stevecham
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? +1 for Mutations! | |
| A way to listen to a large collection This is an enjoyable and worthwhile practice when I want to listen but just don't have a craving for any piece of music or musicans in particular.+1 | |
| How is the EAR 843P Deluxe vs. Modern phono preamps? Yeah, that's really helpful. Was it supposed to be funny too? | |
| When your hearing is not very good...... From my listening position, I keep it at no more than 80 dB SPL on the peaks, and usually around 70-75 dB SPL average, using a Radio Shack digital SPL meter. Above 80 and hearing damage begins. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Emerson, Lake & PalmerTarkus - ELPEmerson, Lake & PowellManoeuvres - Greg LakeRadio Kaos - Roger Waters | |
| Have cartridges been known to fail (Grado)? Like too high a VTF is where I'd start...do you have a scale? | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? Apriori, cables MUST matter because 1) there is an industry with many entrant manufacturers and dealers 2) there are many customers of these products and 3) the interest level at times to discuss this very topic outweighs the very activity of list... | |
| Coda Audio Video based in San Francisco is running a fraudulent operation By the way they were never BBB accredited. | |
| How is the EAR 843P Deluxe vs. Modern phono preamps? It is indeed a classic and has a wonderful tube sound. Noise floor is non-existent and it has plenty of gain. For the money I personally don’t think you can do better for a tube phono stage. I used to have the dual deluxe MM/MC version but (unfort... | |
| Mytek Brooklyn DAC+ or Schiit Yggdrasil? I have a Wyred 4 Sound DAC 2SE and wouldn’t consider anything else. Several years ago I had it upgraded by W4S with improved caps, components and femto clock which puts the jitter down into the "don’t even worry about it" zone. Plus, it sounds ver... | |
| Another basic newbie question. As long as the emotional impact of the music exceeds your attention to the equipment that provides it, you'll be ok. | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? cd318: yes, and so perhaps begs the question, what is the critical area of coverage required by cameras everywhere to lay this one to rest, permanently?Kinda like cables really make a difference...guess we should use microphones everywhere too..ex... | |
| speaker capacitors-----leave alone or does it open pandora's box ? Water and air are the best life sustainers, period. | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? Interesting how the "U" remains, after all this time, in the term UFO.But in this ever emerging world of Orwellian doubleplusgoodspeak, I wouldn’t be surprised if that term got turned upside down too.Personally, I’d like to believe in UFOs and hav... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? amg56:The OP asked simply, "Do cables really matter?"My answer is 100% subjective from long experience. I don’t need to qualify anything quantitatively. This is my personal opinion and my long term investments in equipment and software over many y... |