terry9
Responses from terry9
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? Planars just sound more realistic to my ears. If they need power, so be it. | |
| Do you trust your ears more than measurements? @hilde45 , @decooney Well said, both of you. | |
| Best investment; cartridge or line stage? Thank you for clarifying, Elliot, but can't say that I agree with you on much of that. | |
| Best investment; cartridge or line stage? @elliottbnewcombjr "don’t even listen to inefficient speakers if you know what’s good for you" I suspect that what you mean is, "Some are so good that you will fall in love," like ESL's or Magnepans. But some could take your words as dismissive. ... | |
| Best investment; cartridge or line stage? @milo0812 Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water ... Another county heard from. Everyone hears differently. I think that you should listen to other systems and other components as much as possible - but you already knew that.... | |
| Best investment; cartridge or line stage? @thecarpathian Thank you for the kind words. Most courteous. Made some parts, subcontracted others. Turntable and tonearm, all my designs, my fabrication, subcontract much of the woodwork. The latest wands are natural fibre composites, for whic... | |
| Best investment; cartridge or line stage? @dogberry With my cash on the line, I did. In fact, since I couldn’t afford the best, I made it myself: turntable, tonearm, phono stage. Not the cartridges (Koetsu, Grado). Don’t see why someone else shouldn’t benefit from my mistakes. Or from t... | |
| Best investment; cartridge or line stage? Glad to help. Since we are agreed that only a very good tonearm can hold a cartridge at the correct angles, it is essential for that tonearm to be adjustable in order to optimize the cartridge that you have (now or in the future). In particular: ... | |
| Best investment; cartridge or line stage? Bear in mind that cartridges wear out. Everything else, not so much. Ralph is of course, correct: no cartridge will sound its best unless it is held at exactly the right angles. Only a very good tonearm can do this. And only a very good TT is quie... | |
| Kids, Dogs, and Speakers @knock1 makes two good points. He gives you a path to choosing any speaker you want, by using a custom platform. You could have a cabinet making or wood milling shop prepare some heavy hardwood platforms that would look absolutely glorious. Then ... | |
| Amp — Leave on or turn off RV, I have repeated your experiment a number of times with the same results. On longer always sounds better, but with diminishing returns, for about a week. Its’s true of my DIY phono/pre - it’s on all the time. It’s true of my DIY Class A amps (... | |
| Upgrade My Turntable - How Much Do I Need to Spend? @pindac Should have cited you. See above. | |
| Upgrade My Turntable - How Much Do I Need to Spend? I appreciate that it might be difficult to accept that isolation does not matter in my case, and so might not matter in other cases - but - (1) I just made an azimuth adjustment of 5 minutes of arc, and now can hear no reliable difference +/- 2 m... | |
| Upgrade My Turntable - How Much Do I Need to Spend? About isolation. Another opinion. It depends on where you live and where your turntable will go. I live far from main roads, far from rail, my foundation is on granite, and my TT connects directly to the foundation. I don't need isolation - you m... | |
| Smaller plug-in AC Purifiers -- Shunyata, iFi, Puron...something else? What do you like? An isolation transformer beats the lot - but it's pricy, and not that convenient. |