willster
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| VH Audio Vcaps At one point in this thread there was some discussion about capacitor breakin. A good way to break in caps would be to plug them into a power strip and let them cook at 120 VAC for a few days. No fancy cable burner required. That's how I do it. | |
| Linear Tracking Turntables Interesting to see a reference to the Sony PS-X800 after all these years. I bought one new many many years ago and still have it stored in my basement. I haven't used it in a long time. Something went wrong with the arm control mechanism. A minor ... | |
| Audiodesk disc cleaner - anyone used it? Interesting idea about balancing the disc. However, in my experience, the tolerance at the hub allows the disc enough play that I would question the products ability to truely center anything.I did feel that the edge treatment made a subtle improv... | |
| Parallel vs. Bridged amps The simplest answer is that the plus signal of the balanced line is driven by one channel and the minus signal of the balanced line is driven by the other channel with both channels reference to the neutral leg of the balanced line. I would not at... | |
| Alesis masterlink arrived I purchased a Masterlink to use for LP archival. Currently my turntable is down, so I haven't had the opportunity to use it for that purpose. I compared the Masterlink, playing a CD to the same CD played on my Esoteric DV-50. No contest there. The... | |
| No wonder SACD hasn't caught on But wait, it gets even worse. The reason I'm looking to purchase music at Circuit City in the first place is so that I can use up the $50 gift card I got for participating in a work related study. I got to choose from a list of stores and chose Ci... | |
| Motor repair for Goldmund Studio TT /w Pabst motor Thanks for the info. I ran across this discussion of using a Dual motor quite some time ago and am not quite ready to butcher my turntable in order to make the Dual motor fit, although it might come to that.I can send pictures to anyone who wants ... | |
| Motor repair for Goldmund Studio TT /w Pabst motor Bad news. The guy that I put so much faith in doesn't want to spend any more time with my motor, even though he never completely isolated the problem. He has a back log of work and thinks he could repair three of his typical jobs for the time it w... | |
| High End Isolation - HRS, SRA, Active platforms Any passive design will have a resonant frequency, below which it will not isolate. In fact, around resonance it will amplify the vibration. Although some passive systems are designed to be tuned to the specific weight they will support, many desi... | |
| No wonder SACD hasn't caught on Actually, the last time I went to "Best Buy" they had a separate section for SACD and DVD-A.If you are interested in Classical, the Circuit City website had more of that than any other genre in SACD.By the way, why is it that any store with a name... | |
| High End Isolation - HRS, SRA, Active platforms I have one Halcyonics platform and two Critical Mass Grand Masters. RTNL -- In answer to your question about stacking components on the Halcyonics platform, it depends. The Halcyonics Micro 40 will hold 100 kilograms (about 220 lb), however, you d... | |
| What makes a high $$$ cartridge high $$$? Tiger- That double blind testing you mentioned...is that the blind leading the blind? :) | |
| Isoclean fuses: definitely worth it I suppose I could have been to hasty. The digression on Galileo and falling objects was starting to sound a little like a "mine is bigger than yours" discussion. That gets old really fast. So does someone saying that a person is stupid, deaf, delu... | |
| Isoclean fuses: definitely worth it Since this is turning into a pissing match, I think I'll drop out. By the way, I don't participate in forums such as these so that I can be "educated" by those who think they know it all. I am here for sharing ideas peer to peer in a friendly manner. | |
| Isoclean fuses: definitely worth it Davemitchell: If I understand your comment (and I'm not altogether sure that I do) the fuse directionality issue has little to do with power. It is a matter of impedance.For example, with capacitors constructed by rolling layers of film and foil t... |