spatialking
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| $35000 to $40,000. speakers what would you buy and why? Everyone has their favorite speakers. Over the years I've owned quite a few and eventually sold them after deciding I couldn't live with their subtle distortions. Eventually, I ended up with Shahinian Acoustics Diapasions with two subwoofers per... | |
| Power conditioners The lower frequency for the cutoff requires larger and more expensive components. This is why some companies chose a higher cutoff to have a less expensive product. In this case it's up to the PSRR rating of the downstream electronics to keep the... | |
| Battery powered front end @mashif The issue with the toroidal transformer is a bit of offset in the sinewave input. Offset is essentially a small amount of DC voltage. You will need to add a DC blocking circuit, which will fix the problem. Frankly, a good inverter wi... | |
| Power unit recommendation Why do you feel you need to upgrade? Is there a problem? It appears to me you have a working system, why throw money at it if you don't have a problem? | |
| Best practices to clean the binding posts on your speakers and amps? The Deoxit cleaner and preservative is the ticket. It's superb on electrical connectiond from MC phono leads to speaker terminals. Noalox is a compound made for copper-copper, copper-aluminum, and aluminum-aluminum connections. It consists of t... | |
| Subwoofers - crazy upgrade! Years ago I was using a Shahinian Acoustics Contrabombarde stereo subwoofer. This monster was two folded 16 foot conical horns in a package a bit smaller than the size of two footlockers. The horns were double slot loaded. When I cranked them ... | |
| The Shunyata Research OMEGA-X-Ethernet Cable @kirkwallace Unfortunately there is no fiber in this area. Given our proximity to Silicon Valley, one would think we would have fiber. Nope. What we have is 1970 era twisted pair wire. It's so noisy, my FM radio in my car quits within a few fe... | |
| Power conditioners @larsman It is true there is no one measurement that correlates to what we hear. The THD Wars back in the 1970's didn't help anything either. But the fact is, the vast majority of ugly distortion mechanisms can be measured, if the engineer is cr... | |
| Power conditioners All of today's technology for EMI and Surge suppression has been around since the late 1970's. What's improved since then is a reduction in size, cost, and a potential increase in power handling capacity. Just like any other analog circuit desig... | |
| Changing audio beliefs In my very early days of audio, I used to prefer loudspeakers with a lot of presence. Then, as I could afford concert tickets, I realized music didn't have that in your face presence. It simply floated there. Since then i moved away from loudsp... | |
| Custom turntable belts Thanks!! I'll do that! | |
| The Shunyata Research OMEGA-X-Ethernet Cable I've had somewhat different digital problems than what the folks previously posted. I started with Xfinity cable service. The installer ran used the previously installed cable that ran 150 feet around the house to the modem. Circa 1970 cable, wh... | |
| Did Koetsu Quality Decline with New Ownership The fact that prices of cartridges peaks after a series of good reviews is not new. Back when I worked in the high end industry, a solid positive review became a license to print money, so to speak. Nothing new, 40 years later. Let's face it, i... | |
| Will Cardas 6mm spades fit current Pass labs amps? Why not call Pass Labs and ask them? They would probably know! | |
| Modify Power Cord with 90 degree IEC plug for ML? You can get right angle IEC connectors at DigiKey. Com. Make sure the opening fits your cord diameter. They aren't that expensive. Make sure you wire it correctly!!!! |