zaikesman
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| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Ernie: No slam on Belden intended - just on anybody (not suggesting Corona or yourself here) who is making cables around OEM wire and then hiding that fact within some sleight-of-hand marketing scheme.Speaking of which (I've read rumors about NBS ... | |
| Omnidirectional speakers. The future? How about breaking it down to the theoretical fundamentals: What would be best if it could be perfectly realized in physical implementation (an impossibility)?>A completely omnidirectional, evenly radiating pulsating sphere (or point, if you pr... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century 707th post. Just noticed this when it popped up on the radar screen, freaked and hadta do it (I'll not be reading the other 706 :-) And I *had* thought I was a real Audiogoner...We (I and my preamp) are not worthy...(I didn't even know Asa still w... | |
| Warped record playback I agree with Lugnut that it seems fundamentally silly to pursue an analog setup designed to optimize performance on defective records, were that possible. If you go 'lowest common denominator', then what's the point of even investing in new vinyl ... | |
| Omnidirectional speakers. The future? I have always grooved to the sound of wide-dispersion speakers. I grew up in a household where my father's final listening room speakers were a pair of classic Allison: One towers, with their V-shaped front baffles that sported a dual compliment o... | |
| very cool finds,,,at animal shelter thrift shoppe. Glad to see you're having so much fun with this stuff. Which gives me a slight pang of conscience to tell you that once you've been at it for a while, you'll start to realize that a lot of the records you've been posting about are the sorts of tit... | |
| Difference between krell KRC-2 & KRC-2 HR? Vincentpiazza, I'm no expert on Krell gear, but I do know that Mets catcher Mike Piazza is an endorser of theirs. Any direct connection, or influence on your choice of brand? :-) | |
| Does such a preamp exist? The Levinson preamps like my 380S only apply gain when it is called for (about 19dB) based on the volume control position - from unity on down, the circuit actively buffers the inputs and outputs but applies no gain, and the sound does benefit. Fr... | |
| Your Favorite, Most Outstanding Guitar Solo Ask a silly question... | |
| what is dynamic headroom? Clueless: The first two articles are interesting to me because they seem to imply that differences in damping factor shouldn't matter much in audible terms, which could be seen as somewhat contradicting the notion of critical damping as explained ... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Flex, here are some Corona quotes cut and pasted from above (with some minor editing applied by me for clarity):"There is only one power cable that is truly different and commands the technology that astounds, but you won't go there because the an... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Corona: "What string theory is asserting is that all revolves around resonance" - that's a cute analogy, but neither you nor anyone else has designed anything based upon employing the equations involved in string theory. (No, I'm not a physicist o... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Corona: Are you implying that your product achieves 'unification' on the sub-atomic, electro-magnetic, and gravitational planes, while operating in 12 looped dimensions so tightly packed into the fabric of space-time that their existence may never... | |
| what is dynamic headroom? Actually Bombaywalla, there is such a thing as having too high a damping factor as well as too low - one is overdamped, the other underdamped. The ideal damping factor would be what is called the "critical damping factor", but allowing for a devia... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Must be all those years of listening to nothing but goth and speed-metal... ;^)I recommend NRBQ's song "12 Bar Blues" (from Grooves In Orbit) as an antidote. Terry, Joey, Tommy, and Big Al will step you right through it...just like riding a bicycl... |