terry9
Responses from terry9
| Would you go all 1 brand for electronics? Absolutely one brand: DIY. | |
| Turntable Recommendation 15K budget Avid Acutus, Brinkmann, Oracle, Nottingham,, Dias, Dias. Sorry, I meant Dais. | |
| Turntable Recommendation 15K budget Avid Acutus, Brinkmann, Oracle, Nottingham,, I have owned Nottingham Analogue for 19 years now. I bought one of the last Mentor tables, now replaced by the Dias. Same bearing. I recently upgraded the motor and power supply to top Dias standard. I also replaced the weak point, the plinth, wit... | |
| speaker and interconnects, how nice do I need Make your own, make your own.I would go SUPERcheap - the cheapest you can possibly buy. A few bucks. Then try more expensive cables, and see if they make a difference. You may find that cabling is the least cost-effective way to improve your syste... | |
| MQA - One Filter to Rule them All? Any electronic device still needs passive components (LRC). That means lots of room for quality or lack thereof. So yes, there will still be an opportunity for costlier units to sound better. | |
| Type of flooring in a listening room? An engineered floor can be problematic on a concrete slab. For my basement music room, my builder's supply store recommended against any type of wooden floor, even hardwood. Condensation issues, flooding issues, etc. Don't know if that could be a ... | |
| cleaning liquid for LPs I use a lab grade detergent from Fisher Scientific: VersaClean. It is specially formulated for plastics, and is ultra-sound compatible. Plus distilled water. Scientific supply houses have to provide the real goods - audiophile not so much. Hence F... | |
| Help Picking a turntable Another vote for Nottingham Analogue. Not well known, perhaps, but the quality is superb. I have used their equipment for 19 years now, and built my all-ESL system around it. | |
| Amps and Preamps has standby, but should I turn them completely off? I think it is a little complicated for a categorical response.Semiconductors do not like to be switched on and off. Neither do they like to run really hot, and some heat sink compounds can dry out.Electrolytic caps (aka power supply caps) do not l... | |
| Individual International Seller Scam Elberoth2, I thought those were such good ideas that I used them this morning. Thank you. | |
| You can only take 5 albums to a deserted Island... 1. La Spagna, BIS2. Cantate Domino, Proprius3. Laudate, Proprius4. Hearing Solar Winds, Ocora5. Wagner's Ring, TelefunkenAll vinyl. | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? I should have made clear that I agree about the "digital" aspect of many modern speakers. I do not agree about Atmasphere, who I regard as highly expert. | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? I agree, Inna. I solve that by replacing the nickel and dime components in the crossovers. A single electrolytic cap in the signal path creates an unpleasant haze of high frequency distortion, which one identifies with digital. Red Book CD digital... | |
| Audio Research Reference 6 Preamp Review Well, Don, caps make a huge difference in a finely tuned system. For example, I tested two different brands of teflon cap in my RIAA stage: one was fast and clear, one was unlistenable. Now, having brought my amps to a fine edge, I found that powe... | |
| Individual International Seller Scam Taiye, sorry it happened. Thanks for sharing.But I think that just about everyone’s been scammed at one time or another, in one way or another. And I suspect that the exceptions are those with really bad memories. |