bpoletti
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| Spring-Loaded Screw Turns Drywall Into Sound-Absorbing Panels @optimize - A room must ABSOLUTELY BE COMPLETELY DEAD in order to NOT distort the recorded signal. ANY room contribution to the sound is a distortion.Anything other than a DEAD room will distort the sound. Absorbers, diffusers and the like need ... | |
| Spring-Loaded Screw Turns Drywall Into Sound-Absorbing Panels Let's think this through. The drywall is already tightly screwed to the studs or joists. The drywall will vibrate based on the dampening effect of the studs or joists, the thickness of the drywall and the size of the open area of the drywall tha... | |
| LYRA DELOS IS AMAZING!!!! You will probably like the Delos even better with a top notch phono preamp. Start looking for a Herron VTPH-2a. No longer manufactured, but you might get lucky on the used market. I'm currently using a Lyra Skala with the VTPH-2a and find no n... | |
| Should I switch to a larger room? For a 10x12 room, I would suggest placing 8 to 10 artificial ficus 5' trees behind, between and beside the speakers and one on each side and slightly in front of the listening position. Maybe one behind the listening position. These will break u... | |
| LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING What the OP is describing sounds more like a poor setup. Tracking force too light, VTA way off, arm mass way too light. Nothing can fix a poor setup except improving to a good setup. That's why there are turntable setup specialists. | |
| What speaker has the best tweeter? All of my designs have made the tweeter sound like the best one. It's ALL about the design and the crossover, using the right tweeter in a given design.That said, there are dogs, but most soft dome tweeters and decent ceramic tweeters can be tame... | |
| LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING @jeffvegas - You are completely correct. The delos is a terrible cartridge, way to thin and bright. There's NOTHING wrong with your system.I'm in a particularly charitable mood. If you can carefully repackage the cartridge in its original box w... | |
| How to remove scotch tape brown residue from album covers The best way to remove those ugly stains is with a scissors. | |
| My Apologies to Miller Carbon I leave my SS amps on all the time except when I'm away from home for more than a week or so. I hear a definite difference when the amps are repowered and it takes several days for the amps to get back to peak performance. I am leaving on my pri... | |
| Herron VTPH-2A discontinued @au_lait I didn't know the VTPH-1 had a silver faceplate. I thought you could get them in any color as long as it was black. I saw the other VTPH-2 faceplates, but ended up choosing the brushed silver. Matches my VTSP-3A (r03). My M1 amps al... | |
| Need opinions on ceiling reflections I would get 10 - 15 5 foot artificial ficus trees and 2 to 4 7 - 8 foot artificial ficus, as leafy as possible. I would position two tall trees and enough small one behind the speakers to "hide" the green wall and a tree in front of the wood pane... | |
| Gimbal vs unipivot tonearms I might add that different arms behave differently. Not all gimballed arms will be as good as the latest (last) Jelco, probable some better. The JMW-12 arm is an early VPI design, much improved over the years but still better than many. | |
| Gimbal vs unipivot tonearms I lived with both gimballed and unipivot. Own very good VPI JMW-12 arm, two arm tubes. They are quite difficult to get "just right." And I still found the sound a bit lacking. The arm is on a VPI Aries Extended table. No particular difference... | |
| Ok, but does your audio gear have rotons (metamaterials)? I use natural rotons that spin in a positive direction and filter out all those unnatural rotons that spin in the left direction. The left-spinning rotons are almost in the same category as bad electrons. All it takes is a special cryogenically ... | |
| Do I NEVER shut it off…? @terry9 You said "Not this science."That is NOT science. NOT the scientific method. ALL science must be subject to skepticism, and observed data. Just because a narrative fits a political agenda does not make it science and immune to review. |