whart
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| Porsche Yeah, sound systems in high performance cars are a waste. I wanna hear what’s going on on the road. I had a fancy system installed in my first Ferrari (McIntosh amp, etc.) and about 3 or 4 weeks after I had the car, had him remove all of it and pu... | |
| Porsche MC- oh yeah, and the CGT more so, based on some of the stats. One of the things that GT2 did do well was put down its power smoothly, and there was plenty of grip, so you could move ahead quite quickly, especially once the turbos really kicked in.... | |
| Townshend Springs under Speakers I played it too. Never really got good at it. | |
| Townshend Springs under Speakers I’m hardly ever in MC’s camp, but I’ve dealt with a lot of people over the years, in a number of businesses. My experience has generally been that, unless you are dealing with someone who is a crook, most of the folks peddling gear are believers a... | |
| Porsche I like Porsches. Had two of them, among many Italian exotics. One bonus of the Porsche was that it didn't attract the kind of attention that some of the Italian cars did. The GT2 I had was from the 996 platform, which in my estimation, fell short ... | |
| Does listening to music increase your IQ? I'm thinking of it in reverse: the muscle memory to play the tune and do the lead parts on guitar as well as Glen Campbell did on that bittersweet final tour as his brain got more and more lost.....IQ is a test of something. But there is some conn... | |
| Do tubes matter beyond gain stage on preamp? @emergingsoul said: "So better to have a couple tubes vs no tubes.ie. Harmonic distortion is highly desirable vs flat ss."I'm not sure I agree with that broad an approach. You can discuss euphonies and take it to an extreme, but not all tube equip... | |
| Allocation of analog resources I’m gonna go with @Mijostyn here, with a few additional thoughts. First, the analog front end also consists of a phono stage so I think you have to take that into account in any effort to budget. Second, I’m a big believer in used gear, since a lo... | |
| Do tubes matter beyond gain stage on preamp? This may only have indirect relevance to your question,@emergingsoul, but I’ve been playing with different rectifiers for the power supply to my phono stage, an Allnic. Right now, I have a Mullard (really a Philips) metal base GZ 34 and a GEC u52 ... | |
| Clean ground @oldhvymec- I'll bet you even know just how much air to let out of the tires to get the rig through an overpass. You should have seen the crane they brought in on an articulated multi-wheel chassis- my property isn't huge and they man handled this... | |
| And Now, For All You Omni Fanatics @Douglas_Schroeder: Harry Bosch would be proud of you.* I haven't heard one of these for decades. And still made in Brooklyn!Congrats- nice piece. *If you were a fan of the TV. series, you'd notice he never had any wires connecting his system. But... | |
| Clean ground Pauly- here's an example, I think you can get these cheaper and they are sold on Amazon as well.I will also try to take a photo of my set up that better shows the bar and post it later. In the meantime, here's the commercial site. | |
| Clean ground @Pauly- so is it safe to say that nothing in the audio system plugs into a wall receptacle for the household electrical system, but instead, the entire system is battery driven? Apart from the system that charges it (which is connected to your ele... | |
| Clean ground @Pauly- you sound like you know your way around a soldering iron, so I don’t want to patronize you in this response, but are you talking about a clean dedicated ground that is connected to the main ground or an isolated ground? I have the former- ... | |
| Wait time after record cleaning @Orthomead- I doubt it was studied during the heyday of vinyl because wet cleaning (apart from the Monks/Loricraft) wasn’t common. I wonder if Neil @Antinn has any thoughts from a materials science perspective?I usually clean in batches, largely t... |