nsgarch
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| Tightening Driver Screws The (main) reason the screws/bolts loosen up on drivers -- particularly on woofers and larger mid-range drivers, where the screws go deep into the baffle (or all the way through it, in the case of bolts-into-T-nuts,) is because the wood expands an... | |
| Any experience with RAIDHO C 2.1 / D 2 / C 3.1 Frank,As you probably remember, I'm an electrostat lover, but I can honestly say the Raidho speakers are the most 'electrostat-like' box speakers I ever heard. Avalons and Peak Consult are very close. All three are VERY expensive -- and also the s... | |
| What's the best way to soundproof a room on budget C'mon guys (Dtc, Electroslacker); the man said he's on a budget. No way he's going to rip out and re-build his wall to install staggered studs for $500 - $600! And using resilient clips and/or channels to 'float' the drywall surface works best in ... | |
| What's the best way to soundproof a room on budget MASS is the way to control (reduce) TRANSMISSION of sound from one space to another (or from outside to inside.) Adding stiffness to the dividing surface/partition can also help, but as you will discover, it's pretty hard to add stiffness without ... | |
| balanced preamp You might want to consider the Atma-Sphere MP-1 (2-box) or MP-3. Both can be ordered with a (absolutely sensational!) fully balanced differential 3-stage tube phonoamp. My amp is a McIntosh MC275 (tube) -- and since tube sound vs. ss sound is a fu... | |
| Van den Hul spindle oils for TT bearing Milimetr, I don't think the PE 'thrust pad' will be affected by the particles in the Spindle Oil if you want to try it. Only a tiny portion of the rounded end of the bearing shaft contacts the thrust pad. TT makers used to use a ball bearing as a ... | |
| HDCD Decoding ? Sonic, I know this isn't scientific, but what percentage of disks that indicate HDCD when played, would you say are unmarked 'HDCD' on the disk itself, or the case?It's interesting to speculate why a performer would keep it a secret (especially Ne... | |
| HDCD Decoding ? The biggest problem with HDCD enabled DAC's and CDP's is that the the PM chips are not that great sonically (sorry Poetcatullus) so much so that Mark Levinson (the brand) got special permission from PM to manufacture their own HDCD chips to incorp... | |
| Van den Hul spindle oils for TT bearing Milimetr, I'm glad you mentioned the matter of non-metallic bearing materials. You must not use the VDH Spindle Oil with assemblies containing plastic, Delrin, Nylon or Teflon parts, due to excessive wear AND the fact that the hard zirconium oxide... | |
| Van den Hul spindle oils for TT bearing The only oil I've used is the Spindle Oil (on my Goldmund Studietto TT) and it made a huge difference (quieter background, better bass dynamics, and almost no audible mechanical noise.) Being a DD TT there wasn't too much mechanical noise to begin... | |
| RCA to balanced John,NsgarCH, the discussion here was line out transformersQuite right John; I missed that ;~) | |
| Purist Audio, Venustas or Aqueous Hi J Mc -As I tried to express in my previous, the Musaeus model, although made of the same "stuff" as Venustas and Dominus, just doesn't provide the same qualities (even in lesser amounts) as its two more expensive brothers. Many people feel (and... | |
| RCA to balanced John-tracy is correct in that coupling caps have consequences -- don't all circuit parts? Ihe issue is which devices' "consequences" you think di the least harm, right?For neutrality, I'd personally take today's high quality caps over step-up tran... | |
| regarding shielding Pl_guy, you would connect the red to the RCA center pin (as red is customarily +) and the white to the ring (body) of the WBT RCAconnector. The shield braiding can be separated at one end, and about half the wires trimmed back to where the outer j... | |
| regarding shielding Hi Mt10425:I checked and found that the Music Meter cables are constructed of TWO wires in a "twisted pair" configuration. This works well for rejecting RFI (with no shield) but not so much for 60Hz hum (although hum is more easily controlled by c... |