vinylshadow
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| Phono Stage in inputs for 2 tonearms @dmgrant1 Battery operated ASR Basis Exclusive! | |
| What is preferred/best contact cleaner these days? I've been using 99.9% Isopropyl Alcohol. Then a little High Fidelity Cables NPS-Q45T Nano Contact Enhancer. | |
| Rogue Dragon Tube Recommendations Rogue sells better tubes for replacements. Contact Nick Fitzimmons. And Andy's is another option. | |
| How often, and how, do you clean your stylus? Anyone use that Hummingbird Ultrasonic stylus cleaner? I've heard that you don't want to use cleaning fluids on the stylus like alcohol. But maybe the Hummingbird uses water? | |
| My new Borresen X3's @missioncoonery Borreson has just come out with the T5 speakers with Titanium cone material. It's just below its M series that has Zirconium cones. $225k a pair...Interesting design, rear ports and style. | |
| Surge protector @immatthewj I believe you are defeating the protection that breakers provide by tripping them. Best to unplug your mains cables from the outlets. Nothing will protect stereo equipment with a direct lightning hit to your house. | |
| Surge protector @immatthewj What does switching off the breakers do. Don't you want them on so they offer protection by tripping? If you switch them off, don't you lose their protection and allow current to flow through without impediment? MOV's should be avoi... | |
| Considering Revising My Tonearms. Input On This Option Considered Origin Live Agile Tonearm. | |
| Back to the DAC I've heard that the Denafrip's Terminator is made in China. Andreas at Playback Designs invented the D/A converter. If I'm spending $24k on a DAC, it's going to be the MPD-8. If too much, then the MPD-6. Best build of any DAC out there. | |
| I suddenly have a weird buzz issue; can someone help me solve the problem? Ground loop? Try a cheater plug with the offending unit. | |
| Back to the DAC Playback Designs MPD-8 is one of the best, if not THE best, DAC around. | |
| Need a modern Class A monoblock, preferably half or compact chassis So much heat? Why not A/B? Like a Jeff Rowland. | |
| Looking for advise and recommendations on a nice record cleaner. Loricraft 4. Has a strong vacuum pump although I've heard not quite as strong as it was before SME bought out Loricraft. Don't know if true. But it uses a new piece of string so it's always 100% clean. | |
| Townshend Isolation Products. I use Townshend Seismics under everything. Please consider their speaker podiums. They have an incredibly positive effect on the sonics. Like an equipment upgrade. I put pods under my sub and all equipment as well as the rack isolation corners as... | |
| SPEAKER CABLE OR INTERCONNECT Townshend Audio F-1 Fractal speaker cables |