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| Trying to Help My Nephew With His First Venture Into High End Audio I built a Dyna70 and a Dyna PAS from kits when I was 14 so I don’t see why tubes would be inappropriate esp if he is geeky-oriented. Get him a kit to build: then he will really learn. | |
| Noise floors I have one of those floor boards, actually. | |
| Noise floors Well, what’s your goal? 15 db? 10? 5? 0?There is a point of “silence” at which the mind is not designed to adapt. The mind needs some noise simply so that it can keep us balanced while standing up. The mind needs some noise because it is programme... | |
| Who needs a Diamond Cantilever...? 💍 Best-groove”it's fun to philosophize about the theory of nothing. LoL”yes. All those philosophers used to drive taxis in NYC before the Pakistanis took over. | |
| Who needs a Diamond Cantilever...? 💍 Chakster, if by VdH, you mean Van den Hul: I have been sending my cartridges to him for 25 years minimum. I’m a “normal” person (if I put aside the fact that I’m an audiophile) and I speak to people there, get emails back and forth, and he is less... | |
| Who needs a Diamond Cantilever...? 💍 I’m finding this discussion to be rather useless, and therefore, exhausting. Do we have any measurable data or blind studies that show that any of this matters?Buy a cartridge that is good enough (any Koetsu, my personal preference, will do), that... | |
| Noise floors SNS, thank you for that link. Very interesting, perhaps a bit more detail than I need but very cool to read. I was being a little coy in my comment above. In my view, the room isn’t half of the audio system, it’s a third. The other third is our br... | |
| The best tube poweramp. . What do you think about ? I have NY Audiolab Futterman OTLs. Rarer than hen’s teeth. Easier to find than the ones built by Julius, which are rarer than rocking horse s^#*. Jon Specter, cousin of Al Kooper and former NY Audiolab technician, converted them from pentode to tr... | |
| Noise floors If you have too much ambient noise from sources external to your audio system, and if that bothers you, then you have to fix your room. It is that simple, and you don’t need a huge budget to do it. There’s a perceptual aspect to this. Having lived... | |
| A true legend has passed away! ' Set it and forget it ' And what does this have to do with audio? | |
| Why the cost increase? My wife and I are owners of dwellstead.coma mom and pop shop recently set up to acquire vintage homes with character or historic value, or just plain old homes, that need restoration done in a way that drives down their heating and cooling needs b... | |
| Fear of volume control I used to have to listen loud until I got a good room. Now, listening at low levels can sound as good or better - depending on the recording - as at higher levels.The old room was an asymmetrical 1200 sq ft of a 2,000 sq ft loft with a tin ceiling... | |
| Listening to digital and analog Having hunkered down in the corners of Audiogon for I dunno a few years, I’ll say this. The analog v digital thing had become a matter of faith. People are set in their ways/beliefs/ideologies/dogmas and while some are very erudite about their pos... | |
| How much difference does a phono preamp really make? A quality phono stage is essential to the proper functioning of any high end vinyl analog system. | |
| warmest speaker cables you've heard? Put them under a blanket. Especially at night. With some milk and cookies. |