clearthinker
Responses from clearthinker
| Possibly Dumb Question re:Battery as a power supply I don't see much likely benefit in powering a TT by battery. After all, the TT just goes round and round. Wow and flutter figures on current good TTs are vanishingly low. I have seen no evidence that battery power lowers them further.But poweri... | |
| Why so many tubes? @czarivyThe speed of your car is not dependent on its cylinder count. | |
| Fuses What are you on man?I suggest a double blind test, independently monitored.Then come back here if you get anything.@antigrunge2 A few of these bright coloured fuses cost nearly as much as a house. | |
| "Power Cords-More Recent" Wow baby. $400 was a lot of bread for a power cord in 1999. | |
| 16 bit vs 24 bit vs 35 bit vs 36 bit vs 64 bit DAC sampling Yes 16 bits is plenty I agree.But the sampling rate is much more important.As every high school math graduate knows, the wave form of digital sampling is a jagged zig-zag saw, like an endless flight of stairs. The little triangles at created by j... | |
| How hot is too hot? I run Class A. I wouldn't leave it on when not listening. The heat will shorten the life of components, particularly capacitors that will dry out.I wouldn't bother with a thermometer, if it's too hot to hold your finger on it, that's too hot. | |
| Speaker Recommendation up to 70k 10 pairs of Moabs? Not.You could travel back to civilisation for a few days and audition the contenders? 70 large is a lot to lay down on the opinion of people like me. | |
| You can go home again Most of us accept that audio memory is very short and pretty poor.So where sounds are closely matched few people can reliably distinguish in AB tests even where A B and X are presented at very short intervals. Some here try to perpetuate the myth... | |
| Speaker impedance patterns - how to read them? @martinguitars Hope you're back on thread. Don't feel picked on by miller, he can't help it, he does it to everyone. He will never reform, he thinks too much of himself. Best to just ignore him like the rest of us do.In almost all... | |
| High Fidelity Cables, why most threads about them got deleted I guess HFC have sneaked one of their guys in as a moderator.Anyhow, like most sane people I'm sitting on my $23,000 thanks. | |
| SET the best? NO | |
| You own a store, you sell 2 brands, which? You can't make money out of a bricks and mortar store that stocks only two brands. | |
| What angle should I set the VTA on my VPI turntable? Miller: "...I lose interest in tweaking..."SURELY NOT !!!!! | |
| Advice on dedicated room We are all agreed you need to make the room more oblong.Why not build a separate storeroom on one side for records, books, equipment, whatever.Build about 5-6 feet wide reducing the 16.5ft dimension.Clear all the crap out of your room.I did this w... | |
| A turntable that plays all types of music well Red fuses for Simply Red.Yellow for 'The Yellow Shark'.Green for Peter Green. And Al GreenPink for Pink Floyd. And Joni MitchellBlue for Miles Davis. And the MoodiesBlack for Black Sabbath.Brown for Arthur Brown And Jackson BrownCrimson for... |