sokogear
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| Vibration - What are the Main Sources? @pauly- sorry for the confusion, phono stages and amps have vibrations in capacitors for example, and I meant to say coupling them to the base can transform them out, AND isolating the boxes is beneficial in keeping the external vibrations out, as... | |
| How much difference does a phono preamp really make? I would recommend adding Sutherland to your list of phono stages. Dead quiet solid state. He has 2 models that list for $1400. It is all he does and has lots of models at diffferent price points that do different things. One is meant for very low ... | |
| Noise floors When the stereo is on at a decent volume, as MC says, the ambient noise is not audible unless it is something very loud, like HVAC and maybe an old running dishwasher. I have a fish tank whose filter you can hear if you listen, but it is not audib... | |
| Vibration - What are the Main Sources? @pauly - speakers generate internal vibrations from their drivers moving and push vibrations to the floor vibrating everything. That is why you want to isolate them and take the vibrations out of the cabinets. Most good speakers either come with s... | |
| Lay Off the Newbies! Blovated - sorry fo the spell check. | |
| Lay Off the Newbies! Why do you like Rega cartridges?Just because they fit easily?I am a Rega fan, and appreciate its simplicity, quality and fantastic value, gimbal arms, etc. but would not use their cartridges. If someone posing a question is buying or has bought a ... | |
| Nicks or McVie..... Both are great, McVie obviously less celebrated.IMHO no one can match Linda Ronstadt's energy, quality and excellence in different types of songs and music. Not a bad looker either....I regret never having seen her live and really am sorry she has... | |
| Manufacturers past their heyday B&K | |
| What do $2500 speaker cables sound like? And most are somewhere in the middle. We know they make s difference, considering the law if diminishing returns,and listen to music and appreciate how good it sounds and when it gets better. Of course it’s a journey, because it can always get bet... | |
| Stacking gear no more rack space does it affect sound quality Components vibrate internally and that transfers outside the boxes - stacking them adds to each other's vibrations synergistically. Even phono stages vibrate, and because they deal with tiny signals, even small vibrations impacting them are detrim... | |
| Sota or Technics So @mijostyn - you are of the opinion that a moving wire (interconnect or speaker cable) while the music is playing doesn't change the sound? According two AJ van den Hul it does as per his excellent white paper under FAQ on his web site. I am not... | |
| My Apologies to Miller Carbon Who is MDS? | |
| Sota or Technics @lewm - 2 pieces of stereo equipment may have the same (commonly quoted) specs but sound different when measured by @mijostyn and his sophisticated diagnostic tools and methods. Also, when specs ate measured, it may be under different confitions o... | |
| Sota or Technics Isn’t a fuse just functioning as an on/off “switch” if you will? I doubt I could hear a difference, but according to the authorized repair guy for my Plinius amp, if your system is resolving enough, you can hear a small effect, that may or may not... | |
| Sota or Technics I guess if you can hear it, there is some way to measure it. That would mean that if you can’t measure it you can’t hear it. Thats where the major arguments were brewing with the SR camp and the measuring camp a few weeks ago that got pretty inten... |