thom_at_galibier_design
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| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. I'll let you all debate fuses and directionality to your heart's content. How you spend your time on this big rock we call Earth is none of my business.Geoff - your comment: By the same token, reversing interconnects that were inserted randomly... | |
| QUALITY AND SECURITY OF "LITTELFUSE" PRODUCTS Geoffkait: I've never been able to navigate HiFiTuning's website, even using Google Translate on Chrome. Perhaps you could post a direct link?Ralph: With respect to power cords, I suspect that a lot more is going on than resistance/voltage drop... | |
| QUALITY AND SECURITY OF "LITTELFUSE" PRODUCTS Thanks David,As an audiophile, I'm interested in the fuses. In retrospect, I could have made this a bit more clear. The fuse argument is much like the power cord argument. People contend that inexpensive wire is in your walls, so why would the ... | |
| QUALITY AND SECURITY OF "LITTELFUSE" PRODUCTS I wasn't implying that an audiophile fuse was an attempt to fix an architectural design problem and I tried to make that clear in the last paragraph of my previous post: All too frequently however, people try to solve architectural (design) probl... | |
| QUALITY AND SECURITY OF "LITTELFUSE" PRODUCTS Whatever you do, don't do this:https://www.flickr.com/photos/dvanzuijlekom/10474490106 Cheers,Thom @ Galibier Design | |
| QUALITY AND SECURITY OF "LITTELFUSE" PRODUCTS Kudos to them for choosing ceramic. I certainly encourage consumers to use what makes them happy. I hope I made it clear - that my comments were the perspective as a manufacturer and nothing more. I have a secondary reason for not specifying audio... | |
| QUALITY AND SECURITY OF "LITTELFUSE" PRODUCTS Very likely, the audiophile fuses are reliable, but I'm a bit OCD, and have extremely low risk tolerance ;-) If I'm signing my name to something with safety implications, I'm much more comfortable with a manufacturer with track record in the med... | |
| QUALITY AND SECURITY OF "LITTELFUSE" PRODUCTS My first consideration in a fuse is safety (doh!). I don’t mean to cast aspersions on audiophile fuses, but in this particular area (safety & fire), I’m much more comfortable dealing with a company whose butt is on the line - providing protect... | |
| Questionable service at Soundsmith Keep fighting the good fight, Peter and my best to you and your family. It's been a few years since we've had the opportunity to catch up and I always value our time spent together.Our strengths as artisans can also be construed by some as a weak... | |
| Questionable service at Soundsmith I won't get into the details of: your waiting time, "we'll check", "it's ready, please pay", although I direct you to lewm's comments above.I do want to comment however, that there's a reason Soundsmith is a "sacred cow" around these parts. It's ... | |
| OK...I've ditched my mono cartridge I like Lewm's thinking, and yes, the Myajima is a fine mono cartridge.I’m coming to think that, playing "mono a mono" can be very good, but equally important is the stylus profile and general design of the cartridge - irrespective of whether it’s ... | |
| What is best turntable for listening to Rock from the sixties like Led Zeppelin? I might re-word the OP's question as follows: "Which turntable/front end has weaknesses which are best masked when listening to music like that of Led Zeppelin?"This is still flawed thinking IMHO, but it at least creates an awareness of the probl... | |
| What is best turntable for listening to Rock from the sixties like Led Zeppelin? I agree with you bdp24. I read Ralph's comments as more of a warning to listen to a variety of music when making an equipment decision. Perhaps I misread that, but this has been my recommendation to people.For a period of time, I was enamored of... | |
| What is best turntable for listening to Rock from the sixties like Led Zeppelin? There are surely components that "do" bass better than others, noise floor, or any other parameter you can dream of and you can certainly "optimize" around those parameters if you choose (note the quotes around optimize). Let's use the Zeppelin e... | |
| What is best turntable for listening to Rock from the sixties like Led Zeppelin? This is one of the biggest myths in audio- that certain types of equipment might favor a certain kind of music. The fact is the equipment does not care and does not exercise any taste at all. A good turntable will treat all kinds of music the same... |