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| The best oil to use to lube a turntables spindle . Most mfrs. have a specific oil that they supply/recommend for their bearings. The requirements vary for the bearings used. A "sloppy" bearing will need a higher viscosity oil to take up the "slop", and close tolerance bearings will need a thinner ... | |
| Which SPEAKER for the 21ST century? If 90% of music is in the midrange, then why not use a great single driver speaker? Keep studying Tweek, you will eventually find out that I have been right all along. | |
| Question: Does ATC have the best midrange driver? I have never heard the ATC's so I don't know for sure. But, the recording industry is not exactly known for having "golden ears" in the past. The previous "most used" monitor in recording studios was Yamaha NS-10's. Not exactly great. I doubt if t... | |
| What is the best 2A3 SET Amplifier? The Sun 2A3 amp is very highly regarded and reasonably priced. | |
| What about the Teres Turntable? Okay, here's where I am so far. I am planning to go for the 2.75 inch thick acrylic, lead shot-filled platter with precision bearing first. Chris says they should be ready by the end of the month($990). Next, I want to go with the Cocobolo shot-fi... | |
| Try this simple DIY interconnect cable. Good question. I did not try wrapping both conductors, evenly spaced, around the tube. I did read about that method though. The reason I put the signal conductor down the middle of the tube is because it is a much oversize tube and I wanted the "a... | |
| best way to clean Grado Sonata I can verify that matchbook strikers work well. I can also verify that Linn gave out the matchbooks with their logo on them that had "Linn Stylus Cleaner" printed on the cover. I personally watched Ivor Tiefenbrun clean the stylus of a Linn Karma ... | |
| H/T vrs Music speakers-Why the difference? I suppose it is because they are designed to do different things. A proper music speaker system is designed to reproduce musical performances in a lifelike manner. A Home Theater speaker system is designed to produce sounds like asteroids crashing... | |
| Best Sounding Cd Palyer for 2K I would definitely consider the Sony or Marantz SACD players. The Sony XA777ES has gotten rave reviews for redbook and is available new under $2k. There are numerous upgrade mods available including tube output stage by Modwright so you can take i... | |
| Horns + tube amps: can they handle LOUD like SS? You might be interested to know that the amps used by those guitar rockers were more than likely tube amps like Fenders and Marshalls. Their power rating was probably not as high as you think. Most guitar players know that a 25 watt tube head will... | |
| I need advice on Lowthers Fiddler, the imaging of the horn loaded speakers is really related to the frequencies that the horn is presenting. In the Lowther type back loaded horns, the driver is handling the mids and highs, with the horn working primarily to handle the lowe... | |
| What are the benefits of a SET amp? My, how the SS crowd is getting so aggressive these days. In an attempt to remain impartial(ha!), I will state that there is a group of purist type audiophiles who revere this type of amp for it's purity of midrange character, and are willing to a... | |
| Disks for protecting wood floors from spike damage How about using some quarters? I prefer the pre-1964 that are 90% silver. However the 1965-1969 that are silver/copper sandwich work well too. Stay away from the new state quarters as their precious metal content is very small. | |
| What Have I done? Shorted an amp? Check the owners manual for speaker protection circuit or fuse in the amp. It is unlikely that you burned out your amp. A quick touch like that is enough to engage a protective circuit, but probably not enough to burn it out. It is not a good thin... | |
| Best turntable for Eminent Technology arm I just read a website that said the ET works well on VPI turntables. They also said that the ET is the most difficult tonearm to set up in the history of audio. Good luck. |