subaruguru
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| 47 Labs GAINCARD, does it live up to the hype? Just bumped into Elliott at sound.au.com See his review/assessment of the Gaincard for another perspective. | |
| Add a DAC or buy a new CD player? My situation mirrors yours, and the advice of Elizabeth et al is pertinent. MY Rotel 855 sounds wonderfully rhythmic and taut with my new high-rez (Pass Aleph P) preamp, but woefully grainy and etched on top. My first demo of the BelCanto w/DVD wa... | |
| Replacing my tweeters a good idea? Let's not overcomplicate this, guys....SPECIFICALLY: adding a small resistance in series with the tweeter will possibly slightly RAISE the system's crossover frequency, which would allow the tweeter to run even further away from its primary resona... | |
| CDP isolation options for improved HF? Aurios? What are they? Sorry...only remember the homonyms--awfully good with milk! Seriously, where do I find out about them? Thanks. | |
| prevent hardening of speaker surrounds Stiffness (compliance) of a surround will partially determine the speaker's primary resonance (Fs), so it stands that altering the surround will possibly shift its resonance. It's my understanding that Armorall is a monomer dispersed in an aqueous... | |
| Shelf Material I'm going to try one of Caterham's Neuance shelves under my CDP as soon as it gets here, and hope it clarifies the top octave without changing spectral balance. Mark (Redkiwi)...I'm not sure how a suspension would be very different from an air bla... | |
| Question from a Poor Pass owner Interesting, Sean. I had asked Pass Labs how the ADCOM preamp Nelson designed compared to his Aleph P, and was assured that since Pass had no control over the engineering and manufacture of the pre they doubt it'd sound comparable. I bought a used... | |
| Replacing my tweeters a good idea? Trelja...I couldn't have said it better. Bryhifi...I spent two grand on power tools, bought 3 or 4 20 foot sections of PVC water pipe, and built a pretty cool cylindrical 3-way using SEAS 5 mid and 0.75 plastic dome, with Peerless 8 down-firing wo... | |
| Replacing my tweeters a good idea? Just splice the resistor into one of the leads to the tweeter; positive or negative won't matter. You could use an 8 ohm pot temporarily to get the exact value you like, then buy a fixed resistor of that value. If you still can't get it right I'll... | |
| Question from a Poor Pass owner Peter @ PassLabs...didn't you tell me that Nelson said his Alephs stabilize acoustically after only five minutes? (And to NOT bother with power cord upgrade?) Hmmm... Owners report anywhere from 20 minutes up to...phew--TWO DAYS (?), with most say... | |
| Best Speaker Wire & Tube Pre for Aleph 3 Why a tube pre? The Alephs have a very low input impedence, making preamp-mating tricky. Pass Labs reports mixed results with the Audible Illusions Modulus 3. I punted by chasing a used Aleph P($1850), and string'em with fast Nordost Red Dawn IC a... | |
| Shelf Material High Young's modulus and low mass.... hmmm...doesn't that describe sitka spruce, universally used for piano soundboards?...and guitars, etc.? Whereas I'm tending to agree with these requirements, the additional critical requirement is that this wo... | |
| Worst Audio Injury !! Subwoofer accident? Sort of... and with sincere apology to Tubegroover: As a teenager in the late 60s I traveled around northern Rhode Island playing baroque organ at wonderful French Canadian churches sporting huge 4 and 5 rank organs (mostly mad... | |
| Worst Audio Injury !! You guys are too much! Two memories surface: When I was around 12 (ca. 1964) I remember installing a tone control in an old 5 tube non-transformered table radio, and, not having disconnected it from the AC, carefully applied the old "keep one arm ... | |
| The best and worst Audiogon poster's "... we share similar taste in power cords..." My God, is there again better proof of why this hobby doesn't have any women in it! Keep smiling, guys. |