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Regarding DK Design Vs.1 Reference Mk2 amp ???
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Regarding DK Design Vs.1 Reference Mk2 amp ???
Barney Fife will be returning from his nightly patrol very shortly.He's the man! I know he would instinctively know how to handle such a situation.Tom 
Regarding DK Design Vs.1 Reference Mk2 amp ???
Well golly gee willikers there has to be a underlying meaning and intent to what Mr Staples just proposed. How dare he try to win back control, of the marketing of his very own company.Tom 
Record Damage and Conical and Shibata Styluses
JVC or Japan Victor Corporation were one in the same. The Victor comes from RCA. JVC in the late 60's and up was an R/D arm for many companies including RCA and Panasonic. Seed money came from both of these players.Tom 
Record Damage and Conical and Shibata Styluses
Stylus chatter within the goove wall can be caused by many things including stylus playback type and original cutter head geometry. Shibata also claimed that his stylus geometry would playback virgin vinyl that was untouched in previous play while... 
Anyone ever us V Caps capacitors in Amps?
While this has nothing to do with V Caps which I have heard are some of the finest available it does have to do with capacitor breakin. I have a very fine solid state amp very simple in circuit path and made with extremely fine parts. There has re... 
Talisman II cartridge by Sumiko
There was a review by John Nork from the Absolute Sound some years back..probably mid 80's. The Talisman was very popular back then I opted for the Accuphase AC1 instead..Tom 
Isolation Devices, Something to put on top of unit
The company I own offers custom installation and design services of audio and video products for home, office and schools as well as houses of worship.We offers products from maybe a hundred different vendors made of many different materials from ... 
Isolation Devices, Something to put on top of unit
Use any product you want that you think may direct couple.Let's see I use long hair carded wool that decouples I use products from Dyna Mat that decouple I buy 360 brass for chassis and brass hardware for mounting of components 2023 aircraft alumi... 
Isolation Devices, Something to put on top of unit
Matrix the most important thing is to provide one coherent directional surface for vibration to collect and exit. Having multiple exit points makes for less coherence instead of more coherence.That is the result I hear.Tom 
Isolation Devices, Something to put on top of unit
When properly grounded mechanically you want to provide only one surface for vibration to exit. By having something on top you are disrupting the energy flow at the bottom of the chassis which can be grounded more easily and effectively. If you ar... 
Absorption or diffusion????
Gsselling first thing I would do is to direct couple your TV to the surface it now rests on. I try to do this in most custom installs that I do.You need to do this as a base line before you try any other experiment . You have a giant resonator in ... 
Richard Green room tune?
How to raise the volumetric efficiency of your sound room? This is the question we need to ponder and to ask ourselves and engage and to resolve. Knee jerk reation is to tame to kill..Sounds like alot of other bad shit happening.Thats another phys... 
Richard Green room tune?
Why not redirect energy? Energy is hard to come by and is gone in an instant.Why do we try to tame the wild, with all the resources we generate, and then expend, in trying to capture the energy to be diminished..Its dynamic, don't let it go, use i... 
Room Acoustics Corner Problems
Randell try to create as much symmetry in the hard structure of the room. What happens on the left should be the same on the right so goes the front and the back. If you add an angle then I would add another, not just for aesthetics but for acoust...