terry9
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| Never Use HiFi-Exquis - Worst Merchant Ever! Ambiguous, Rod. | |
| What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital? Vinyl, within epsilon of 100%. Can't remember the last time I powered up the Linn SACD player - and it's not even in the main system. | |
| Turntables.....A point of diminishing returns? My experience, in retrospect.Technics direct drive: good enough. 1975Rega 3: Good. A major improvement in every respect. 1985Nottingham Analogue Mentor: Way better. 2000Mentor upgrade to Wave Mechanic power supply: Well worth it. 2010DIY air beari... | |
| Preamp making loud pitched morse code sound RF can appear in several ways. The most obvious is when you turn the volume all the way up with no program material, and hear "Take Five" playing in the background. Another way is just a small loss of detail in the music you are playing. Or anythi... | |
| Trans-Fi Terminator Tonearm: 2019 Update Interesting about the new wand. I don't think that it should work, because the cartridge is not rigidly connected to anything but the plate, which is suspended by O - rings from carbon bars.I say should - but the final word is empirical evidence, ... | |
| Surge protectors and power conditioners - Good idea or bad? Whole house surge protection is a good idea. I also use isolation transformers for expensive electronics. Trouble is that IT can hum when doing their job, so it's best to have them in a utility room. | |
| Preamp making loud pitched morse code sound In a rich RF environment you might consider really quiet cabling as an important part of your system. I suggest using the very best for this purpose, Canare Starquad L-4E6S microphone cable. It may or may not solve your immediate problem, but it s... | |
| Second opinions — how have others (including non-audiophiles) helped you? I'm 70 and still learning to "hear" a good system. When I upgraded to an air bearing turntable I heard an immediate difference, a "loss" of high frequency. It was a day later that I realized that the "high frequency loss" was really a loss of dist... | |
| Trans-Fi Terminator Tonearm: 2019 Update Pz is not really cost effective for the wand. Each one takes hours, would have to charge too much to be friendly. | |
| Trans-Fi Terminator Tonearm: 2019 Update dnicol, I went much the same route. One way I added mass was to put a nickel silver disk (copper alloy: 770?) on top of the cartridge, and tap two holes for cartridge mounts (#3-56). The disk acted as a great big nut for the cartridge screws. But ... | |
| Trans-Fi Terminator Tonearm: 2019 Update @dover 25 cm - what's it for, the Bismarck? (Just being pedantic. Think you mean mm - that's the danger with the metric system, one makes order of magnitude errors).I agree about stability, at least to some extent. But after aging my 19mm for a y... | |
| Trans-Fi Terminator Tonearm: 2019 Update Ledoux, the difference between Baltic birch and Panzerholz is huge. I use both (when I can’t afford Panzerholz) like the sub enclosure for HT. The Panzerholz wand is very rigid; I wasn’t sure if it would need a 7075 aluminum lamination, but it doe... | |
| Cables ... no longer opinion You can think of it as (1) speakers must have low inductance and (2) line level must have low capacitance. The cables and the equipment terminations form LR and RC filters respectively. But it doesn't matter much if lengths are short. | |
| Cables ... no longer opinion Two ribbons placed together is obviously the best for SPEAKER cables. It's an immediate consequence of Maxwell's Equations. Just as two small conductors separated by a significant distance is the best for line level. That's assuming equal dielectr... | |
| Trans-Fi Terminator Tonearm: 2019 Update Well, I take all my reservations back. The Panzerholz wand is very fine indeed with the KRSP.There is no obvious vertical or horizontal resonance from a test record. Maybe it's outside the range, but listening tests do not reveal that either. Not ... |