no lon... | |
| I feel for you @waytoomuchstuff I can relate to you on the automotive mods, mine journey began with completely disassembling our riding lawnmower, including engine at age of 12, 13, family discovers this, big trouble, the risk pays off as I get the thing back to... | |
| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? Typical stereotype of audiophile is one who cares more about the equipment than music, and this proven by the value of their music collection vs equipment? Not saying this could be true in some cases, but what about the snobs I see proudly display... | |
| Perhaps the most annoying myth in audio of 2025? Talking about Loudness! Potentiometers are limited by having sweet spot where both channels track most accurately, this generally somewhere between 10am-2pm, they also not greatest resolution/transparency. Resistor ladder, autoformers/transformer volume control has surp... | |
| Vibration control. Tube equipment. What's the best way to do it ? I use any number of solutions depending on voicing I'm looking for. Mostly I use diy sandboxes made from Baltic Birch plywood, various sized up to 20" height for mass loading of my direct drive turntable, various top plates including various depth... | |
| «40% Of Audiophiles Are Dying And No One Is Doing Anything About It!» If one believes in concepts like heaven why would you sweat it, wouldn't your heaven include whatever audio system it would take to provide a wonderful everlasting life. | |
| PLUG AMPLIFIER INTO POWER CONDITIONER OR INTO WALL RECEPTACLE I tried many over the years via lending library at CableCompany, every single one impacted transients to some degree. This vs 20amp 10AWG dedicated line just for amps/subs. Dedicated line to PC same 20amp, 10AWG. At that time I was running Cary SL... | |
| Are upgraded power cables for subwoofers worth it? @jrareform Indeed, you may find relatively unknown cables to be real value, or perhaps not. The diy recipe I use today replaced much more expensive cables from well known manufacturers, depending on materials and length these cable cost between ap... |