tom_nice
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| Isolation Platform for CD Transport?? I've just installed a Neuance Shelf under an Accuphase DP-75, which at 43 pounds has some vibration control built in. The improvement was striking, and while I love to tweak I don't expect to try to improve on this arrangement. It is important to ... | |
| Stealth PGS Interconnect. Any opinions? I've used, and seriously compared, Stealth CWC (a copper litz wire design), Stealth silver ribbon, and Stealth PGS.(Disclaimer: I know the designer personally, though through a wire purchase originally, and wish his company success, so discount my... | |
| Blue Circle BC3 Galatea - thoughts I've only read a review, but from it I know that this preamp has the best volume control I've learned of, FAR better than the series stepped attenuator used in both CAT SL-1 and CAT Ultimate. When the rest of your system gets good, a stepped ladde... | |
| Best DIY Sound Dampening Materials? An afterthought: why not read F. Alton Everest's "Sound Studio Construction on a Budget" or his "Master Handbook of Acoustics", 4th Edition, and, along with seeing a huge list of absorption and diffusion devices, learn how to analyze your room's r... | |
| Best DIY Sound Dampening Materials? I'll be glad to paste my DIY RPG-style diffusor plans--one and two dimensional--into an email, to give you a quick look at them. Aesthetically acceptable? Not for me to say, but my wife is willing to see them as modern sculptures. You'll need seri... | |
| Looking to Buy My First CD Transport Sonic Frontiers SFT-1 is very good, but will probably cost more used than Audio Alchemy DDS Pro. (If I have initials wrong, it's their top of the line.) The AA was underrated from the start, IMHO, and it didn't help for the company to go out of bu... | |
| Best Vibes in Jazz For the best vibes sound that I've heard, you might want to get Mapleshade (Wildchild) "Swingin' and Burnin'", by the John Cocuzzi Quintet. John plays the vibes. I'd never heard of him, and I'm no expert (though I've heard all the others so far me... | |
| Single-Ended vs. Push -Pull You might want to look at the Quicksilver review in March, 2001 Stereophile, for the designer's comments on just this question. In "Manufacturer's Comments" in that issue, he also goes over the pros and cons of passive and active preamps. A balanc... | |
| Are Monoblock s worth it? Now that I've experienced monoblocks, I'll never use anything else. I changed from 7' cables to 18" cables, same brand, and credit that with much of the improvement. Without trying to "talk the talk" about dynamic headroom and so on, I simply felt... | |
| Pass Aleph Why not ask Nelson Pass? He's a source you can trust, and in my experience you always get an answer back from him in a week or less. I think the web site is www.passlabs.com. | |
| Speaker Cable Lengths - W/ Monos I went from 7' speaker cables to 18" ones, using monoblocks. Nothing else changed, the cables were both Stealth Ultimate Ribbon. The improvement with 18" was huge! The subjective impression is of having the music MUCH CLOSER. If you can manage it,... | |
| Room Acoustic Treatment with High WAF? My wife must be an angel: she can see my DIY RPG-style diffusors as modern sculpture. You might try your wife out on some of the pics on the RPG web site: www.rpginc.com. My Styrofoam copies can be painted like the walls, but wild colors might REA... | |
| Building a new listening room. Help ? I've been beaten to the punch here: when I saw the thread, I was poised to recommend the Master Handbook of Acoustics (but be sure to get the 4th edition) AND Sound Studio Construction on a Budget. All I can add is the name of the author, which ot... | |
| inexpensive room treatment options Depending on your workshop capabilities, I'd recommend my very own DIY imitations of RPG diffusors. Please email for my instructions for making them if you could consider this: you'd need a table saw or some other good way of cutting Styrofoam cle... | |
| Electrostatic positioning 1A I have Quad ESL 63's, and have placed 2' x 2' RPG Omniffusor clones (my DIY design, using Styrofoam, ask for details if you want my instructions for them) raised on stands to be right behind the panels. They worked beautifully, but for tall electr... |