zazouswing
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw Barrett is the place to start, in my option. The Madcap Laughs is EMI trying to fit him into a box and present as a traditional band - Barrett is a bit looser and follows Syd’s vision - whatever that may be at the time. All are worth owning... | |
| where I can buy tubes to my ALLNIC PRE (3A/110A and 3A/109B) +1 @mwood - what he said. I’ve gotten several dozen pre-war tubes from him over the years. No issues, and they out perform new production any day. | |
| Question about adjusting the balance Going back to the untreated room - different tones reflect and build up in a room differently due to different wave lengths. Could it be that lower tones are being reflected and build up on one side or the other while higher tones are being absorb... | |
| Hum in speakers, and suggestions for stopping it Have you tried unplugging everything in the shared circuit to see if there is a specific culprit? Put a meter mic on the speaker and walk around unplugging stuff with a stopwatch. If the hum exists in the wall but not through the power plant, my w... | |
| Are you on or off? What say you? +1 @sfar. What they said. @mahgister You flinched in the last line. “Perhaps” = on | |
| Speaker placement Quandary I have the worst shaped house possible. I listen to over 60% mono and any setup with speakers to tight to the back lost depth - and with mono - that is your soundstage. The difference is more noticeable in mono. My compromise was a room dedicated ... | |
| Real or Surreal. Do you throw accuracy out the window for "better" sound? Unfortunately, I think it is song dependent. Lean one way and you find some tracks that make you long for more detail. Lean the other way and your looking for more bloom. Maybe some have more normalized feeding habits than me, but any system that ... | |
| Cable management....crossing at right angles or Agree that this shouldn’t matter - other than phono cables. If you’re really experiencing a problem or want to be anal - a little trick from the world of Fire Alarm notification wiring - where this does happen often and is heard. It requires cust... | |
| Room Too Dead When I was researching a Home Theater room, I seam to recall an article about how 2 channel listening is more dependent on a balance bawneen reflections and damping whereas an ideal theater room would be very 'dead'. I believe the concept be... | |
| WHY DO PEOPLE FEEL THE NEED TO COMMENT ON CABLES AND EQUIPMENT THEY HAVE NEVER HEARD? Thirsty. I think the word is thirsty. After Cat 5 cables, it’s what makes the internet work. | |
| Tube measurement question... Those are testing numbers. The bias should be set based on the amp manufacturer’s recommendations. General rule of thumb is you shouldn’t exceed the recommendation, but going lower is OK and prolongs tube life. | |
| Building a 100 album vinyl collection 3 must have albums are? Mezz Mezzrow, Sydney Bechet, Tommy Ladnier, Sydney De Paris - The Panassie Sessions Please - 1968-1969 Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea -Alternatively- TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain | |
| Crossing Left and Right Speakers I was always of the general impression that soundstage was a relationship between space (audio reflections - both as captured in the recording and from our space), time (frequency - and how it interacts with space and nth order reflections), and o... | |
| Bad news for home theater enthusiasts I’m going to start stocking up on VHS myself - my analog retirement plan. See cassettes. | |
| First Tube amp suggestions The first tube amp foray for me was a Yaqiun MC13S - or something like that. It was a - I wonder if this is any good - moment. I still have it. 40 wpc push pull, El 34 design. Nothing bad to say about it other than it ran through power tubes prett... |