zaikesman
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| Speakers for very near-field listening? Go to a pro sound shop that sells studio equipment. There are many small speakers made for mix monitoring that are specifically designed to be heard in the very near field, such as being placed atop the same mixing console the engineer works at. (... | |
| resistors in series/parallel questions... Bob, I've been using the suggested 1/4 watt value for replacement loading resistors in my Camelot Tech Lancelot phonostage's sockets (they are Vishay VHS model, as recommended by the head tech guy over at Conrad-Johnson, who are located near me an... | |
| Are your used items selling? Unsound: Maybe try clubbing some baby seals - the Twl touch might rub off on you.;^) | |
| No more music CDs without copy protection Unsound, I don't disagree with the substance of anything you have said, just some of your extrapolations.1) "Zero degradation of what?" - Zero degradation of the bits on the disk when copied to another disk. I am not looking at this issue from an ... | |
| How much fluid do you use Well, I can't criticize that Lugnut, seeing as how the drugstore isopropyl I use is 70% alcohol, 30% water. (Actually, this ratio seems about ideal in terms of cleaning power vs. staying power.) My dad always used the photo fluid like you recommen... | |
| No more music CDs without copy protection In all seriousness, the record business really does have a problem on its hands which is different in absolute terms from previous episodes. It actually doesn't seem as if they forsaw, when they made the move to digital all those years ago, that o... | |
| How much fluid do you use That would be very interesting if true Lugnut, but I doubt it, because all the garden-variety rubbing alcohol I buy lists water as being the only other ingredient besides isopropyl alcohol (C^3-H^8-O), and it seems to evaporate without leaving any... | |
| How much fluid do you use Lugnut, why do you advocate for denatured alcohol? "Denatured", as far as I know, simply means that the lab-grade alcohol has additives included in it designed to make it unpalatable in order to discourage ingestive abuse, and that it is usually b... | |
| How much fluid do you use For maximum cleaning (and this is not really a necessity if you're mostly buying new/sealed quality pressings), buy a good hand-held brush such as the Disc Doctor makes, and do your cleaning by hand on a flat surface (or some use the Alsop Orbitra... | |
| No more music CDs without copy protection For better or worse, there will not be much must-buy new music to complicate the issue. Love them used records! | |
| resistors in series/parallel questions... I take it this is for a MM/MI cart? | |
| What do you think about this cable company? I think Ohlala had this right the first time around. Your return in this misadventure would have been worth exactly what you invested in it - had you not gone off the deep end and upgraded, as you would have us believe, soley for the proposed 'rev... | |
| The Heat Is On I can verify the cherry darkening phenomenon, from a dining table my folks had custom-made, many years back when I was a teenager, from 40-odd year old air-dried cherrywood logs (that's how long the wood had been drying in a barn before it was bou... | |
| My wife touched my turntable - help please I have decided to commence work on a 'ferntable', a decorative coffee table covered with potted ferns, in order to inject some oxygen into the listening room. | |
| MIT Love 'em or Hate 'em What can I say, 6chac? That was for Asa, and was supposed to be humorous. I don't mean to be unresponsive, but I don't mean to further respond, either. My take on all this sort of stuff was laid out by Asa above, as I unfortunately dared to make c... |