terry9
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| The use of the word "musical" as an adjective Perhaps PS wants something specific.Listen to Barber's Adagio for Strings, twice, without wincing, once. | |
| Opinion - Every audiophile should build at least 1 pair of speakers I see audiophiles argue over thousands of dollars in speaker cables and interconnects, I think to myself, their opinions and biases about where to spend their time and money would be forever changed if they built but a single pair of speakers. I d... | |
| Directionality of wire @jea48 No, Jea, I didn’t read it - I skimmed a bit, and what little I did read seems to be perfectly covered by Al.Thanks Al. Somebody's got to speak up for science. | |
| Directionality of wire @jea48 Solid. They came off the spool and went to the plating company. No, I did not reverse them. I did not then, nor do I now, expect there to be a perceptible difference.I no longer spend much time on interconnects, for the reasons stated. | |
| Directionality of wire @jea48 Yes also to IC's.Further to the above, I forgot that about 20 years ago, when I saw IC costs going stratospheric, I decided to do an experiment.I built a cabinet for ARC SP10 pre-amp and Nakamichi CR7, which was a Faraday cage. I then noted... | |
| Directionality of wire @jea48 "Just a guess no one has experiment using bare uninsulated wires for ICs or speaker cables."I have. My ESL's are each powered by a mono block. Each ESL has a step up transformer, which must be resistor tuned. I put the resistor externally; ... | |
| A vote for the little guy suppliers @bigkidz "Ever see V-Caps or Vishay resistors or Plitron transformers come stock in any units?"You make a really good point. Perhaps THE point. Why not go to the smallest operator of all? DIY! Satisfaction in the doing, pride in the product, joy i... | |
| Tonearm recommendations Isn't the 208 unsuspended? If so, consider the Trans-Fi air bearing tonearm, which punches far, far above it's weight (and cost). I use two of them, on high class modern turntables. | |
| A vote for the little guy suppliers Small operations, agreed. When feasible.Trans-Fi for air bearing tonearms (which I have), and turntables (which I have not)K & K for transformers (good advice, superb product)AtmaSphere | |
| Soundtracks and Film scores, your favourites "Police" - the film score was the only vinyl recording of Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (#3). One of the most important pieces of modern, serious music, IMO."Rocky Horror", a guilty pleasure. | |
| Inherited 21 piece of vintage McIntosh and need help building a system Almarg nailed it.All you need is a variable AC voltage source, generically called a Variac. And a couple of garage sale speakers to load your amplifiers, or a couple of 50 watt 15 ohm resistors, or better yet, both. Do an initial powerup with the ... | |
| Preamp 6922 tube help I tried quite a few 6922 variants. By FAR the best was early '60's Telefunken specially selected for Hewlett Packard for use in their aerospace test equipment.The boxes bear the HP logo on their seals.I think that these were the last tubes that ... | |
| Directionality of wire @herman Thank you for your considered response. | |
| Directionality of wire @herman Thanks for your input, with which I completely agree, except for "the movement of electrons is the cause when it is the effect". In my view, the two are dual, in the mathematical sense.I guess that comment is intended for you and Al and Ra... | |
| How many LP's @lewm I may have some good news for you. The TransFi is a low pressure system, and works on an aquarium pump, which is virtually maintenance free. No oil, no mess. They are also low noise; perhaps, with a good enough box, quiet enough for the list... |