t_bone
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| Modest/Simple System Building Help Wanted... I recently built a second system which I enjoy very much. If you find Thiels to be annoying at the high end, this kind of system cures that because it is a bit rolled off (I'll be working to fix that over the next several months on my system after... | |
| Any idea where to find Micro Seiki tonearm parts? The counterweights or their replacements are occasionally available in Japan. I'd have thought a 'NOS original armpipe screw' would be impossible to find, but could probably be replaced with another '3rd party' screw. I will take a look around for... | |
| LP eccentricity, spindle hole center,The fix?????? There was also the Nakamichi TX1000 (the CT's bigger brother I thought). I believe it is more easily solved using a method like you describe, though that requires a 'virtual spindle' rather than a real one, and some kind of ranging apparatus. As y... | |
| SET vs OTL Atmasphere,Paul's last question is one I share - does the phase splitter itself ever create distortion issues (i.e. something like 'hysteresis') when the signal is re-merged? Second, I have always had questions about 'parallel' SET circuits, and w... | |
| Slowest played Goldberg Variation There was a string trio version of it which was played quite slowly. It came out a few years ago on two discs and it was almost 90mins I think. I don't have a copy but have heard the first disc. | |
| Audio Tekne top end gear? Thanks. I agree that the Audio Tekne gear is similar in spirit to Allnic - the other "all-nickel" transformer gear which appears to use transformer coupling extensively in pres and phono stages. I don't much about the Shindo and Doshi - certainly ... | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? 1) 2001 Mitsubishi Pajero TDI2) 2001 Mitsubishi Pajero TDI 3) a) Ferrari 410 Superamerica b) ~1930s long-wheelbased Bentley 8-liter from a good chassis-builder | |
| SET vs OTL With regard to your follow-on post, several of the extant OTL mfrs offer higher-power OTL-topology amplifiers - many of them a LOT more than 3W. If OTL is what floats your boat, it can be found with enough power to drive somewhat insensitive speak... | |
| SET vs OTL The guy perhaps most equipped to answer questions about OTL is Ralph of Atma-sphere (apologies to you other lurking OTL experts), who sometimes finds the time to post on Audiogon. Until he gets here, I will attempt to not embarrass myself unduly.S... | |
| Beginners guide to tube audiio. A primer for what the terms are or a primer on textbook on circuit design? | |
| Beginners guide to tube audiio. Rhanechak, as you might have gleaned from the responses, there may be some confusion as to what you are looking to achieve. The Sonic Frontiers "A Taste of Tubes" is here. It is a good primer to what tubes are and what they do.A cool guide to vacu... | |
| High End system sounding Terrible???? I think your first bet is to follow the advice of onemug. Oftentimes, the set between HT receiver and sub limits the sub's output to x.1st channel, and in 2ch, it is left out, which will, as Shadorne notes, produce an imbalance like what you seem ... | |
| Can you Analyze this? Mb9061, take a walk over to the Bottlehead forum on Audioasylum and search for posts with the word "gin" in them. A couple of gents there infuse their own gin, using cheap vodka as a starter (filter it through a Brita water filter several times an... | |
| best 'affordable' turntable with moving coil cart While I personally would lean to an older table (and that includes the older Denons), I can't argue with the rationale of going with a Technics 1210 (if you can stomach the looks). OTOH, if you want the 'upgraded version' like Johnnyb53 recommends... | |
| Top ten DD turntables of all time? What does the Denon DP-80 give up to other tables? Not a huge amount after it has been re-plinthed, put on a magnetic flotation isolation platform, and set up with a good arm. It has better sound than the PL-7L, but it should. The PL-7L is "newer"... |