whart
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| Isolation Transformers I have used isolation transformers in a variety of settings. One, an old 240/120 step down made by Richard Gray for a big home theatre system- the system itself is long gone- was the only thing that would fully isolate a nasty electrical snap from... | |
| Disco...yep, I'm going there Bros Johnson- Strawberry Letter #23 is xxxxing killer. I like their version of it better than the original Shuggie Otis. Must be that slap bass.I lived through that era- I had a friend who worked on a bunch of recordings from the late disco era. S... | |
| Basic cable question Al’s response is much more technical than anything I could offer you, but the ’loom theory’ is also based, to a degree, on the ’house sound’ of particular cable brands. To me, the only way to know is to live with it in your system. Thus, The Cable... | |
| Break-In is Brutal I'm rigging up a burn in cable for my new tone arm (wires) which is just the cost of parts. I'll run some CDs through it. The Hagerman Fry-Baby (or whatever it is called) may be worth the two hundred bucks for cable burn in if it is an issue- (I d... | |
| How good is your system Dig Seal. Never owned any of his records. The vinyl is pricey, it was released during the nadir. Any particular CD release that’s being used as a reference for this?I agree with @frogman - some systems that are super revealing of detail don’t soun... | |
| Fate? Karma? Purgatory? Help me put a good spin on this. Literature too. The South is famous for writers. There’s a story, perhaps apocryphal, about a record business exec visiting a road house down south and hearing this marvelous performer. He approached the artist after a set and said, I’m with X lab... | |
| Ugrade-itis - is there a cure? I agree with @geoffkait that one addiction is often dealt with by replacing it with another (the shrinks can weigh in on that one). The solution I proposed-- chasing records (whatever your medium) at least gives you more to feed the machine and is... | |
| Fate? Karma? Purgatory? Help me put a good spin on this. Yep, we visited the Delta a few years ago. I had this image in my mind of sepia-tones, it was quite lush and beautiful. Obviously a lot of history there, some pretty scary. I did see the road to Parchman Farm but I doubt they wanted visitors. We w... | |
| Fate? Karma? Purgatory? Help me put a good spin on this. Take 'em down to the crossroads. | |
| Degritter brand ultrasonic record cleaner It should work. I've had several machines and the only shortcoming I've found is that some records need more work- for those you could do a manual pre-clean with a fluid like AIVS #15, rinse it, then stick it into the US. I do find that US adds so... | |
| Degritter brand ultrasonic record cleaner @prof - will this be your first US RCM? | |
| Ugrade-itis - is there a cure? And as hobbyists, I think there’s always an interest in tinkering, improving, etc. What helped me was shifting my focus to the records (or whatever your preferred medium is). Lots to learn, lots of music to get played that’s new and different to y... | |
| Cartridge recommendations I won’t necessarily recommend a particular cartridge but instead make a couple observations and ask a couple questions. I was of the school of finding the best cartridge I could afford and sticking with it. I went through a number of different car... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? I use a linear tracker (Kuzma Airline) and the fine horizontal balancing set up involves bouncing the arm while it is in its 'up' cueing position at different points along the face of a record to see which way the arm drifts-- the objective, if I ... | |
| Image/soundstage and punch/bass @bdp24 - yep, i remember when that fan type driver was introduced.All: coming back to my question, isn’t "thwack" or "punch" higher in range than sub-bass typically produced by subwoofers? What settings are you using on subs -I tend to cross mine ... |