terry9
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| Any electronic modders here at Audiogon? Some good thoughts here.I agree, a good desoldering station and a good soldering station should be your first investments. I would add a good Fluke multimeter to that. And a word of caution: beware of teflon! When teflon gets hot, 260 C, it begins... | |
| What commerical audio system tweaks provide sound quality improvement?? Thanks todd, sunnyjim, and falcon. I was starting to feel a bit lonely. | |
| What commerical audio system tweaks provide sound quality improvement?? Yeah. Right. | |
| What commerical audio system tweaks provide sound quality improvement?? Geoff, you would have to be cleaning ONE outlet, the hot one, with a material that becomes conductive, for one reason or another; e.g. wet with perspiration. That and a path to ground, no matter how elusive or invisible.And Geoff, I did not insult... | |
| What commerical audio system tweaks provide sound quality improvement?? One does NOT need to touch both hot and neutral to get a shock. All that is required is an electrical path from hot to ground. That can happen innumerable ways: damp floor, kid spilling his drink, or any other innocent means of being in contact wi... | |
| What commerical audio system tweaks provide sound quality improvement?? @geoffkait "I never turned off the power prior to cleaning outlets and am fine. I mean except for a slight twitch."Bad advice, Geoff, in my opinion.Perhaps you know enough to do that kind of thing with some safety, but not everyone does. I sugges... | |
| What commerical audio system tweaks provide sound quality improvement?? @geoffkait Make sure you turn off the power at the breaker box before you clean the outlets. PLEASE ! | |
| What commerical audio system tweaks provide sound quality improvement?? These are common on test equipment, which can be influenced by ambient radio noise because input signals can interact on some settings. For audio, not so much, although at the preamp, the tape out RCA's and amplifier RCA's can be connected. In tha... | |
| What commerical audio system tweaks provide sound quality improvement?? Quite right, Todd. I missed room treatment. Mea Culpa. | |
| What commerical audio system tweaks provide sound quality improvement?? Assuming that you have a nice system which you like, you might want to consider the following. I save my money for the physics - that is, if and only if the physics is solid and uncontroversial. Then I have been known to spend real money.Those are... | |
| "on the fly" @folkfreak "Unless you have an incredibly steady hand"Enter the Trans-Fi air bearing tonearm at $1000. VTA adjusts on-the-fly easily and safely. Azimuth and VTF not so, but they are intuitive and stable. | |
| Ancient AR Turntable with NO anti skate @normansizemore "puny little motor"Not to take anything away from masterpieces like EMT, but I differ. Maybe it’s my lack of masculinity, but I like puny little motors that I can boss around. I use motors that can’t even bring my platters up to sp... | |
| Ancient AR Turntable with NO anti skate @asvjerry "I'd go to an air-bearing arm in a heartbeat, but I don't have the disposable $ to go there."Well, I just may have the bridge for you. Kidding. I use a Trans-Fi air bearing tonearm, cost about $1000. Actually, I use two: one for my Notti... | |
| Please assure me I'm not going to burn my house down. To address your point about 24 x 0.6 ~ 15 (amps), and braiding together, the current carrying capacity of multiples depends on their exact physical relationship. That is, if insulated wires are close together, they will not be able to radiate hea... | |
| When and how did you, if at all, realize vinyl is better? Correction: tonearm is not DIY, it is Trans-Fi air bearing. Also, I say analogue, no contest. |