herman
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| Measuring A Capacitor I would first try taking a single interconnect and connect one input to the other. That might be enough to shield the input and if the hum stops you know it is coming from outside. If it still hums no need to sacrifice anything. Plug an interconne... | |
| Measuring A Capacitor I think you got bad advice. It is very common to get hum from a phono section with a ground loop, missing ground, bad connection, etc. That section has very high gain compared to the other inputs so unless things are just right it will hum. Even l... | |
| CD's you bring for auditioning Sorry, came in late and didn't read all the way through. | |
| CD's you bring for auditioning Thanks Rsorren, I appreciate the detailed response but I'm afraid there a few crucial details missing.1. Which recording of "White Room?" There are probably a 100 of them.2. Which Dianna Krall album?4. Larry Carlton has a bunch of CDs on his websi... | |
| CD's you bring for auditioning and those select cuts and elements tested by each selection would be ?????????? | |
| Last song on most LP's pressed with compression I believe what you are hearing but I don't think you have the correct reason. The faster the record is spinning the easier it is to get good sound. That's why 45rpm pressings sound so good. The outer velocity of any record is over twice as fast as... | |
| Mark Levinson 36 dac or Theta Gen V Best? You are looking at DAC designs that are about 15 years old. Great in their day but that day is long gone. | |
| IMHO, not enough gain in my Phono stage You have mis-identified the issue. I would argue that your system has too much gain for your CD not too little for the phono. In an ideal world you would have the volume turned up to full blast just as it reached your desired volume level. Having ... | |
| Can we go back to 33's please? I have a number of these and almost all sound better and some sound stunningly better. If the best fidelity matters then these are the best.Why collect them all? Well, at least as of now when they go out of print they tend to go up in value. That ... | |
| MC and Step-Up Cartridge Loading sorry, did it in my head and flipped the ratio over. | |
| MC and Step-Up Cartridge Loading I agree with Al's math but my gut (+ experience) tells me that the 2nd approach of a series R is the more evil of the 2 since by forcing this tiny signal to flow through a series R you are dividing the incoming voltage by 2:3 after stepping it up ... | |
| MC and Step-Up Cartridge Loading You have 2 issues, gain and impedance. If you lower the gain to 10:1 to raise the impedance you may not end up with enough gain. The 167 ohm assumes that the MM input has an impedance 47,000 ohms, which would be typical. This is usually controlled... | |
| We Need an Affordable Record Flattener If you find a good record for 99 cents that would be perfect except for a little warp why would you not want to flatten it out if it was easy and the cost was low. The 2 pieces of glass I use in my oven works great. However, as stated above, if it... | |
| We Need an Affordable Record Flattener not a device that requires a huge amount of R&D or rocket science grade components. but how many can you sell? If the market is small the price must be high because there is no economy of scale. Still, it is an interesting idea. Seems like you... | |
| Itunes - Keep Files Organized? iTunes has a music folder where it puts anything that you rip. The defualt location on a Mac is USERNAME - Music - iTunes - iTunes Music but you can change to any folder you like on any attached drive. Changing the location does not move or copy a... |