terry9
Responses from terry9
| Has a Power Conditioner Improved Your Sound? @thelonious527 When installed in my system it seem to roll off the top end. It took the ‘ sparkle ‘ out of the sound . I wonder if that's not the same effect which I have been observing these last 20 years - every time I make a major upgrade,... | |
| Has a Power Conditioner Improved Your Sound? @ghdprentice says, Noise in audio is seldom heard directly… it is not a crackle or something you can focus on. Well said. My experience exactly. | |
| Has a Power Conditioner Improved Your Sound? Isolation transformers sure do. | |
| Aftermarket fuse to tame a bright system? Fuses have a standards-based rating. Manufacturers of electronics rely on these standards to protect their equipment. You can rely on industrial suppliers like Bussmann or Littelfuse or Eaton to deliver product according to the accepted standards.... | |
| Best speaker brands for transient response @audiotroy It seems that you think that cone speakers play louder. OK, we can agree on that. But the OP is talking about transient response. @sunmoon explains why ESL’s do that better than others, excepting plasma. I don’t understand how your st... | |
| Dimond Cantilevers And Tip Mass My Koetsu DC was said to be one-piece, but a photomicrograph seems to show otherwise. In any case, there is no glob of epoxy to be seen - in fact, no evidence of epoxy at all. So, very low mass at the stylus. | |
| Anyone adjust cart set up due to ambient temperature changes? Thank you Mac. I had a vague idea that cartridge and speakers might be happier in a room with a fairly constant temperature, but I didn't realize how important that was. I will take more care starting now. | |
| Do your ears deceive you? The cables question is ill-formed. I would agree that there is a difference between the worst and the best. There are many physical properties to consider: Resistance; Capacitance; Inductance; Dielectric Absorption; RF rejection; connection integ... | |
| Sviatoslav Richter. Greatest pianist of the last century? Give me Gieseking. | |
| The criteria for loudspeaker choices. Note that the Magnepan DWM woofer is also a push-pull design and it is flat right into the treble. It is an absolute wonder with my Quads - especially with a decent mounting platform - the one supplied is more stylish than functional. | |
| Comparison of various subwoofers for 2 channel audio I too am running an ESL system: 2 Quad 2905's and 2 Quad 2805's perpendicular to the 29's (all modified). I am running an isobaric sub with a 50 Hz cutoff, but frankly it doesn't do very much. Almost all of the bass augmentation comes from Magnepa... | |
| Do You Have to Play a Component to Warm it Up? Electronics absolutely. My class A amps need a day at full power, preferably 4. Ditto my phono/pre. Brystons a few hours of idle. Cartridge and speakers 20 minutes of use.. | |
| Holbo airbearing turntable Suggest you practice installing a dirt cheap cartridge a few times. Then graduate to something worthy of the table. | |
| Holbo airbearing turntable Ask the man who owns one. Sounds like everything I like in a turntable - and once you've heard good air, there's no going back. IMO. YMMV. | |
| Holbo airbearing turntable Thanks for the nod, @pindac . But I don’t own a Holbo, I’ve just experimented with some ideas while I built my own air bearing unit. There are several sources of noise, the most important being the bearing and the motor. Also, resonances can aris... |