williewonka
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| Best cartridge for Rega Rp3 What's your budget? | |
| Does re-tipping a cartridge change specs? I had my Denon DL103 re-tipped with a stylus capable of higher resolution and the cartridge stepped up to deliver a more detailed sound and much better imaging.The "spec" stayed the same, but there was definitely a change in performance.Regards -... | |
| Bluesound Node 2 - Next level up @dcaudio - I am assuming you have the Node 2 ?Have you considered adding top notch cables and cone feet to the Node 2?I’ve alway used high quality cables on the Node 2 with amazing results and recently, I tried Brass Cone feet under the unit.The i... | |
| Streamer Advice: Bluesound Node 2 vs Aries Mini vs Oppo I cannot talk to the other players on your list, but for me, the Node 2 has proven to be an exceptional value.The sound quality improves immensly when treated to great cables (i.e. power and IC’s), to the point that I have stopped looking to achie... | |
| Military grade @qeoffkait - re... I take it the cryo was just window dressing. Unfortnately I have not tried a "non-cryo" version of this wire, so I am unable to make any comparable observations. Some people on this forum swear by its effectiveness, others cond... | |
| Military grade Sorry guys, but I am of a different opinion - I just concluded a years quest to find good wire for Interconnects, speaker cables and Power cablesI ended up with Mil-spec wire from Take Five Audio - seehttps://www.takefiveaudio.com/categories/100-... | |
| Looking for a digital cable 75 ohm KLE Innovations has a couple of digital cables that outperform most others.https://kleinnovations.com/kle-innovations-klei-products/klei-gzseries-cables/klei-gzero-digital/I've tried both and they offer exceptional performance.They are a high perf... | |
| Best building material for vibration free shelving Oops - I think I may have missed responding to a couple of people ... @n80 ...williewonka, I made some feet for my preamp out of walnut that I had lying around. The rubber feet of the pre-amp sit in the little divots on top, the wood blocks sit on... | |
| Best building material for vibration free shelving I picked up my brass/bronze feet (cones) today. I had them turned at a local metal fabrication shop the make bearing, spigots etc...I purchased the bronze and brass from Metal Supermarkets - they have locations globally.I had three diameters- 2 1/... | |
| Best building material for vibration free shelving @lowrider57 - RE: @williewonka; cool website, I bookmarked it. Thanks - hope you find some useful ponters - However, some of the information on there is a little dated and my current thoughts on a few of the DIY postings may have changed a little... | |
| Best building material for vibration free shelving @lowrider57 - many years ago when I first started looking into isolating my components I "created" my own low tech version of a foot using a steel washer and a hardened steel ball bearing - see...http://image99.net/blog/files/0915f27ce41639dc6e... | |
| Best building material for vibration free shelving @lowrider57 - a couple of weeks ago I had feet that had a layer of sorbothane between them and the amp and they seemed to isolate the amp from the shelf quite well.Then a fellow DIYer pointed out that the feet were not allowing internal vibrations... | |
| Best building material for vibration free shelving @lowrider57 - the difference between various woods depends on their grain. Oak has two common varieties white and red and while both are considered harwood they have very different properties.I’ve forgotten which is which, but one of them is actua... | |
| Best building material for vibration free shelving @lowrider57 - I have not tried the wooden blocks.The cones look very similar to those beech cones I purchased and cost less, but they are Oak and it might depend if it's white oak or red oak.I like maple for audio purposes - quite hard with a very... | |
| Nordost Sort Kones @ agiaccio - I am a DIYer and just getting into the use of "cones" under all of my components and I like to try different optionsBased on my limited experience to date I can tell you that cones do make a noticeable difference, and sometimes not fo... |