terry9
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| My All Time Christmas Song Mellnas singing "Oh Holy Night", on Cantata Domino (BIS). | |
| Top 10 Live Albums Joan Baez in Concert, V1 and V2 And on a completely different note, the first full length stereo recording still extant: Beethoven’s 5th piano concerto, The Emperor, performed in Berlin during an air raid, by Gieseking and conducted by Artur Rot... | |
| HOW DID YOU END UP WITH YOUR DREAM SYSTEM? It's hard to credit that a few resistosr can make such a difference - but it does. | |
| HOW DID YOU END UP WITH YOUR DREAM SYSTEM? Well, best components that money can buy. For example, I put a dozen of the best reviewed resistors in a selector switch, and put it in place of the gain resistor. Then chose the best - it was nude Vishay, VAR series, hands down. So every resistor... | |
| HOW DID YOU END UP WITH YOUR DREAM SYSTEM? Incremental steps. Appreciating each piece, upgrading it, seeing the design limitations, and making my own air bearing turntable, tonearm, phono/pre, main amplifiers. I am now making my own ESL's, buying everything off-the-shelf that I can. I tho... | |
| What % Of Your System Are Your Cables? Something less than 1%. And that's with all the electronics DIY (excluding 3 Bryston bass auxiliaries) in an all-vinyl, ESL system. | |
| Wrapping power cords and interconnects with copper foil. Aluminum foil is hard to terminate, copper is easy. Also, not all shields are created equal - it depends on the mass density, and more is better. Canare Starquad is excellent, Mogami is good too, and easier to terminate. I only use the best Canare... | |
| a resonance in my left ear Get to a physician ASAP. If you have an inflammation of the 8th nerve, you have 72 hours to treat it with steroids. That was my problem last year, and treatment was confirmed by an ENT man. | |
| Looking for more advice on purchasing a new turntable. There are different technologies for turntables: idler wheel drive, belt drive, and direct drive. They sound different. I like belt drive - I gave away my last DD. I now have two turntables, a DIY air bearing turntable / tonearm combination (whic... | |
| Truly Stunning Vinyl Album Sorry, @phillyspecial, a typo. Laudate on the Proprius label (brown cover) is wonderful but relatively obscure sacred music with wonderful accompaniment for organ. The Christmas music is Cantate Domino, also on Proprius. The soprano, Mellnas, ha... | |
| Canare 4S11G OFC Speaker Cables, An Incredible Audio Bargain Now try Canare L-4E6S microphone cables for interconnect. I use Eichmann or WBT RCA’s or Neutrik XLR, but L-4E6S is a bear to terminate. Works for me - in a higher end system. YMMV. | |
| Does anyone on AG truly care anymore about objectivity & sincerity of Magazine reviews? @moonwatcher "this isn't the forum for it" So why bring it up? Leave your politics at home. This is an audio forum. | |
| Does anyone on AG truly care anymore about objectivity & sincerity of Magazine reviews? @moonwatcher Interesting jump from journalists to scientists. Stopped reading there. By the way, the term "climate change" was coined by George Bush the second. How 'bout it - you believe in Bush-called "climate change" now? | |
| Audiophile Surge Suppressor (and nothing else) @whart Quite right. I have two bare isolation transformers for most gear, and the main audio power supply also has it's own. The electrical inspector who came to inspect it remarked that it was the cleanest power he'd seen since working in a hyd... | |
| Audiophile Surge Suppressor (and nothing else) I second Trpplite. I've used their surge suppressors for years, after a whole-house unit at the breaker box. Make sure to follow through on your excellent idea of metal boxes, because T sells both metal and plastic. ALL electronics in my house ar... |