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CORRECT AC POLARITY
June 17, 2009 — puristaudio System set-up
"I wanted to talk about a tweak that costs little or nothing to do, while having the potential of paying big dividends in terms of sonic improvement. It involves a ...
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This material is courtesy to Mr. Shibazaki, the owner of Sibatech Shop in Tokyo, that sell internationally Japanise Hi-Fi equipment.
http://www.sibatech.co.jp/
I hope that Sibatech people are more decent then our american distrib...
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why you feel you should show off with your equipment and it's price tags (on a-gone) rather than results, but that's your choice. It's a thread about FR7 and the funny thing is that in your show-off list above you do not mention it.Since you know the...
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Romy,I have reported the issues I have with my PP here, though that was quite a while back. I do not have anything as severe as you suggest: I do NOT have ANY transient issue, meaning I cannot hear any click or pop or whatever when an external device...
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The silence after the performance, or in your mind during performance if you can pull it off, is the place where the music can freely communicate without the distractive fury and bombast of the sound. Maybe that's why the silence (nominal acoustic pr...
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Who has had success with active amplification of very low level signals (like LO MC output), apart from Boulder 2008 and super-expensive lab-type equipment?It seems like the safest path (that's still reasonably affordable) for LO MC lift-off is a (pa...
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I suppose you'll also be the first person who ever returned one...But now you have me thinking about the "motor" and/or a big 220/110 step-down transformer. Laboratories use these things for their test equipment, so there has to be an off-the-s...
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I have built quite a few bass horns and found any thing over 1/2 inch ply wood reinforced is all you need, in front of your baffle. If you had ever built a few on your own and had the right equipment to test you would realize this, but when your a ha...
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I just purchased a techni-stat ionizer. I've noticed these things in the lab where I work for years and it just finally dawned on me to try one. I couldn't talk myself into the $500 retail but I found used on eBay for $50. Here's the techni-st...
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This week Romy was kind enough to invite me over for a few days for some Apprentice work and philosophizing. As I alluded above, my Apprenticeship contribution consisted principally of moving some audio gear, searching for some esoteric stuff hidden ...
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Hi Roberts, Romy and others,Before this thread vanishes in undeserved obscurity, I have a question or two for you. I understand that the issue is a complex one and should be addressed with more care and paying attention to detail than I am do...
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I was playing more with precision of my MF channel and I became convinced that I should not do it anymore and I should get better interfaces between the frame and the MF horn. So, I have decided to get a positioning table. I have absolutely no knowle...
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I got home today, power up the payback and played some bootlegs of Australian festivals that Kostas Metaxas sent me another day. I paid attention that the sound was strange it was too hard atop. That was something new. I put in my player the CDs...
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[quote user="darkmoebius"]I asked Jim Hagerman how long it takes to break in interconnects, power cords, speaker, cables, and preamps? He replied - "Usually about 40-50 hours on a FryK. The amps are fastest and get most of the way overnig...
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[quote user="N-set"]Sorry for being naive, but may gathering spectral fingerprints of the electricityduring bad and good days give something? Perhaps after N samples some pattern might emerge, although I guess nobody knows what to look for.[/quote]Ac...
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Romy, as you know by now, most small generators are toys, really not suitable for our purposes. I have no idea where or how you found the perfect old small generator, but starting with what you have, if you can get all the wiring right, you just mig...
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It is interesting: in NY’s concert I picked the NPoR’s recording of Pathetique issued by DELOS DE-3379. I never seen this CD anywhere (it is too new – 2007 February) and it is not even listed in Delos catalog. If you were fool enough to miss the NPoR...
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For many years I have habitually "rocked" tubes gently in their sockets (when the equipment is off!) in order to "better establish the electrical connection". I suppose I have done this hundreds of times with no problems, apart from three fairly rec...
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Yes, Romy, it is certainly an info-mercial first, with all the usual flash/buzz "facts" in play. Also, although all "studios" I know of are "balanced", many of the "hot-rod" studio guys also use all sorts of "power conditioneers". For one thing, it...
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For some time it looks to me like "the industry" has been sliding into a sort of Audio Dark Age. However, "the industry" continues to use more or less the same approach to promoting their stuff that they've always used. Certainly, despite the insane ...
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but you have just +/- described an approach to cooty fighting that is already pretty popular with the tech-ies out there. This general idea is the basis for some very sophistocated attempts to quiet lines used for lab equipment, including ...
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Incredible that you have the gall to post here, tout your delivery speed, and completely fail to acknowledge the surrounding posts from people saying that you have taken their money / their equipment, held it for an unreasonable amount of time, and w...
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The problems with Smart Grids
by B. Blake Levitt and Chellis Glendinning
How is it that so many intelligent, inside-the-beltway environmentalists are buying into an eco-health-safety-finance debacle with the potential to increase...
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I just ran across this quote from Mr. Fremer, circa 1999, and I doubt much has changed on this front:"Sitting in my listening room auditioning this $3995 Premier 15 phono section from Conrad-Johnson—a process that I made sure went on for months!...
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From Larvy Site:Features like a USB input, programmable settings, infrared remote capability, and the proprietary >PiC< Playback Image Control™ make the DA11 more than just a great sounding DA converter. In keeping with the Lavry Engineering tr...
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I was asked a few days ago what I think about Zandèn new CD player and I replied that I do not think about it.
Truly, those companies produce new models each 18 month to initiate new rounds of cash extraction from clueless, deaf and blind audi...
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Paul, another my spin a little off the subject but since it has to do with your current dealing with ML2 I would express it here.
Since you use some tube gear then why you agree to be a slave of random circumstances? Tubes have problems – they go o...
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I guess I would like to be able to do something better than anyone else - and still be better after 100s of years.....My take is a bit difference. When I perform with players with a Stradivarius violin, it isn't the violin that is impressive - up clo...
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Hi romy,Haven't spent too much time on your site the past year unfortunately, but always check in from time totime to see what direction tou are heading for the moment!For 2012 i have gone into ready- made acoustic system which iabsolutely love' no t...
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I no doubt fall into the category of the 70%. My playback has not been as satisfying as I would like. Many of us do not know where to turn when we hit a brick wall with extracting the best results. The default reaction is to look for a piece of equ...
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