sleepwalker65
Responses from sleepwalker65
| Clean Power without the drawbacks of Conditioning Filtering. Advice? Geoffy The Fuse Troll said:By far the best solution is the Magnan Audio DIY plug in capacitor bank solution. Geoffy, really now. Hel-loo! Rpt Hel-loo!! Capacitor banks are not going to filter diddly on an AC branch circuit. They are required by el... | |
| Audio Repair - How long do you expect to get yours fixed? It takes as long as it takes. With uncommon parts, a repair shop might be waiting for a week or two or more if on back-order and/or coming from overseas. Anything from china or Japan takes a minimum of one month, often two months. | |
| Need a Record Brush. Got a recommendation? Still use my Discwasher from the early 80’s also, and it still works great. | |
| Turntable cuing light IKEA makes a small gooseneck LED lamp called “Jansjo” that I put beside my turntable. | |
| DIY acoustic panels? It’s not necessarily a compliment to say about a young woman she makes her own clothes.Geoffy “Toiletbreath” The Fuse Troll has spoken. | |
| Drink of choice for serious listening? Geoffy, (or shall I say “Toiletbreath”?) I heard correctly. They said Geoffy the Fuse Troll very specifically drinks out of the toilet. | |
| Drink of choice for serious listening? @geoffkait said:Pappy fetish? This thread could have legs. Joe for me. Always looking to stay in the sweet spot. Not too little, not too much.Gee, Geoffy, I heard you only drink out of the toilet 🚽. | |
| Drink of choice for serious listening? Rum (Captain Morgan’s white) and Diet Coke on the rocks. | |
| Discontinued equipment that you wish were still here. What do you miss or think will miss? Great gear that’s unpretentious, all analog and doesn’t cost more than a 3-series BMW. That’s what I love about my vintage NAD and Technics gear. | |
| Does impedance of a speaker change when one bi-amps? The impedance curve of the speaker is separated into two pieces: high and low. The amplifiers only get one of those respective load curves. With most bi-amp-able speakers, the low cutoff feeding the midrange and tweeter is still in the circuit. Li... | |
| Your Forever Pieces? What and Why? My two Technics SL-1700mk2 turntables that i recently restored and my Sony TC-K570 3 head cassette deck. | |
| Any good reasons to use transistor phono stage and line level preamp instead of tube ? Transistor based phono stages are better for the aforementioned reasons and because they don’t produce even ordered harmonics, which while pleasing to many ears are a fault of tubes. | |
| What are fuses used for? @phillyb asked:Why the put downs? If he heard nothing so what. It is his money and his experience. If you heard a huge improvement then good for you. Leave it there.You have to know the motives of Geoffy the fuse troll. He is all about defending h... | |
| Technics prototype silicon platter mat - anyone heard it? Silicone I think, not silicon. | |
| dead cartridge? Darn the Luck ! ! ! It doesn’t matter which channel you switch the phasing on. Left or right, choose one only and enjoy. |