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| Phono cable/grounding/loading questions 1. A dedicated phono cable is usually lighter guage than a std. IC to carry that minute signal. It generally uses two identical conductors for signal-- which might not necessarily be true of a general-purpose IC, where shield could be functioning ... | |
| Best place to buy tubes Many successful retubes via tubestore.com. They are also helpful on the phone. | |
| LCD Screen Size Just wait a bit longer. With a Vizio 50" plasma with a Faroudja scaler and 2 HDMI inputs now priced at $2K MRSP (and receiving praise in this month's The Perfect Vision), it won't be long before $1K buys a large flatscreen. The Chinese LCD factori... | |
| Miles Davis Box Sets: Mosaic LP -v- Sony CD My only direct comparo was between the Plugged Nickel LPs and the compilation CD that was issued at the time. The CD sounds good, but with the Mosaic box LPs you are IN the session-- remarkably vivid & alive sounding, even relative to the best... | |
| Battery-powered transports If I'm reading the spec sheets correctly, the Yellow Top has the edge over the Red Top associated with slightly lower internal resistance and deep cycle capability (meaning it can be discharged to a lower voltage without incurring damage; the low ... | |
| Battery-powered transports I can try to answer this question from the perspective of my Sony project, where I took cues from pro modders like Reference Audio Mods, VSEI, and Richard Kern, and added my own tweaks. In selecting a mule platform, the analog section of a CDP doe... | |
| Battery-powered transports If you're handy, a Sony SCD-1/777ES transport section (or virtually any manufacturer's transport) can be converted to run on 12V batteries. With the Sony the motor can powered by an unregulated 12V battery & the 3.3V and 5V DC regulators for t... | |
| sub for $3500 or less Trying to optimize deep bass in the 15hz-30hz region without a frequency analyzer and digital EQ such as found in the Velodyne is like piloting a submarine without sonar. Without such tools you can spend months playing around with subwoofer setup ... | |
| sub for $3500 or less Horseface,Velodyne tech support claims that in an audiophile 2 CH application, the DD-15 and DD-18 sound faster & less distorted than the smaller 10" and 12" versions. Appparently the larger cones present an easier load to the plate amp. I'm u... | |
| Any Reliable SACD Players compete with Sony SCD777 What is wrong with your 777ES & what have you done to "service" it? Pretty much everything needed to keep the transport assembly lubricated and up to spec can be done by the hobbiest with only modest mechanical skills. It's unlikely you'll fin... | |
| DIY Interconnects review jd, The reduced skin effect compared to round wire is what attracted me to foil as well. .005" thick ribbon is pretty easy to work with and will not wrinkle when heat-shrink tubing is collapsed around it using a heated clothes iron insulated by a ... | |
| DIY Interconnects review Fascinating quest for the grail... I've tried just a few DIY designs myself, and have been particularly impressed by great-sounding DIY ICs and speaker cables made of copper ribbon pulled through clear heat shrink tube (5 mil x 1/2" for ICs). Just... | |
| MERLIN VSM OWNERS WITH SUBS In a somewhat smaller room I have one Velodyne DD-15 and VSM-MX/BBAM with line-level connections to the sub from a BAT VK5i tube amp. Since the BBAM filters all bass below 28hz, using speaker-level outputs from the amp to the sub is not appropriat... | |
| who surprised and who disappointed Miles Davis live circa 1972. He played with his back to the audience for the entire concert. But I was a teenager & didn't really understand what I was hearing. There are certainly times an artist needs to turn away from the audience and play ... | |
| Radiohead, Night 2 Toronto Saw them 2 yrs. ago in Philadelphia. One the best arena concerts I've seen, equal to the Who and the Clash in their prime.Dave |