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| Guilty Pleasures.... Whatever the guilt feels like, Dewald, and it can feel horrible, you don't have to use it to beat up on yourself. Developing a radical turntable and tonearm is sure to teach you a lot, and bravo for your salvaging and recycling. IME the most awful... | |
| Guilty Pleasures.... I hear you Dewald. I've spent 20 years building up my main system and it sounds superb now (but wait till I get the last few tweaks done)! Yet 92% of the people who hear it don't realize how good it actually is and how much work went into it. And ... | |
| Your top 3 comedians Peter SellersHarpo MarxSpike Milligan | |
| Speaker cables or AC regenerator? Tboooe, I have tried three kinds of power treatment on my various CDPs and in every case, high, low or middle end the treatments made the units much nicer to listen to. It just seems to me that digital gear is very much more sensitive to AC crud t... | |
| Digital Cable Choice; how critical is it? Nsgarch, I'm only referring to 75-ohm metal cables, I have no experience with any other kind. | |
| Digital Cable Choice; how critical is it? My experience is a lot like Jeffcott's. I have had Wyde Eye to Wireworld Gold Starlight and in between and my conclusion is the same as his. I would only want to add that digital cable _length_ made a big difference to my system and an audio pal's... | |
| What is the order of power cord priority? IME they should go on CDP and preamp. | |
| Speaker cables or AC regenerator? Let us know if the AC device makes a difference... I for one am betting you'll be shocked (no pun intended)! | |
| musicianiship--when is it bad or good ? Mr. T ( hey, that's what my Mom called me ! ), may I say you have every right to aim for perfect objectivity... that may need some definition, of course, but you certainly have the right to it IMVHO.if an artist deliberately takes liberties, inclu... | |
| musicianiship--when is it bad or good ? There is a performance of Bach's Musical Offering that was put together with famous names,and it sounds like they rehearsed it once and then recorded it.For me,musicianship improves the more the ensemble is together.Sure!Good musicianship is not a... | |
| Options to upgrade from Cambridge Integrated Nice to have the update!Your new listening room dimensions have indeed changed the equation. You are not looking at steadily improving your present system any more, starting with speakers (the weakest element right now) and later changing the amp.... | |
| Do you like to use AC filter or ISO transformer? I use a double system: twin Auricaps (0.47 mF/600V) in parallel across the AC receptacle and Topaz and Xentek (on its way) ultra-isolators on source and preamp. Balanced power is an intriguing idea but already this setup gives great results. Noise... | |
| Who Do You Credit For Getting You Into This Hobby? Great tribute to Albert!I credit my Dad. He got into "stereo" in the late fifties I think it was, with a Fisher amp, a Rek-O-Kut turntable with a Shure cart and a pair of handmade horn speakers. I remember hearing a good many Golden Age vinyls on ... | |
| What happened to Linear Tracking Turntables I believe Chadnliz is right, and a LT arm if improperly adjusted can harm a record more and faster than a pivoted arm. And they are hard to adjust correctly unless extremely well-made. So I have always considered LT arms as not to be fooled around... | |
| Xmas gift suggestions Well, you could get him a good AC cord for his preamp... but a few hunnerd buck would buy a nice choice of music from one of the vinyl sellers, too. |