mswale
Responses from mswale
| What do the statistics say about the age of Audiophiles and the replacement rate? From my experience, it's usually older people at any of the Audio stores I go to. Just turned 50 this year, feel like I'm the young guy. This was especially so when I went to my first Audio convention. I think with the availability of music ever... | |
| I feel for you Your system sounds so much better when you put all that sweat equity into it!! But no, really, my entire system sounded so much better after giving everything a refresh of caps, diodes, resistors, and transistors. | |
| Dusting gear and turntable Having destroyed a needle trying to clean my TT, got more of a hands off approach now. Also never going to buy anything Piano Black again! Impossible to keep clean. Actually used car care products on my TT, got a ceramic spray, that I spray on a... | |
| Sound room humidity Interesting, never really thought about humidity changing sound. Usually do it for comfort, static reasons. Here in the PNW, we have had a colder winter, humidity has dropped into the 20%, my skin hates it, my plants hate it, my TT really hates ... | |
| Are upgraded power cables for subwoofers worth it? Used to be the power cables don't do much camp, then I tried a few power cables. On my HT setup, I noticed that after installing PC's to my SUB's and amp, that the power draw on my power conditioner went up, quite a bit. At idle everything is dr... | |
| The best opening act you've ever seen & heard? 1991 Rocky Point Theater in RI, hold about 2000 people. I was a little punk still in high school. This no name band opened for Red Hot Cilli Peppers Pearl Jam, then another band came on after called Smashing Pumpkins. This was before both band... | |
| Streamer Recommendations Put all your music on a USB hard disk, then plug that into a Cambridge Audio streamer. All your music, in one place, that is easy to control. streamer with hard disk (iPad controlled) - Mac- speakers. | |
| Has this ever happened to you? Happens to me all the time. When it just hit you, I star at my rack (thinking it's speaking to me) then get lost in the music. Everything disappears but the music. It can be very emotional at times. Other times it transports me to another time a... | |
| Turntable Mats for Technics Grand Class, "G" Series My TT doesn't have a mat, never used a mat, am I really missing something? | |
| Subwoofer with center channel You do not want a sub on the center channel. Male voices will be sent to the sub, and it will smear, distort, be hard to understand. Usually you cross the center over 100hz. The HT receiver will divert all bass to the subs, no need to add an extra... | |
| How often to you clean vinyl and the needle? Records get cleaned before first listen, even new ones. Needle gets ultrasonic cleaning when needed, brush it only on occasion when I see something on it. The less you touch the needle the less chance you have to ruin it. Have killed a needle ... | |
| Does anyone listen to the radio anymore? Listen to radio every morning, sometimes in the evening. Usually 4hrs a day is on radio, with my tuner. Have my local, and couple favorites saves from SF & Boston, but honestly, streaming radio is lo-fi. It sounds like crap compared to my tu... | |
| Hegel hum? all transformers humm, some very much so. Usually they are bolted in tightly, or have some elastomer in the bolt to quiet the humm. You may have an issue where the transformer has loosed up, and is being allowed to vibrate. If it has elastomer i... | |
| Need a little help ------sub NAD----splitter ------ amps | |
| SPEAKERS THAT SOUND ALIVE & DYNAMIC AT LOW LISTENING LEVELS There is so much hate for Klipsch. I get it, the lower end stuff is defiantly made on a budget. They do require a little bit of modifying to get the best out of them. Having said that, I have Forte's, every morning I'm listing to the radio aroun... |