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How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre
No sense for mechanical grounding of hard materials or impedance matching of materials? No progression in 65 years? Just a closed book? Tom 
How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre
Norm I am describing how I use 4 shelf points under my transport and 4 shelf points under my preamp all having the tip facing up at the bottom of the chassis. A user could place many more under a component if there was a benefit heard or the space... 
How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre
Norm,I use 2 Back Stage Platforms in my personal system and do so successfully with 4 Audio Points and discs on each, under my main source and my preamp. Both these platforms are direct coupled to the floor that's underneath the berber carpet and ... 
How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre
The questions should be. How many mechanical improvements can be made to a 65 year old Scully lathe? Tom 
How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre
Wonder how the tone of a string instrument would be affected if a small section of sorbothane was placed on the soundboard and the strings were plucked? Tom 
How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre
Easy to A/B platforms ...suggested many times over many years to many reviewers. Tom 
Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD
Pass had this patent since expired and copied and changed by others..only 25 years have pass-ed.Active low frequency acoustic resonance suppressor. www.google.com/patents/US4899387 Filed 1988 granted 1990Also change the 90 degree angles all around... 
How an audio rack can enhance your amp/pre
I have been rebuilding my mono amps for some time now finally have them completed. I have mechanically direct coupled all the components. These include the transformer all filter caps including the mains and the new Clarity Cap TC's that supply th... 
StarSound Sistrum racks
I made that same suggestion 15 years ago to 2 reviewers.I suggested using platforms..2 at a time either for source and preamp, speaker pairs or mono amps. Easy and fast..they don't want to short change their pocket books by publishing the outcome.... 
When is digital going to get the soul of music?
Geoff wrote.When a person dies he weighs 0.00044 ounces lighter as measured with an atomic scale. That's the mass of his soul.Probably the contents of the lungs that was their last breath.Tom 
Brass screws make a real difference on Dunlavy s ?
If you cut all those hairs its called good grooming. In this case better sound. All in the details leads to more and better detail. Tom 
Brass screws make a real difference on Dunlavy s ?
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Brass screws make a real difference on Dunlavy s ?
Never known of any speaker manufacturer to adjust the torque on any of their speaker drivers when mounted into the cabinet and this includes DAL.. except one for sure. If any were indeed factory set there has never been a setting quoted in a shop ... 
Brass screws make a real difference on Dunlavy s ?
Also energy can be drawn in a particular direction by mechanical force or tension. If you have a speaker driver that is to be secured with multiple fasteners then all those fasteners should be tightened the same. Like a drum head the energy should... 
Brass screws make a real difference on Dunlavy s ?
Dunlavy speakers have no threaded inserts. Dunlavy speakers do sound better with brass machine screws on all the drivers as well as the tweeter mounting face plate. Replacing the steel mounting hardware with brass on the crossover back plate ..imp...