fsonicsmith
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| My New Year’s Wish for my fellow audiophiles. This community is a big part of my love for audio so thank you and right back at you-and to all of the rest of you. | |
| A little deeper on amp power please.... I think that is why there are class D amps now that are shutting down class A solid state designs for sheer musicality. Ralph, others have posted here and there with the question "what is meant by musicality?". They do so because the word is va... | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? Oftentimes a radically different design seems jarring and ugly at first and then with time it grows on you. It is integral to human behavior-we are initially drawn to the subjective impressions we are accustomed to. One need only look to automobil... | |
| Manley Chinook SE MK2 By the way, as regards the autoformers in the Steelhead, I get the feeling that my Steelhead sounds best through its MM outputs, where there is no autoformer in the signal path. Interestingly, in the Steelhead, I have read (never tried it) that y... | |
| Manley Chinook SE MK2 Happy holiday and a healthy new year to you Lewm. | |
| Manley Chinook SE MK2 From the owner's manual to the Steelhead; An effective means of varying the load seen by the MC cartridge has been included in the form of a 5-position rotary switch. This switch selects various taps on a specially manufactured dual-primary bi-f... | |
| Goodbye Everyone Elliott, keep a positive spirit. I don't say this in a vacuum. Short story-70 mph Camaro hits cyclist broadside and cyclist goes flying 50 feet like a frisbee and breaks tons of bones. I was not in the Camaro. | |
| Phono Stage_Skoll-by Schiit Audio It resonates (pun) with my own observations. Adjusting load is very easy with my phono stage and I have two turntables hooked up to it with two very different cartridges installed on each. With changing the load I primarily hear a change in gain b... | |
| Phono Stage_Skoll-by Schiit Audio I originally had the loading set to 200 Ohms resistance in the EF-1. I got some bug to change it, most likely from reading some posts here in regards to loading.....47K (basically unloaded) was not the way to go with a moving coil.... We all li... | |
| Happy Birthday Keith Richards. Having watched the Willie Nelson 90th birthday special last night, the reality of aging was on full display. I kept trying to stay awake for "Keef" to come on but gave up. It has to be mostly a matter of genetics to a great degree affected by fort... | |
| Garrard 301 motor and rumble Thanks Lewm and Ralph. Ralph for your candor and integrity and Lewm for giving me some needed perspective and advice to settle down. Ralph is a prime example of what is good on this Board-sharing information and assisting others when asked. It... | |
| Garrard 301 motor and rumble For the love of God, can someone else denounce the man that keeps issuing proclamations of fact like some decrepit Medieval king from his throne for the bag of hot air that he is? He seems to know just enough to be dangerous and no more. Much of ... | |
| Garrard 301 motor and rumble @mijostyn I previously thought that you were knowledgeable and just needlessly argumentative. Now I see it is much worse-you are entirely ignorant. No, you just have to replace a noisy idler wheel every couple of months or so. Garrard and ... | |
| Is There Just One Single Album That Does It For You, Completely? Just One. I am thankful for NOT seeing; Van the Man's Astral Weeks Eagles (anything) but particularly HC Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. Back to Steely Dan, as Aja is to them, Brothers in Arms is to Dire Straits. | |
| Is There Just One Single Album That Does It For You, Completely? Just One. These recurring threads are silly and fun at the same time. Aja? Walter Becker kept his platinum award in the outhouse to his Hawaii studio. And for good reason. It does not hold up. Add to that the simple fact that Donald Fagan was an anal-comp... |