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| Need some help picking my first MC Cartridge @jasonbourne71 Wow, you're running an old-school, stiff MC in maybe the lowest mass tonearm ever. How's the bass? | |
| Need some help picking my first MC Cartridge You absolutely cannot go wrong with a Hana, EL, SL, or ML, since you have an appropriate step up device. I have also had A-T and Ortofons in that price range. I liked them both, for different reasons. The Ortofon had either greater detail or a mor... | |
| The Audiophile Upgrade Easiest to Ignore I have tinnitus and the usual HF loss associated with being 70. I have tried several hearing aids, which have mostly varied from hideous to absurd. The best are the Nuheara IQ Buds from Australia, which offer a customized hearing test, and the ful... | |
| I am streaming , how can I play music when provider goes down. Xfinity - goes down more than a $20 hooker on payday. That is an intentionally crude statement in hopes Comcast might realize how embarrassingly poor their service level is. | |
| Probable PayPal Claim I fund my PayPal account with a PayPal MasterCard. Not only to I get a couple points back, when I have an issue, and I have, they are right on it. I recently found numerous small fraudulent PayPal account transactions going back several months. I ... | |
| Amplifier and Speaker A/B switcher Of the switches mentioned, the Van Alstine is the only one supporting level matching. Without level matching there simply is no way a comparison can be valid. As for colorations, any the switch might potentially introduce would be the same across... | |
| Direct Drive TT...vintage era....sleepers.... +1 for the Kenwood KD-500. *3 for the JVC QL-7. Demonstrably better than the equivalent Technics or Denon. | |
| Can anyone explain what a power tube does inside an amplifier, eg kt88. A vacuum tube is a device that uses a small input voltage to control a larger output fed by the resources of the power supply. Typically, the high voltage low amperage output is then sent through a transformer to become a lower voltage, higher a... | |
| Focal Aria 948 For a fun read by Henry Kloss on Hoffman's Iron Law, I recommend this article from Audio magazine, March 1971: https://klhaudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/loudspeaker-design-hofmans-iron-law-by-henry-kloss.pdf | |
| Focal Aria 948 Josef Anton Hoffman, the 'H' in KLH was an audio engineer with a storied career that included working on the Manhattan Project in WWII, after which he returned to school at Harvard where he earned his PhD. In his career, he worked at KLH, AR, and ... | |
| RIP Jimmy Buffett Listen to "A Pirate Looks At 40" for a real insight into the man. Also, fun fact: Besides F. Scott Fitzgerald, who is the only other American author to make the NY Times fiction and non-fiction 20-Ten Bestseller list? Jimmy Buffett. Yeah. He was t... | |
| what is the theory behind maple stands and racks? Go check out the 'boneyard' of your local granite/quartz/marble countertop fabricator. They'll have all kind of options for very little. It's only when they cut and finish the edges does it get spendy. I like quartz because it's a mineral filled r... | |
| Best way to clean glossy finish on speakers? Use a high quality car wax. For light swirls and scratches, use the same methodology as for car detailing. FWIW, I also use car wax on all my guitars to protect them from skin oils and acids. It works on tools, on my Weber grills, especially in H... | |
| Speaker and Cable Suggestions Please A lot of nice speaker recommendations. Here's mine: The Monitor Audio Silver 300 7G. It's nearly identical big brother the 500 7G was given Stereophile Class A status for a reason. The 300s work better in smaller rooms, and don't have to be so far... | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? 1) Bi-wiring is BS. Period. 2) "Passive Bi-amping" is BS. You’re still delivering a full range signal to both the LF and MF/HF passive crossovers, the unused half of the signal is just turned to heat. 3) Horizontal Bi-Amping allows for hybrid am... |