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| DIY Spekon Cable For Rel If you have the SpeakON cables and need more length, why not splice on more wire? 18 ga. is all you need. A good Western Union splice on each conductor, some shrink tubing, voila! | |
| WHY DO SOME AUDIOPHILES TRY TO TELL OTHERS WHAT THEY CAN OR CAN’T HEAR IN A SYSTEM? It’s always been a matter of defining what “the threshold of audibility” is. The experimental psychologists have run double blind studies with samples of normal subjects, and come up with answers we audiophiles accept in principle, like a 3dB diff... | |
| Is a Fluance RT 85 turntable worthy of a moderately priced moving coil cartridge? The only Fluance turntable that has crossed my path had noticeably loose arm bearings. This might be a peculiarity of the sample and not common to other units. Check yours for any play in the bearings, and if found, investigate whether it can be ... | |
| A great has died Saw The Band live twice, first In Central Park at a Wollman Rink concert. Garth’s extended intro to Chest Fever went on and on, to universal delight. Next at Watkins Glen with The Allmans and The Dead. Absolutely love their music! The Brown albu... | |
| So I Just Bought a Cassette Deck So what deck did you buy? | |
| Favorite scream in rock? Let’s not forget Janis Joplin on Take A Little Bit of My Heart, Cry Baby and others. | |
| Identify, repair or replace mid range speaker in B139 based setup If repair is not possible, check with Madisound for near equivalent replacement. You may need to re-create the closed back chamber somewhow. | |
| McIntosh MT5 tonearm swap out? FWIW, I tried balanced vs. unbalanced on a PhonoBox DS3 with an AT OC9XML and found there to be no discernible advantage to the balanced connection. It was noisier than I liked either way. I switched to a different turntable using unbalanced and ... | |
| My wife weighed in…she wants piano white tower/bookshelf Focal Sopra No.2 in Carerra White…$21K per pair. Easy to drive, easy to love. | |
| Amplifier used w/ headphones and no speakers connected, can it be damaged? In my 50 years of audio sales, the advice has always been…no problem with solid state, and no good with tubes. One instance where solid state can have an issue is with amps lacking a common ground. When I was in college, I had a Quad 33/303, nei... | |
| 3 tone control integrated amp/preamp I think a “midrange” tone control is too undefined a parameter. I use a C-J line stage that has EPL loops…same as tape monitors…and a Schiit Lokius to help add or subtract color from recordings. Not as good as parametric but way simpler to use. ... | |
| AR XA turntable needs new cartridge... The original XA had a silicone oil damped vertical bearing, and a simple sleeve horizontal bearing. Even if you have maintained these with fresh lubricant, the friction is higher than you’d find on most new tonearms. If you haven’t maintained th... | |
| Bluesound Node130 LPS upgrade... I got the LHY LPS for my N130 and it went together easily and has performed flawlessly for over a year. I use it with USB out to a Mytek Liberty DAC. I like a lot of small boxes on my shelves! | |
| Upgrading my integrated amplifier for my Magnepan 1.7’s Money to burn? Upgrade to MG 2.7i…the ribbon will “elevate your listening” more than swapping amps…especially when you have a GaN FET already. | |
| Phil Lesh I’m not a concert going kind of Deadhead…only saw them once, at Watkins Glen…but I love their records, and Workingman’s, American Beauty, and Blues For Allah are my faves. Side 1 on BFA is genius level musicianship, and Phil was a big reason it. ... |