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| Vinyl Frontend/Linn LP12 Question If, years ago, you grew weary enough of your Linn's setup requirements that you decided to move on, what makes you think you won't grow weary of those setup requirements once more?Maybe a turntable with simpler setup would be a better choice: Gali... | |
| Sound bottlenecks: Cartridge-Amp-Speakers Dkzzzz, you are dreaming in colour if you think you will find speakers with flat response from 20Hz to 50kHz at the price you mention.Even if a manufacturer claimed 20Hz to 50kHz in a spec sheet, with no qualifying parameters (+/- 3dB, for example... | |
| Two terms I don't understand - please explain Dcstep, I have a Magnasonic DVD player that loses the beat. A pal has an old Pioneer changer that's even worse. From reviews that appeared in UHF Magazine long before I bought my first CDP (in 1999), the phenomenon was more widespread and farther ... | |
| Two terms I don't understand - please explain I thought "slam" referred to midbass energy, and "PRaT" to speed stability. Clock jitter in a digital source affects PRaT, so that when you try to tap your toe to a jittery player you keep losing the beat. It's a weird experience the first time yo... | |
| Bookshelf Speakers in Ceiling Corners? The positioning is very tough. If you want to avoid boom you'll need to avoid large (and even medium-sized) woofers and anything back-ported unless it's been specifically designed to work up against the wall.If it were me I would email George Shor... | |
| Is this when you have "arrived??" That sounds like a wonderful moment. Thanks for sharing. I only wish a great setup and great music (and maybe a great deal) were all it took to make me--and apparently your guest--feel as strongly. There are, for better or worse, other factors inv... | |
| How to explain our obsessions to the uninitiated? Maybe the poor guy sincerely wants to know.The best way to explain the audio passion to someone is to play music for them.The demo may strike a chord or it may not. If it does--if the listener gets all teary-eyed, or silent, or a bit awestruck (an... | |
| How am I frying all my amps? Oscillating? Help Leoturetsky, checking the preamp's output is a job for a technician unless you yourself know how to input a test signal and read the output for distortion. I would put it on the list for later and go with Atmasphere's advice for the present. It so... | |
| How am I frying all my amps? Oscillating? Help Leoturetsky, the "simple test" I was referring to is basically what you have done: voltage and polarity. My idea of anything more sophisticated would involve an oscilloscope and a check of the AC waveform. Maybe you should do that if you have any ... | |
| How am I frying all my amps? Oscillating? Help A simple test of the outlet would tell you if there were an AC problem. From your description, it really sounds like the AC supply would be the first place to look. | |
| Thinking of selling my Teres If it were me I'd start building the new system with the Teres as a foundation. I wouldn't change it unless I found a TT I liked better, and a buyer who'd appreciate the Teres. But that's me and not you. Best of luck! | |
| Just starting to learn Well, I've heard that the lower-power Adcoms in that series (555-545-535) sound better, so I'd try the 545. I'd then sell whichever amp I didn't want, unless I wanted to try biamping. Biamping with those two amps should be easy, since their gain i... | |
| Just starting to learn Which is the better preamp? Well, you could judge by reputation, build quality, sound or any combination of the three.If sound is what you care about (and I think that's the case for most folks here), then do an A-B test. Set up the system with on... | |
| Which speaker cable for upgrade Why don't you bring your Monsters in to the store and A-B them with the dealer's Kimbers? If this can be done, you won't be able to listen with identical unequal runs, of course, but if you can't hear any difference with them now, it shouldn't mak... | |
| Which speaker? paradigm s2 vs totem rainmaker If I were you I wouldn't want to know which was preferred by most people. I would want to know which was preferred by me.That pretty much means listening before you buy. But if you can't do that, you have to 1) try to find out how others describe ... |