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| 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... | |
| Can anyone explain in laymans terms why your gear sound better after warm up Some components operate at their peak performance at a specific stabilized temperature. The same way an athlete warms up prior to competition or exercise. | |
| Can I cheat and not get caught? Do you own a dremel? | |
| homemade turntable vibration isolation platform I had to look up what a "yurt" was and based on google's response, I could only imagine that equipment isolation is only one of your system challenges. | |
| Power amps with fans -- maintenance? Frequent cleaning of the fan will promote a longer life. The fan blades become unbalanced when loaded with debris and will put undo stress on the bearings. On older equipment, you can replace the fans with better and lower noise fans for very litt... | |
| Old Legendary tubes vs New Kids on the block Amperex/Siemens/Tele vs Psvane/TAD/Shugaung Aren't Psvane and Shugaung the same OEM manufacturer? You can read the history of Psvane here:http://psvanetube.com/site/who-is-psvane/ | |
| Old Legendary tubes vs New Kids on the block Amperex/Siemens/Tele vs Psvane/TAD/Shugaung All today's expensive tube gear (ARC, McIntosh, Luxman, Jadis, CJ ...) come with current production tubes! That is due to the fact that manufactures need a source of currently available reliable tubes. People seek NOS to fine tube their equipmen... | |
| PSA: Be Careful Dealing With Uptone Audio I can appreciate both sides of the story. In spike of initial good intentions expressed and demonstrated by both parties, sometimes things just don't work out. I think that this is the case in this instance. | |
| Audio Research Ref 6 SE I always thought that a company's "reference series" of products was their best effort. It would appear that this is not the case with ARC. As soon as ARC releases a new Ref X component it is followed up with a SE model which implies they could... | |
| fair complaint about Audiogon, violating no guidelines, removed Audiogon is a privately held company...their rules. |