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| Insurance values My buddy wanted to insure his record collection and was told by his insurance company that he would require a professional appraisal to establish the insurable value. IIRC, the appraisal was quite costly and required updating at the insurance com... | |
| Audio Research Ref 10 vs 40th Anniversary preamp My buddy owns the 5SE and has a dealer demo ARC 6. In his system, I have a VERY hard time telling the difference between the two pre-amps. Perhaps a longer time with each would reveal the subtleties. He loves his 5SE and was hoping for more of the... | |
| Monoblock power amps same dedicated outlet? The guys at Reno HiFi told me that Pass Lab amplifiers do not employ a ground reference at the speaker terminal which makes them "less" susceptible to ground loops. Therefore, if you are running the big Pass mono block amplifiers, they recomme... | |
| Charisma Audio Cartridges Charisma Audio is a very small Canadian cartridge manufacturer, therefore, there may not be a lot of samples in use. | |
| Insurance values My understanding is that if your policy is for replacement value, you base the insured value on a similar item available today. I would consult your insurance broker to make sure, since that is his/her job. | |
| Can anyone explain in laymans terms why your gear sound better after warm up >>>>Do you have an explanation for demagnetizing CDs, too? I’m interested in both. Demagnetizing stretches the O and I so they can be more easily read as 0 and 1 | |
| Perfect Path Solutions Total Contact Mega Review Has anyone compared TC with Stabilant 22? | |
| Which Preamp Would You Choose? @adg01 The SF Line 1 with Sovtek or new production tubes is not what I would call SS or if so it’s very good SS, but again I would not go there. You are right, I didn’t mean to imply that all SS pre amps are poor sounding. What I was trying to con... | |
| PSA: Be Careful Dealing With Uptone Audio I am not sure that the credit card company will side with the buyer as long as he has the replacement LPS-1.2 in his procession. | |
| Has anyone tried Brass cartridge mounting screws? @bdp24 wrote I’m with @best-groove: brass is too soft. Are you having an issue with the brass threads stripping or do you not like the sound of brass bolts? | |
| Which Preamp Would You Choose? Have you listened to a Sonic Frontiers?? The most solid state sounding tubed preamp made. I would expand my search. | |
| Has anyone tried Brass cartridge mounting screws? From Reference 3A's website " Driver frames are fastened with softer metal brass screws to avoid resonance noise potentially generated by similarly hard metals" Perhaps that theory holds true for cartridge bolts. | |
| Subwoofers is 5 is the Magic number? IME if you cross over subs at 60hz or higher, running them in stereo will benefit the sound stage assuming that the subs are place in a complimentary arrangement with the main speakers. Very Low frequencies are typically summed into mono during t... | |
| Do you prefer tidy room to messy one with better sound? I think that we would all agree that no one appreciates a "messy" room, as messy implies untidy, dirty, and items oriented in a nonsensical manner. In a common living area, I appreciate a more minimalist approach and in some instance, style and d... | |
| Can anyone explain in laymans terms why your gear sound better after warm up Resistance and capacitance are some of the electrical properties that change with temperature. For the electronic equipment to be able to properly measure and provide accurate and consistent results, these instruments must warm up and stabilize... |