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| Can You Trust a Shipper? (UPS, Fed-Ex, etc) I get stuff shipped to me via various carriers. The key is packing and palletizing. Bespoke shipping- the guy with the Halliburton case handcuffed to his wrist tends to cost. I once inquired about shipping jewelry- not something that is easily d... | |
| CEC Belt Drive CD Transports vs Jay's Audio CD Transports @no_regrets I'm a lousy test case- I used an Oppo briefly as a transport and my CD listening is probably 5% of what I hear- I usually only fire up a CD of something that is impossible to get on LP or is crazy expensive and use it as a basis to dec... | |
| CEC Belt Drive CD Transports vs Jay's Audio CD Transports I have the CEC TL 5. It needed something shortly after I got it and Audio Union here in the States serviced and returned it to me in a week. The remote is a cheesy plastic job, but you can buy a heavy aluminum one that is more appropriate. Have no... | |
| Record cleaning and realistic expectations @ghdprentice - For what it is worth, I don't think alcohol (most commonly denatured or isopropyl to prevent drinking) is necessarily harmful, though I rarely use it. It is an ok solvent and a modest surfactant (reduces water tension). One concern ... | |
| Audiomods Is A Great Company @mijostyn @wrm57 - wrm, my doppelgänger here, is right on with adding a "plate" to the Minus K. I use an HRS platform that I had prior to purchasing the Minus K. Particularly with my table, the Kuzma XL, which is machined brass, I would not want t... | |
| Electrostatics and tubes @cundare2 - I'm glad you got the old Quad gear restored, though you had to sell it. No images appear- as far as I know, you have to host them through a third party source, and then use the image function in the tool bar above to paste in the url w... | |
| Electrostatics and tubes I run a vintage system downstairs (separate from the main system shown in my profile here) that consists of a pair of Quads I bought in 1974. They were restored by Kent McCollum at Electrostatic Solutions in 2017. I had put them away back in 1990 ... | |
| Those magical days when the HVAC is off @ostemo8- your original post and the comments it has generated have raised a number of different issues relating to different kinds of "noise." When I was doing the whole house generator, I was looking at the current draw of air conditioners- some... | |
| Those magical days when the HVAC is off I use an oversized iso transformer (10kVa) for my main system, which draws very little current. The AC system also has variable speed compressors, not just variable speed fans, so once set temperature is reached, the compressors wind down and func... | |
| Quality of recording while evaluating speakers Use as wide a range of recordings as possible. Some "audiophile approved" records do not reflect what one might ordinarily listen to. I have a thing for ’70s era post bop- not exactly a high point in vinyl quality. But nonetheless revealing since ... | |
| Okki Nokki or kirmuss audio / isonic ultrasonic rcm? Thanks for the shout out, @orthomead. Hi, @portoalegre. I just saw your question because orthomead used the "@" in front of my screen name which brought me back to this thread. Neil Antin @antinn can probably give you a far better scientific expl... | |
| MoFi v/s UHQR I went in a different direction about 20 years ago-- I’m pretty much good on classic rock and where I wanted a better pressing due to mastering, I sought it out, but I rarely spend money on new audiophile reissues of the same old. To me, an increm... | |
| The Psychology Of Collecting I accumulated a lot of LPs from the early ’70s through the aughts-- buying heavily when records were devalued (except for audiophile stuff like the HP List, which I never bought into in a complete way b/c the sonics were his thing and much of the ... | |
| Is there a clear definition of what "Integrated" means? I think the definition has been blurred by market changes- in the early '70s, an integrated amp was power amp plus mostly full featured preamp with tape loop, sometimes tone controls, and other features characteristic of preamps at the time-- poss... | |
| HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SYSTEM IN LESS THAN 30 SECONDS I take the opposite approach. I want my system to sound good on "average," standard issue records, not audiophile "spectaculars." That isn’t to say I won’t search out a "best" pressing, but having accumulated a lot of LPs over the years, and culli... |