terry9
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| New to forum and Vinyl Scott, if you like ML, you should also listen to other electrostatics before you buy. Also Magnepans. Not everyone likes the planar sound, but I have never gone back, since I first heard them in 1973. To my ears, it is no contest at anything like ... | |
| A Big DIY Bang for Your Buck? Kavakat, nice experiment.Placing of transducers is an art, I’m told, so don’t be too discouraged if it doesn’t work well the first time. Another issue is power - you need 50W per record, according to the DIY Audio thread, which is also my experien... | |
| A Big DIY Bang for Your Buck? I do quite a lot of DIY, sabai. All my electronics, my turntable, cables, and I also modify speakers and tonearm. It's very satisfying. My Koetsu alone is unmodified.I don't pretend to have the best circuit topology (although it's pretty good), bu... | |
| New to forum and Vinyl A record cleaner is a good idea. First, it makes your records sound better: quieter, more detailed. Second, it reduces stylus wear. Often overlooked, but highly cost effective. | |
| Any electronic modders here at Audiogon? Some good thoughts here.I agree, a good desoldering station and a good soldering station should be your first investments. I would add a good Fluke multimeter to that. And a word of caution: beware of teflon! When teflon gets hot, 260 C, it begins... | |
| What commerical audio system tweaks provide sound quality improvement?? Thanks todd, sunnyjim, and falcon. I was starting to feel a bit lonely. | |
| What commerical audio system tweaks provide sound quality improvement?? Yeah. Right. | |
| What commerical audio system tweaks provide sound quality improvement?? Geoff, you would have to be cleaning ONE outlet, the hot one, with a material that becomes conductive, for one reason or another; e.g. wet with perspiration. That and a path to ground, no matter how elusive or invisible.And Geoff, I did not insult... | |
| What commerical audio system tweaks provide sound quality improvement?? One does NOT need to touch both hot and neutral to get a shock. All that is required is an electrical path from hot to ground. That can happen innumerable ways: damp floor, kid spilling his drink, or any other innocent means of being in contact wi... | |
| What commerical audio system tweaks provide sound quality improvement?? @geoffkait "I never turned off the power prior to cleaning outlets and am fine. I mean except for a slight twitch."Bad advice, Geoff, in my opinion.Perhaps you know enough to do that kind of thing with some safety, but not everyone does. I sugges... | |
| What commerical audio system tweaks provide sound quality improvement?? @geoffkait Make sure you turn off the power at the breaker box before you clean the outlets. PLEASE ! | |
| What commerical audio system tweaks provide sound quality improvement?? These are common on test equipment, which can be influenced by ambient radio noise because input signals can interact on some settings. For audio, not so much, although at the preamp, the tape out RCA's and amplifier RCA's can be connected. In tha... | |
| What commerical audio system tweaks provide sound quality improvement?? Quite right, Todd. I missed room treatment. Mea Culpa. | |
| What commerical audio system tweaks provide sound quality improvement?? Assuming that you have a nice system which you like, you might want to consider the following. I save my money for the physics - that is, if and only if the physics is solid and uncontroversial. Then I have been known to spend real money.Those are... | |
| "on the fly" @folkfreak "Unless you have an incredibly steady hand"Enter the Trans-Fi air bearing tonearm at $1000. VTA adjusts on-the-fly easily and safely. Azimuth and VTF not so, but they are intuitive and stable. |