thom_at_galibier_design
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| What is more accurate: magnetic anti-skating, or barrel weight attached a fishline? Hi Stringreen,Actually, lever based (gravity) anti-skate systems vary the force across the record due to the angular change of the weight (it's distance from the fulcrum relative to the downward force of gravity). Designs with thread (string) lik... | |
| What is more accurate: magnetic anti-skating, or barrel weight attached a fishline? Lewm said: Ralph, I am saying that when the cantilever/stylus is tangent to the groove, the friction force generated by the stylus to groove resistance has a vector directed tangent to the groove, too. But because the headshell is offset with ... | |
| What is more accurate: magnetic anti-skating, or barrel weight attached a fishline? TLDR (too long, didn't read - so some of this may have been covered) ...In general (because especially with anti-skate, there are no hard and fast rules), the smallest bit of anti-skate has worked best for me ... definitely err on the side of too ... | |
| You can only take 5 albums to a deserted Island... Hi Marty,Darn! I love Richard Thompson.Another luthier who has an incredible sensibility about him is Jeff Senn. I spend way too much time on thegearpage.net for my own good, but as an audio manufacturer, it’s nice to clear the palate.Apart from ... | |
| You can only take 5 albums to a deserted Island... Well, Thom, if we’re taking five guitars and/or amps instead of albums, I’ll play:James Goodall DreadnaughtSchroeder Chopper (LP style)Tom Bills "Falling Leaf" archtopHughes & Kettner Grandmeister 36 amp Fractal Axe effects processor I’m borr... | |
| Can I use a step up transformer? What yogiboy and Al said. The ideal gain structure lets you run toward the end of your line stage's range - all things being equal (which they never are).Now, from a noise floor perspective, it's possible that a step-up may help, but you'll be de... | |
| You can only take 5 albums to a deserted Island... My Martin HD-28One of my TelecastersOne guitar amplifier (likely a modified Princeton Reverb)A large box of stringsA source of AC power ;-)Thom @ Galibier Design | |
| remove tubes before moving cross town? What are we talking about here, 10 minutes tops to remove and replace the tubes? That's the funny part about this and many other threads. Sometimes the quest for knowledge takes more time than playing it safely does (i.e. removing the tubes). ... | |
| remove tubes before moving cross town? In case someone generalizes these answers, I might add that I would never transport an amp with a directly heated triode installed (45, 300b,etc.). I would definitely remove these tubes from an amp.Tubes like those found in more "main stream" gear... | |
| Stylus cleaner To the OP,I thought this conversation was laid to bed years ago when Doug Deacon popularized use of the Magic Eraser.No doubt there are fluids which (over time) will leave your stylus looking like new (clear/white). I confess to having only used L... | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. I wrote:Another consideration regarding directionality. A fuse which is properly specified for the circuit is half way toward melting.To which geofkait asked: How so, Thom? If that’s actually true, what is the relationship of being "half way to... | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. Another consideration regarding directionality. A fuse which is properly specified for the circuit is half way toward melting.Just sayin' ...Cheers,Thom @ Galibier Design | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. Geoff,We’re in agreement that a shielded interconnect presents two variables which are potentially at odds with each other - the recommended directionality based on the which end the shield is grounded to vs. the grain orientation of the wire.In b... | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. Hi gdnrbob, IF fuses are directional, AND manufacturers know this, Then, Why can't they tell us which way to orient the fuse for most musical reproduction? As I said earlier, Pat as SMc, said to try them one way and reverse them later and see w... | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. Once again, Geoff,Your excluding shielded designs from the discussion is a bit of a strawman, since the vast majority of cables are shielded and therefore have directionality "mandated" by the shield connection, which I’d hazard a guess has a rand... |