whart
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| Happen to you? Gear chasing because the fundamentals were wrong. Apropos hearing loss, mine is age-related, not due to damage. I don’t go much beyond 12khz, which is normal for a male approaching 70 years. This does not affect my hearing or judgement of the midrange, which is where most of the critical musical ... | |
| Happen to you? Gear chasing because the fundamentals were wrong. @hilde45 - I don't disagree with your observations- the amp-speaker synergy, the acoustics of the room and effective placement of the gear (I don't rely heavily on room treatment) and noise- both ambient and inter-component as well as the quality ... | |
| I Hate Moving It's funny, we haven't moved that many times since adulthood, but in some ways I find it cathartic, even though it leaves me exhausted. If you are anything like me, you throw stuff in a box that makes its way to the basement. Ten or twenty years l... | |
| I NEED A 16 INCH CORK TURNTABLE MAT There is an outfit from Portugal that sells a cork/rubber 16" mat, die cut, for around 25.00 US plus shipping. They claim that they will do other versions. Might be worth contacting them. They are on E-Bay. | |
| Just got back in the vinyl community Welcome back to spinning LPs. I think @bkeske ’s suggestion to build your collection is a good one as is @bdp24 ’s observation that all LPs are not created equal. In my experience, the more different records you play, the more you hear the strengt... | |
| Has anyone tried to launch a for sale ad here, lately? @lewm- don't you think it is worth reaching out to Tammy? It could be a software glitch here - not uncommon. | |
| How best to eliminate LP warps There was a period where the Furutech DF-2 was no longer being shown on websites. I had the impression Orb had discontinued it and Furutech was no longer carrying it. Within the last year, I noticed a bunch of Furutech DF-2 units for sale- new. Pr... | |
| What does it take to be a die hard Beatles fan? I never considered myself a die hard Beatles fan though I remember seeing them on the Ed Sullivan show back in the day and of course have a fair number of their albums, not the early Parlaphones but the Blue Box, the Mono Box and a few others. One... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" @drkingfish- fair. Just a personal thing for me. I recently finished reading a book on the history of surgery and the differences between the doctors (who were educated and held titles) and the barber/surgeons, who were treated as barbarians. Obvi... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" @rich121- are you the gent who had the older Monks double and we talked about sourcing parts? If so, I’m glad you got it fettled. One the issues that came up on the SH Forums when Neil’s first edition was published was that distilled water was no... | |
| Can/Is AI Used To Post Threads on Audigon? Why not? I’ve read that bots can sign up to internet accounts, and from there, if you’ve ever played with the freely available "AI," you can ask it to write a contract, for example. And it will do that. A little prosaic, maybe lacking some nuance,... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" Thanks @mijostyn and I absolutely agree that it is part of the process- the science is never "settled" in a sense. What struck me as odd is that the potential hazards of using alcohol in a US machine are well known- an open web search (not relying... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" I was a student of intellectual history long before I became a lawyer and am now retired from that and have been back in academia for the last ten years. One thing I learned along the way was that most successful learning processes were collaborat... | |
| BEST CD TRANSPORT As a mainly vinyl LP guy, I bought the entry level C.E.C. transport that I've used with a couple different DACs. It delivers what's on the disc without any artifacts and doesn't have the sound I used to associate with "bad CD." Some Redbook sounds... | |
| New Cartridge Causing Intermittent Popping Good for you. Troubleshooting that kind of thing can be maddening. I had an intermittent crackle a few years ago. Swapped out leads, all new tubes in everything (a little premature, but I wanted to make sure), a wanky XLR connector that I sent bac... |