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| Manufacturers with great customer service I was going to say VPI, but a customer should not have send countless emails, countless follow ups, suffer continuous excuses, experience delays etc….but in the end they come through. Is this good customer service, or does the end justify the mea... | |
| Wifi Extender and Mesh - Configuration Tweak Please note, if you are using the TP Link wifi extender that uses your existing power line to transmit the wifi signal to remote areas in your home, it will inject noise into your power lines that can be picked up sensitive audio components - espe... | |
| Bowers and Wilkins Kevlar Age Discoloration, Restore? I’m only speculating, but the silver colour on the D3/4 could be a coating on the Kevlar to protect it from uv rays. | |
| Bowers and Wilkins Kevlar Age Discoloration, Restore? Kevlar is naturally yellow-gold when new. Surface discoloration usually indicates UV degradation, which causes the colour to darken and reduced tensile strength. Unfortunately, UV degradation cannot be reversed. Kevlar should be shielded from d... | |
| Speaker Positioning The beauty about speaker placement is that experimentation is free. Use the manufacture's recommendation as a starting point. Speaker placement is VERY room dependent. | |
| Reed 2G magnetic antiskate @lewm Testpilot, there is only one coefficient of friction for any two materials, in this case vinyl vs diamond. It is my understanding that your statement is true when measured under a controlled set of parameters. Coefficient of friction ... | |
| Reed 2G magnetic antiskate @lewm , to add to your 2 contact stylus tip patch argument, that is exactly why using a blank/groove less disc to set anti-skate is a flawed approach. Two point stylus contact vs 1 point of stylus contact i.e. two different coefficients of friction | |
| Experience VPI Dragon and/or Mark Levinson 515 turntables @jasonbourne71 Oracle and SME have a long standing commercial relationship, therefore, your SME suggestion is a good one along with sending the table back to Oracle for an update. | |
| Experience VPI Dragon and/or Mark Levinson 515 turntables @jasonbourne71 , yes the Delphi is a great turntable and the ET2 is a great tonearm, but together, they aren’t the best match. The ET-2 has very high horizontal effective mass. A Oracle’s floating sub-chassis wants to sway horizontally.These two... | |
| Experience VPI Dragon and/or Mark Levinson 515 turntables @elliottbnewcombjr a few points of clarification to your post Any pivoted tonearm that has the cartridge/tonearm wires constrained by either an rca termination, lemo connection, internal DIN plug will generate a torsional torque whenever the t... | |
| Vacuum Tube Snake Oil Salesmen Send the defective tube to UPS, they have a lot experience in smashing stuff. | |
| "Too much gain"? (Cary SLP05 question) @avanti1960 do you know how the Cary modification reduces the preamp’s gain? Do they increase the value of the cathode resistor in the first gain stage or reduce gain by lowering plate-load resistor values? | |
| top 5 NEW production 6sn7 tubes Top 5? I’m not sure that there are more than 5 factories / manufactures left worldwide that produce 6sn7 vacuum tubes JJ Electronic . New Sensor / Reflector Shuguang Psvane ?? | |
| Why a Wilson-Benesch speaker is smaller and lighter than a Magico of similar volume More mass | |
| I need the correct way to bias new tubes in my ARC VT100MK111 AMP When replacing power tubes, be sure to turn down the bias when inserting the new tubes to prevent the possibility of red platting. Once inserted and warmed up (at the lower bias level), only then can you increase the bias to the manufacturer’s sp... |