viridian
Responses from viridian
| Does other Audiogon members' opinion carry any weight for you ? Certainly not on politics, the stock market and medical advice. | |
| Saving old vintage gear is a lot harder than people make it out to be. The ESR of an electrolytic cap is almost always higher than a poly cap of the same value. We tend to think of capacitors as having a capacitive value, but forget that they have a resistive value as well. Replacing the original electrolytic caps w... | |
| ??? What Is Your Favorite Speaker Finish ??? I could eat a Dagwood right now! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagwood_sandwich | |
| ??? What Is Your Favorite Speaker Finish ??? I’ll answer the question backwards. What’s my favorite Finnish speakers? https://taipuuspeakers.fi/en/taipuu-speakers/ | |
| Vinyl Me Please...well, not anymore You have to hand it to the management team that drives a record company into the ground during the great vinyl Renaissance. | |
| How many times can u visit a hifi store before it annoys the store if u plan on a purchase OP, is there a reason you would simply not ask the proprietor of the store in question? | |
| Amps.. Is Odyssey worth it? Thank you. Anything is only good for the cost if you like the sound quality and the component fits sympathetically into your system, so an audition or blind buy is probably required to determine that. Last year, a friend of mine was selling his S... | |
| Amps.. Is Odyssey worth it? Worth what? | |
| PS Audio BHK300 didn’t work this morning. Jim, thank you, and best of luck for a speedy resolution. | |
| PS Audio BHK300 didn’t work this morning. Sorry to hear of your issues. When you say that you checked "everything" did you physically remove each fuse and test it with the continuity function of a multi-meter or similar? Visual inspection is not reliable. | |
| DIN Phono Cable DIN refers to a variety of connectors originally designated by German standards, what you are looking for specifically is a JIS connector. Japanese standard. | |
| Ortofon carts are too hot for my phono preamp? Excessive capacitance with a MM cartridge will cause a peak in the audible range before any roll off at the top of the range, and this will be perceived as added brightness. https://www.hagtech.com/loading.html | |
| What is a "reference" system? Dekay, thanks for that! Well, if it’s good enough for James Mason, it’s good enough for me. What kills me is that I have visited the homes of some of the old codgers...err members on this board, and you know what? They have all of this scratch bu... | |
| Ortofon carts are too hot for my phono preamp? Well in MM mode the Avid has 48db of gain, which is very high for MM, which is typically around 40db, and the Ortofons tend to measure high output, so what you are hearing could be a mismatch. In which case the only options are to live with it, ch... | |
| Help me choose a phono pre Whatever preamp you choose, make sure that you can select 0 picofarads of capacitance, or at worst case 100 picofarads, or less. The AT has a rising high end response and that can be exacerbated by high capacitance phono stages. And your phono cab... |