whart
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| Austin Acoustic horns I'll look 'em up. Never hurts to make new friends. This town is so chilled out, I'm almost amazed anything gets done. | |
| 'Quietest place on Earth' anechoic chamber I'm not sure that dead a room would sound good for reproduced sound. I know we deal with all kinds of issues involving reflections, room modes, etc. but overdamped rooms sound and feel claustrophobic to me. | |
| Austin Acoustic horns Are they from Austin, Tx? | |
| Are HT speakers best for primary audio listening or not? @blindjim - does "HT" mean 'home theatre'? I took it from there.... | |
| Record and Stylus Inspection @james1969 - James, I was on your intermittent noise thread. Looked at your system here. You are comrade of Vladimir? (Me too, have old ML2 love them like Mother Russia). :) | |
| Record and Stylus Inspection I bought one of those years ago, and couldn't really get anything out of it. I use a more conventional jeweler's loupe at 5-10X, less than 10 bucks on Amazon, it has small led illumination but you are just looking through a simple lense, not a mic... | |
| Are HT speakers best for primary audio listening or not? @blindjim-- I think you have to be more specific about the speaker, amplifier(s) and your room. For some years, I ran a large home theatre, using some big Snells in a D’Appolito configuration, with multiple basic amps from ARC. At the time, I was ... | |
| Do classical CDs made from early analog tapes sound better on your system than new CDs? I’m in it now, only b/c many of the records I’m chasing are crazy money- thousands of dollars in some cases. Not only do I not want to spend that kind of money on a single record-- i’m a retired pensioner living on my investments- but do you reall... | |
| high frequency intermittent noise @james1969 - no, I was not. I was thinking of that braided stuff that is sold by electronic parts wholesalers or specialty suppliers, like the guy that sells the Duelund? cable that in certain cases needs shielding.I reserve tin foil for hat linin... | |
| high frequency intermittent noise Before you get all spendy on fancy audiophile cables* is there some pro level shielding material that you can buy to wrap the cables? I know that the shields typically go to ground on one end, but I gotta believe there’s a cheaper DIY way to see ... | |
| Do classical CDs made from early analog tapes sound better on your system than new CDs? I’m really just starting to take CDs seriously, and have found a similar quality on some early prog/psych obscurities. Where the CD was mastered from tape--they let the tapes (or safeties) out in the early days. In a couple instances that I can th... | |
| high frequency intermittent noise @james1969 - alas, another quiet oasis in NYC gone to hell. This thread is fascinating to me for the deductive work- i know suffering the noise sucks--we've probably all had our share of imponderable issues at times- but i'm learning as i read thi... | |
| high frequency intermittent noise @kosst_amojan- is it possible that the building itself is set up with these devices you identified? (They seem to act like repeaters, to increase strength within buildings). Unless a neighbor set one up to improve his/her cell reception, as @jea48... | |
| How expensive are best NOS tubes ? And how difficult to find ? @inna- I do my shopping from my home- known vendors that are reliable, and some I discover along the way. Tubemonger, who I hadn’t dealt with before had never used Genelex EF86 driver tubes (used in the old Quad mono amps) that were flying lead an... | |
| How expensive are best NOS tubes ? And how difficult to find ? They aren't going to get cheaper, but I'm not sure you should base your buying decision on the cost of the tubes. And agree, it is harder to find some tubes now than it was even 5 years ago. Most of those small tubes last a long time, but if they ... |