whart
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| Samsung smart TV Do you have a freestanding Amazon Fire box? I have a newish Samsung TV and didn't bother to activate the 'smart' features. I just use it as a monitor. The Fire (separate box) goes into an input on my A/V pre-pro and that connects to the TV. I thin... | |
| Turntable and Rack vibration control I may be wrong, but @pani is trying to walk a fine line here- too much cushion and he loses the immediacy that these tables are known for (and the reason he presumably switched from the Platine Verdier, which is highly regarded table). I can’t rea... | |
| Turntable and Rack vibration control @pani - it may not be a complete solution, but reinforcing a wooden floor can help. @atmasphere - are you on concrete below the rack or the flooring? | |
| Would anyone like a tube hour counter for amps that don't have this function ? @folkfreak -folk (or freak)-- that's some low hours for a 6H30 to fail. Are these tubes supplied by ARC or a third party?I use that tube in my line stage and sourced real Reflektor DRs--after several years of moderate use, I send the unit back to ... | |
| 2017 Honest Cabling that doesn’t promote bankruptcy Blindjim- I think the choice of cable is system dependent. Ideally, the cables should be neutral, as should the components, but the reality, in my experience, is that different components sound different, and when combined with other components - ... | |
| Flat vinyl records... Please chip-in to insite! I have used the Vinyl Flat and have the Furutech (made by Orb). When I first got the Furu, I figured- go the limit 2.5 hours of heat- it did flatten some badly warped records, but caused other problems to crop up. I now adjust the heat duration to... | |
| Dedicated Line Noise Filter? @lowrider57 - @cleeds has it right- all "dedicated" means for our purposes is that the circuit isn’t being shared by other appliances, switches, lighting, etc. It reduces, but does not in my experience, eliminate, noise from other parts of the ele... | |
| Would "Sgt. Pepper's" be a better album if..... @austinbob - thanks for mentioning Twelve Dreams. One of my favorites from the time of its release. I assume with your name, you are in Austin?We just bought a period house here, and the chandelier in the entry way was a gift to the house from Ma... | |
| Best indoor FM antenna, your experience. I reached Audioprism, which referred me to C. Crane Company. They sell what looks like a cheapo folding dipole but in reality is a pretty substantial antenna- it sells for under 20 dollars. It seems to work very well- got stronger signal than ever... | |
| Sonic qualities of SET output tubes? @blindjim - the horns are Avantgarde Duos which I have since around 2006- so they aren't one of the newer models but benefitted from some of the running updates prior to the Omega modification. Their internal woofer system is augmented with a pair... | |
| Sonic qualities of SET output tubes? If you are asking about SET amps, I don't think the question of speakers is a secondary one. I've heard speakers that can play with SET amps but aren't really sustained by them and benefit from greater power. I think you have to treat the amp-spea... | |
| Would "Sgt. Pepper's" be a better album if..... @geoffkait said: "Every thug is relative."Especially true in the old days of the New York Families. | |
| Would "Sgt. Pepper's" be a better album if..... There is an avid following of Beatles fans on the Hoffman board who are constantly raising similar questions about track arrangements and perfect sequencing for the songs within the various albums. I've never been a huge fan of Sgt. Pepper's, and ... | |
| What's been your turntable ownership over the years? 1970-ish AR Turntable1973-Technics SP-101980s- Well Tempered, heavily tweaked1990s- sorry, too busy2005 Kuzma Reference/Triplanar2006- to date Kuzma XL/Airline arm2017- refurbished SP 10, see 1973. | |
| Dedicated Line Noise Filter? Not that it will help, but gotta say, @jea48 is just so generous with his knowledge- he helped me with some questions I had about an isolation transformer install, and I had a big electrical contractor do the work, open a permit, etc. There is a g... |