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| MintLP/Dynavector 17D3 question My eyes not so hot either. I found laying a white light mini flashlight down on the platter, pointing at stylus helped greatly. | |
| Sandbox-style isolation I should add, every move I've made towards a less compliant plinth and more massive platform has resulted in increased sonics, specifically, much more coherence, solidity, slam and bass articulation. Any compliance sounds smeared and soft.I plan o... | |
| Sandbox-style isolation Dave, the sand should move in both the vertical and horizontal plane as well, It still seems to me a mass loaded design should sit on the most stable platform you can provide, seems some non-sympathetic vibrations would be induced by more complian... | |
| Effects of Power Outages Where You Live My experience mirrors Foster, everytime my PC shuts down my system takes at least a day to sound right. My digital runs 24/7, my preamp standby, and PC transformer wiring drawing current. Think about a hard shutoff, I can imagine a lot of parts ar... | |
| Sandbox-style isolation I can tell you from my own experience the single aluminum plate using the vibration sinks, per Thom's instructions, is superior to the segmented top plates I've tried. More refinement, resolution, more slam, solidity, greater dynamics. Now, I've t... | |
| Effects of Power Outages Where You Live Returns to normal after about 24 hours unplugged. We've had a few outages up here in Michigan as well, I too wonder about how all the new power line equipment affects the sound. I use a power conditioner on everything but the amp so it may be a mo... | |
| I am sick of cables I agree that some of the exotic materials and construction involved in some of the high price cables serve as marketing hype. Still, there are extra costs involved here, now, as to whether those extra costs are reflected in the price. This is wher... | |
| Jethro Tull questions... I have nearly every album on either vinyl, cd or both, can't even remember the sonics since I haven't listened to them in so long. Happy to see this posted, have to include them in this weekend's listening sessions. Its all good, although the earl... | |
| Power Receptacles - Review and Comparison Phillyb,No doubt about the choice of colorations. One other notable difference I've found between the Oyaide GX, R1 and Porter Ports is soundstaging. The Oyaides are more forward in their presentation, the Porter Ports emerge much further behind t... | |
| How Important is Getting Your Rack Out Peter S,I'm sure when Jim Smith refers to longer cabling he's talking about replacing with the same previous shorter length cabling. In which case I do agree. Abruce mentioned going to 'long cheap' cable. I would keep the better cabling and low ce... | |
| I am sick of cables "most expensive cables are not necessarily better." Which means that sometimes they may be! I do agree. | |
| How Important is Getting Your Rack Out I keep my rack in center, multiple racks sitting low so as to not affect imaging, soundstaging. Still, it would be best to not have anything in between. You will lose a lot more with a long cheap interconnect! | |
| Blue Collar Cables? The great debate I've tried a lot of cables over the years, Speltz are the best cost conscious cable I've heard. My problem with them is the lack of shielding, not as good as the higher price spread with shielding. I suspect the lack of shielding is why they sound... | |
| More convinced of analog than ever I agree with Applebook, when you record your vinyl to digital you are getting digital sound. I happen to like digital sound, as well as vinyl, and so I can be happy listening to both. I would never think of giving up my vinyl, the reason I've kept... | |
| Drawer problem in Mark Levinson 39 cd processor I've own both a ML No. 37 and Proceed CDD, both of these transports have had drawer issues from time to time. Right now the CDD doesn't open up completely. I've also heard of many others having issues with ML transports, seems like ML has some iff... |