terry9
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| Newbie With Magnepan 1.7is I too drove Magnepans with Bryston, which sounded very good. | |
| Newbie With Magnepan 1.7is Mazerunner, you have made a superb choice in Magnepan. You have obviously used your ears to guide you to the best choice for the money. I suggest that you continue in this wise.Especially with cables. Try before you buy. Every time. What I have al... | |
| Rare and non-heavy advertised Ribbon \ Foil cables? Philip, you are asking the right question for speaker wire. According to Maxwell's Equations, two ribbons with wide sides together, are the theoretical optimum for speaker wire. It's the current that makes inductance your main enemy for speaker wi... | |
| For Old Timers who experienced the "Golden Age" of Audio of the 60s and 70s. BDP - yep.I had one of the first Tympani 1a's, in 1973. What a speaker! Biamped with ARC crossover, modified ST-70's, and solid state monos. The Quad ESL's were just not big enough for me then, or now - so I have several copies of the new crop of ... | |
| Direction of aftermarket fuses (only for believers!) Nice quote, Jea. I find the same thing when I quote mathematics. Everyone's ignorance trumps my expertise. Ah well. | |
| I'm happy but I want more, more, more Bill, I too have an all analogue system. Upgrading my monoblocks just cost a bunch, but that good result was no more impressive than a $10 tweak.That tweak was resonance control on the tonearm. I used some sticky gel, the stuff used to tune drum k... | |
| 1 pair of good interconnects- which 2 components should I use them on? Hockey, be a little careful if you decide to solder cables. Most of the better cables have teflon (PTFE) dielectric, and teflon is bad stuff when it is heated. Completely stable to about 450F, then begins to decompose into some of the nastiest che... | |
| Upgrading tubes You might try a 6DJ8 variant which was specified for the high end of its day: Tektronix, HP, German Post Office. By far the best small signal tubes I've ever heard were Telefunken 6922's, specced for HP test equipment, the stuff that put men on th... | |
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? Halcro, you ask if I run OTL. Well, I did, and they sounded fine, but I decided on home brew, where cost is less of an object. Before building anything, I decided to optimize the system (instead of the pieces thereof), and found that I could impro... | |
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? I propose that Ralph be enrolled on the calendar of saints. His restraint is supernatural - a miracle thrice renewed!! | |
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? Well, Ralph, your explanations are perfectly intuitive to me. When I replaced my TT plinth, a rigid coupling of the platter bearing and the tonearm seemed intuitively obvious - I used a sandwich of heavy, precision aluminum plate, with the bearing... | |
| Has there been any inexpensive item that enhanced your system's sound? Dramatic changes playing with resonance control, on the motor pulley and especially on the tonearm (Trans-Fi air bearing). The Koetsu changes character from mellow to aggressive, depending on the application of small fragments of sticky jelly pad,... | |
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? Ralph is absolutely correct. It follows that the tonearm and the platter must be in communication, and the faster the better. Beryllium anyone? | |
| InfiniCaps or V cap upgrades for ARC LS7 I agree with DG. MIT makes caps that sound good, mainly the RTX (styrene and tin) and PPFXS (polypropylene and tin). Before spending big bucks, you might want to try some smaller valued caps in your system, and see what works in your system. Some ... | |
| Do supertweeters matter when we cant hear past 15,000 hz? Sorry to be late to the party Veroman, but better than never?While I think that just about everything already said is true, there is another aspect to consider: the crossover. As Ralph (atmasphere) points out, rolloff causes phase shift, which is ... |