yoyoyaya
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| Cartridge wear with clicks and pops…? @OP. I've never heard of a stylus becoming detached from a cantilever due to groove contamination. Regarding buying a second TT/Cartridge, if you don't have one, an utrasonic record cleaning machine would be a better investment. You'll get less cl... | |
| Time, Wear, and Technological Evolution @OP Ed. Excellent. I would start with them 2ft from the wall and gradually move them out until you find the best balance of soundstaging and bass response. Let us know how it goes. And happy birthday! | |
| Any issues with bundling power cables together? There will be increased inductance if the power cables are bundled together. That's generally not a good thing. | |
| Is more amp power always better...? @OP A power amplifier is basically a modulated power supply, so the quality the amp's power supply is more important than its power output. Quality watts don't come cheap so you should not buy a bigger amplifier than you need. 60-100 high quality ... | |
| Time, Wear, and Technological Evolution @OP - good experiment but the results are what you would expect. Do try blocking the ports and moving the speakers closer to the wall and let us know how you get on with that. | |
| Time, Wear, and Technological Evolution @OP, then a smaller speaker might be the solution. The LS 50s port is tuned to 50Hz, which might not be ideal, but its in room response does fall off quite a bit from 40 to 100Hz. You could also try a non ported speaker like the ProAc Tablette 10,... | |
| Time, Wear, and Technological Evolution @OP Regarding your query about the longevity of the speakers, generally if the speakers have no audible defects then they could work happily for a good number of years. One caveat, I don't know the particular model of speaker but around that time ... | |
| **Advice Needed**Damage To Imported Speakers** Disputes relating to damaged goods following shipping are generally with the shipper and not the supplier.unless there is fairly categoric proof that the goods were damaged before shipping or (possibly) that the supplier was negligent in how the g... | |
| Seeking Legit Cartridge Expert? @OP As you have an ML in your system, you should listen to a Umami Blue - sounds great on everything but it is a big sounding cartridge with great dynamics so very well suited to rock. | |
| Would you buy a pair of speakers by just looking at the measured freq. response? Actually, speakers are the audio component where there is the best correlation between measurements and sound. However, I would never buy a speaker based on measurements, because, while they tell you a fair amount, they don't tell you enough. | |
| Vinyl Records - Shipping, max/min temperatures There is still some insulation value in the cardboard boxes and truck they are shipped in is probably not going to be much colder than an industrial warehouse, where, I am sure there are lots of new vinyl records stored for distribution. | |
| Using PA Speakers In A Home "Audiophile" Application! @benanders. You touch on an important point, but particularly with regard to electric music. The use of compression in recording limits dynamic range relative to what you'd hear from a live band. In addition, not always, but a lot of the time, the... | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs Jakob Dylan - Seeing Things Ian Dury - New Boots and Panties In classical Haendel Duetti et Cantate Da Camera on Harmonia Mundi is one I keep coming back to along with... The Film Music of Ingmar Bergman (Mozart, Chopin, Handel, Scarlatti) by ... | |
| Using PA Speakers In A Home "Audiophile" Application! @OP, just coming back regarding the Yamaha speaker you posted. While the specs mention "full range", that speaker is actually for what back in my live sound days, we would call a 'vocal PA' i.e. really designed for sound reinforcement of vocals, g... | |
| Good measuring DACs vs. DAC measurements are the least reliable of all, especially since they tend to concentrate in the D rather than the A side of the DAC. As per Erik Squires, most modern DAC chips measure excellently in terms of their linearity, so most of the curren... |