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| A good start on selecting cables? The Cable Company seconded; you can go through a lot of cables, listen, and finally decide which you'd like to buy - in a situation like yours, it's the only way to go unless you enjoy spending a lot of money for naught. Every system is different,... | |
| Phono preamp comparison: Herron vs. K&K While I can't comment directly, as I've always owned the fully "Maxxed-Out" version of the K&K - I will say that every incremental upgrade I've installed over the years has reaped huge dividends on the overall sound - better from top to bottom... | |
| Hammond b-3 organ I agree fully with Zaikesman's assessment of Potato Hole. I literally played it twice (to make sure), and sold it. | |
| Phono preamp comparison: Herron vs. K&K One thing I point out to everyone who tries the K&K: give it time to break in. The change up to around 200 hours of actual signal time is monumental. Things continue to get better up to about 4-500 hours. There's a lot of transformer wire in t... | |
| Pink Floyd "I've had the Pink Floyd library in hi-rez for decades. It's called vinyl."Too funny, and spot-on accurate! | |
| A $300-$400 turntable tweak I think it all depends on the table, platter composition and surface material, and the ability of the tonearm/transducer to accurately trace the LP. I have tried 6 or 8 center weights/clamps/doohickeys, as well as a perimeter ring and found that o... | |
| when do you replace capacitors? Resistors are inert and don't really change over time (they can drift in value from thermal stress, but that's another matter). Capacitors are a different story. Electrolytic capacitors are the ones to change; film types tend to last a very long t... | |
| Best CD I've heard so far 2011......... On the LP format...The Cave Singers - No Witch | |
| Direct Tv music channels ans use in audio system "but the sound quality is pretty bad - thin and lifeless..."Given how much information "broadband" (CATV, sat, FIOS, etc) providers try to shove down the pipe, it's simply a case of 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag...no surprise. | |
| Best drink while listening to your rig? Ithaca Brewery "Flower Power" IPA, as of late... | |
| turntable motor speed The above should have been 'once you pair the controller and the motor'. No, the problem (for me) is long-term drift...such as the table running fast or slow up to 1 or 2% over the course of a side (we're talking simple voltage regulation-style c... | |
| turntable motor speed No. This is nothing more than a lab-grade highly regulated DC power supply. It's the motor itself that varies in speed, regardless of the accuracy or "purity" of the incoming voltage; you can put a $10K DC supply in front of the "best", most expen... | |
| turntable motor speed Yes, the change in speed in a DC motor is directly proportional to its voltage input: more volts = more speed; less volts = less speed. A 24VDC motor typically exhibits its nominal operating characteristics (speed, torque) when operating at its ra... | |
| Listening distance Since stereo reproduction is a psychoacoustical phenomenon, I tend to move forward and back by around a foot while listening depending on the recording. My thought is that the perceived soundstage for any given recording is dictated by the person ... | |
| American made cartridge anyone? From the 20 June 2010 Financial Times: "The US remained the worlds biggest manufacturing nation by output last year, but is poised to relinquish this slot in 2011 to China thus ending a 110-year run as the number one country in factory producti... |