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| Speaker Positioning Here is the Cardas calculator that’s mentioned.http://www.cardas.com/room_setup_calculators.phpNot ideal for a living space since you will be placing speakers out in the room. Naturally, your ears will tell you what sounds best, but it does give y... | |
| A new way of adjusting anti skate! No thanks. If obsession drove me to buy something like that, I would hope family and friends would hold an intervention. | |
| What are the best tuners each company has made, and how you started? I haven't had the privilege to own the mighty REL Precedent, but one day? I had the opportunity to hear one just once! It lives up to the hype.https://pitchperfectaudio.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/setting-a-precedent/Not known to many outside the tu... | |
| Mo-fi Ultradeck owners - popping noise from speaker upon power off You found the fix. You always make sure the volume is down when powering off. I wouldn't obsess about it. Probably some weird electronic switch thingamajig phenomena.If you like it otherwise, enjoy it. I demoed one just as it was introduced. Nice ... | |
| Excess speaker wire See the danger of this forum...If you didn't read it, you would have been fine. You're damaged. | |
| Questions that Never Die To fuse or not to fuse?Adding a subwooferReissue vs original LP's | |
| The value of a good FM tuner?......, now and in the future... I can't imagine not being able to tune in the Classical or Jazz PBS stations on my Mac MR71. I do miss 70's R&R stations playing complete LP sides.Obviously streaming is superior regarding choices, but it won't have the magic tube sound of a 5... | |
| the dreaded breaking of tonearm wire...now what? With 13 years passing, the OP hopefully has mastered cartridge mounting, along with upgrading to the big leagues in turntable madness. | |
| Why is black so popular for components? Simple-cheaper for manufacturing. | |
| Best ultrasonic lp cleaner in 2020 and what surfactant best? "I then dry the record with my Nitty Gritty record vacuum and you are good to go."If you get good results, great. But the fact you're STILL using the Nitty Gritty AFTER the ridiculous regime(based on the video) seems a little much.I'm holding my b... | |
| Audio Research preamps EXCESSIVE OPERATING COSTS Weird thread. Is this that new "what's the deal with ARC" complaint forum?Buy tube gear to listen to music. SS does just fine for explosions and special effects along with marathon viewing as mentioned. | |
| Unbelievable 3-D imaging sound "I like them more like 3 feet minimum, to preferably 6 feet or more from the back wall."Perhaps they are in a living space, with constraints?I would have those out somewhere between 4-6ft out as well. A pair of subs would be on the list too!Since ... | |
| Cartridge reliability Outside of a particular arm compatibility- the Audio Technica ART9 has a following here. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/pani-new-art-9-up-and-running?highlight=art%2B9There may some Linn owners commenting. I haven't seen any ART9 complaint... | |
| Cartridge reliability Based on your post, you're overthinking it. All brands have a bad experience or two from users. Most brands will have some degree of warranty to cover unexpected failure. | |
| 3 for 10 "The XLO CD demagnetizing tracks."I could be missing something I wasn't aware of! All my audio OCD is used up with record playback thankfully. I haven't gotten around to the marker tweak yet. The budget R2R DAC does wonders. |