terry9
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| Amp — Leave on or turn off RV, I have repeated your experiment a number of times with the same results. On longer always sounds better, but with diminishing returns, for about a week. Its’s true of my DIY phono/pre - it’s on all the time. It’s true of my DIY Class A amps (... | |
| Upgrade My Turntable - How Much Do I Need to Spend? @pindac Should have cited you. See above. | |
| Upgrade My Turntable - How Much Do I Need to Spend? I appreciate that it might be difficult to accept that isolation does not matter in my case, and so might not matter in other cases - but - (1) I just made an azimuth adjustment of 5 minutes of arc, and now can hear no reliable difference +/- 2 m... | |
| Upgrade My Turntable - How Much Do I Need to Spend? About isolation. Another opinion. It depends on where you live and where your turntable will go. I live far from main roads, far from rail, my foundation is on granite, and my TT connects directly to the foundation. I don't need isolation - you m... | |
| Smaller plug-in AC Purifiers -- Shunyata, iFi, Puron...something else? What do you like? An isolation transformer beats the lot - but it's pricy, and not that convenient. | |
| Do You Buy Speakers Without Hearing Them? So far, only from brands and technologies that I have owned and liked. Scanspeak drivers for the sub, Magnepan DWM for mid bass boost. But as you point out, the days of auditioning are fast disappearing. | |
| Easy Come Easy Go…….BOOM! Glad you made it out in one piece. Good luck! | |
| What qualities stand out in really good solid state preamps? RE: non-clicking volume control - the problem is that you waste a lot of what the preamp circuit can do. The only way to get the most from your preamp is to use the volume control to control gain. That means resistors. All the best resistors are d... | |
| What qualities stand out in really good solid state preamps? @soix +1 Not so secondary issues would be warrantee and serviceability. Bryston excels here, at the expense of the last iota of performance. IMO | |
| Power questions I defer to expert knowledge, and you're the expert. | |
| Power questions Consider an isolation transformer beside your main panel. It made as much difference in my system as an upgrade of a major component. But they can be noisy, so best sited away from your living spaces. Also eliminates need for special power cables... | |
| Jim Winey (Magnepan) has passed away. Taught me the difference between music and hifi in 30 seconds (Tympani 1a). Thank you. | |
| B&W 805 D4: which 5 channel power amp should I go with (home theater): Parasound or Rotel @jaycee12 makes a good point. We are buying parts and service as well as finished product - we are investing in trust as well as (this week's) function. | |
| The Sound Quality Of Commercially Pre-Recorded Reel-To-Reel Albums @8th-note I think that it depends on the kind of distortion which you can tolerate. I don’t mind wow and flutter, but it drives other people bananas. The audible high frequency ’fizz’ that sits on top of almost all digital recordings, like the c... | |
| The Sound Quality Of Commercially Pre-Recorded Reel-To-Reel Albums @crustycoot Yes, an A77 is easy to improve, and the half-tracks running at 15 ips were a fine transport. I did some recording 20 years ago with Rode mikes, and the results were excellent. Female vocal is superior to anything on my air bearing TT. |