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| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Anyone else think that dd and calvin should move their lovefest to a private chatroom? It's getting pretty deep in here. And unless I'm totally confused about how audio works, no one can tell what these cables "sound like" by wading through 38 pag... | |
| Stylus bent - AT120E/T, Technics 1200 It looks to me like your cantilever is deflected to the outside. Is this also true when the stylus is NOT in the groove? If yes, then the cantilever is bent and at that price point, not worth trying to find a repair source. You can buy a new stylu... | |
| dumb question, streaming music to a preamp? No idea of sound quality but this seems like it will do what you want and costs $130 via Amazon "Grace Digital GDI-IRDT200 Hi-Fi Internet Radio Tuner". It has wireless and ethernet jacks, digital out on toslink and coax, and analog out on RCA jack... | |
| Can 12awg speaker wire be mixed with other sizes? Yes you can. | |
| All my amps have left speaker out?? One thing you might want to be very careful about is that the speaker wires at the left speaker end are not touching or any other condition that might be causing a short downstream of the amp on the left side. A long shot but if they amps were swa... | |
| Purchasing One of the problems with buying from Canada is the very slow and expensive shipping via Canada Post, UPS or Fedex with possible customs brokerage fees added on in some cases as well. From Thailand I suspect the concerns are possible scammers and v... | |
| Do wooden arms warp Geoff- if you look at the graph in the appendix of that paper, you will see that the temperature vs humidity effect is acconted for and when you extrapolate back to 0% relative humidity you can see that the maximum 45 minute tolerable temp is a ta... | |
| Do wooden arms warp Geoffkait- I was originally trained as a biologist and I'm a pretty good cook, so my bull$hit detector went off big time. Apparently the high temps cooked your friend's brain;-). It took about 5 millisec for Google to find the actual test results ... | |
| Do wooden arms warp Ilikmangos- thx for bringing some real world experience to this discussion. | |
| Do wooden arms warp And that's why I'm not an engineer, Al ;-) The actual verbiage copied from AT's web site is "Line Contact tips are also known as Shibata, providing a contact surface between 50 and 75 μm2". ZYX web site shows following spec:3micro m x 60micro mw... | |
| Do wooden arms warp Tonyw- 300-400 psi seemed awfully low so I did the math. Someone please check it for me, but here is how I did the calculation:According to Audio-technica's cartridge glossary @ http://eu.audio-technica.com/en/products/cartridges/glossary.asp#micr... | |
| Do wooden arms warp I am but lowly wetland scientist, not a material scientist, but after some initial skepticism, I am now quite convinced by both theoretical and empirical evidence that wood's "instability" need not automatically disqualify it from being used in a ... | |
| Do wooden arms warp Tonywinsc- Try reading what Vetterone wrote again, s l o w l yIf there were better available, I would be using it. It certainly would cost less and save many hours to make a metal armwand than a properly prepared wood armwand.Oh wait, I wouldn't w... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz special no resistance breakersWow, no resistance breakers!!!! I gotta get me some o 'dem to use in my perpetual motion machine ;-) Oh, wait, the cost for the liquid helium to maintain the breakers at the -400 degrees F (yes, -4 hundred F) temps ne... | |
| Would vinyl even be invented today? If I had to guess, I'd say ol Al rocks out to mp3s pushed through his bose wave ;-) |