terry9
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| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum From 09:01, on the 12th, "Pampas grass can make a great tonearm wand. Ugly yes - I’m working on that." Sorry for sharing my prototypes, but I thought others might be interested. | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum Depends on your aesthetic. If looking pretty concerns you most, then pretty you will have, but performance will be hit and miss - a commonplace in the audio world. If, however, sounding good concerns you most, you will start with good sound and ev... | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum @pindac Thank you for the kind words. And far more, thank you for your thoughtful suggestions. I am running a linear tracker, so the horizontal effective mass is the mass of the whole assembly. This is about 200 g - the mass of the air bushing a... | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum @mijostyn You don't understand. It's a proof of concept. In any case, it's a triangular prism, not a cylinder. | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum @jperry Please post a picture here or on your system page. Thanks. Done. Panzerholz and Pampas grass. | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum Sort of. Several stalks bonded together with elasomeric glue with an orthogonal epoxy laminate. Lacking resonance altogether and stiff as carbon fibre epoxy. The exotic high-tech wands look rather primitive to me now. | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum @mulveling My wife gave me an Epoch 3 for the last birthday, and I can say that it’s better in every respect than my diamond rosewood (out of the box vs 1400 hours with minimal wear at 1000). Tonearm wands pampas grass and panzerholz, respectively... | |
| After a long, long sleep: ML-335 True, nothing like ESL's. | |
| After a long, long sleep: ML-335 Good point, @surfmuz , dust and wildlife can be a problem. But if it's been sitting in its box, perhaps less of an issue. I would not risk an exploding electrolytic in a high value classic, but YMMV. | |
| Why whole house surge protectors are not enough Just to lower the tone for a moment, I did a trip around the house and found that two of my surge suppressors were no longer suppressing anything. One replaced, one on order. Goes to show - some attention required. | |
| After a long, long sleep: ML-335 Just an amateur, but I've been doing this for 20 years. Actually, electrolytics usually go bad with heat, not use. They dry out. So, the power supply for my main amps is located in another room, a cool one, with all electrolytic caps well below al... | |
| After a long, long sleep: ML-335 25+ years without power? Potential big trouble. If it were mine, and I was short of cash, I’d pull the big caps and power them up one by one, very carefully with a variac, as @gs5556 suggested. And I’d put them inside a metal box beforehand - big... | |
| Costliest Brainfart I was comparing several amps, had them sitting of the floor. One was a big monster with a bare aluminum chassis, and another a big Bryston. Was playing something a bit loud through the Bryston when I shifted it just a bit - plastering both termina... | |
| Thank You Fumihiko Sugano and Koetsu RIP Fumihiko-san. Thank you for the diamond rosewood. I've only had the one Koetsu, and it's always been stellar. | |
| How is Quality and Customer Service defined in the 21st Century? Bryston is tops for both quality and support, IME. A couple of years ago I called the factory to ask about a refurbished amp for my isobaric sub, and they put on the president!!!! He suggested a 20 year old design, recently refurbished. He warned ... |