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Herman, please do not think me rude when I do not respond directly to your questions. I have responded even though I am not personally interested in your posts because I hate to see you just dangling there, for days.Regarding your approach: It's eas...
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Gentlemen, I can only hope to be wrong on the air-borne feedback.Actually your project Anthony made me think of coming back to my Staxquiades project - a Milq inspired monster amp for my Stax headphones. Do you have a source of big PSU Nichicons at ...
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From your description, it sounds like you are experiencing the (predictable) effects of tying all the filaments (and cathodes!) together. Utah Bob already gave some good, proven suggestions for preventions/remedies, a couple of posts up the thre...
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I know it is a difficult subject but as it has to do less with audio but more with life priorities. Still, the practice indicates that the short-wall installations for acoustic systems of the topology that Steve is trying to make will never work. Sur...
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Djjjj,you completely misunderstand what this website is. It is Romys personal diary. It is not a DIY blog, it is not a venue for commercial exposure. I recommend that you first read the posts on the Macondo axioms, then rethink why the ESD would have...
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Hello Johan, Great pics, the diaphragm appears really thin, almost like gold leaf for guilding...I have a question about the screw mount that Goto uses. Did you by any chance find some kind of flange (for pipes) that would work as an adaptor? Pe...
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The logic here is that to be able to play and appreciate a Stradivarius you have to make it yourself. That is too hard a line. There are plenty of basic things that the vast majority of installations get wrong. We are talking about lifting the baseli...
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Now Alex , don't be a Sissy Groupie. Josh's posts here were perfectly fine and his Macondo review is perfectly valid and absolutely valuable and it's telling that you do not grasp why. The only slightly questionable thing is his conduct as a man and ...
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Devo, the GM-100 for sure is a good triode to get 160 watts
output power in A1. Still, it would be a good chose, from my point of view,
ONLY from a prospect of embracing as good DIY audio project. There is nothing wrong
then to do the good DIY aud...
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Rick, good question. Probably few people at this forum think seriously about power supplies; you might get more answers on DIY forum. Of course, the only thing we care about is our experiences with the Music, however that happens, which certainly doe...
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Petar, I might have just been tired, but I thought I saw a pair of "likely" 3.5" paper tweeters, and I played the hypnotized consumer and bought them, to start with my adaption education. It might be a while before they get here, but in the meantime...
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I also got tired of reading all the DIY posts on the S&B 102. And yes, I have done the numbers, and it would be possible to adversly affect bass with high impedance feeds and/or long, bad cables feeding this unit, coupled to ...
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[quote user="N-set"]I do not know the guy who has written it, maybe he is an idiot, but anyway I'd defend his page.As far as I understand he is a DIY-er (?) who attempted his own TT, inspired by high mass belts.Well, that's life--we all have to make ...
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Of course, the object is to be sure you never have a situation where HV is on while heaters are off, whether switching "on" or "off". And the usual DIY way to do this with totally separate PSs is...separate switching. If this or a similar approach ...
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Thanks, Romy.Although I am most certainly not a DIY/electronics whiz, and have no aim to be, I can +/- read a schematic and I can solder OK, have a de-soldering gun, etc.Yes, there's no question that these sockets are poor quality...
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[quote user="Paul S"]...Certainly, in the end, I have "rated" my own systems on Musical "Satisfaction", which I put in quotes because what keeps my interest at any given point in time seems to vary, at least somewhat. Hard to imagine stopping on one...
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Hello Romy,I should have made myself more clear about the paragraph you quoted. Typical situations:a. The arm is installed on a deck that accomodates more than one arm. The listener, if lucky, has two(for all intents and purposes) identical cartridge...
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[quote user="Paul S"]How do I hate DIY? Let me count the ways...[/quote]I hate it just as much! Paul, thanks, but most of what you are talking about has been already addressed and described. Perhaps not very visible frommy pictures but I'm a very poo...
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The interesting thing about the Bottlehead people is that they are pretty good guys. "High and outside" is I think Paul Stubbelbine, who is an expert at mastering. He remastered my girlfriend's last album. I was very impressed. His ...
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A dog is much more like audio. In the beginning, it is not trained and pees and bites, jumps up - all sorts of primitive behaviour. BUT, unlike a cat and very much like Audio, it needs to and can be trained. In fact, a new dog MUST be controlled. It ...
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Hi Romy and GuyI've been checking out various plinths for my new DIY project. The project's base is a Technics Sp-10mk3 motor unit.When you say a materials 'frustration' I guess you mean the choice of alloy and the quality of the casting? Inproper ca...
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The "lack" of HF is definitely one of the wonderful things that makes one think of spending 30K on a phono stage. Glad to hear you are "suffering" a similar "dirth" of HF [noise] with your DIY corrector.I wasn't going to say anything, but I won...
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MFA e-mailed me aknowledging that I was perhaps going to try the DIY way getting a "raw" transformer from S&B and offered me assistance. The "problem" is that their unit with a gain selector and load selector is way too expensive for my budget (1...
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Looks like the phase response is quite complicated, with two phase flips between the knee and the Fs notch, but the PR phase eventually comes back to be in phase below the Fs:
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am sure we have all heard that a passive radiato...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Tax,
do not go over yourself with “building paranoia”, looking for drivers, horns, boxes and etc. If you are looking for 80Hz to 200Hz range (you will need higher upper knee for AG Dou) then you do not need a bass d...
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[quote user="Paul S"]The usual "trick" to "stop inductance" of wire wound resistors is the "old double-wound trick", like those offered by Mills:
http://www.soniccraft.com/index.php/resistors-mills-c-29_53
(and I think it is much the same for capac...
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The only reason I don't have a giant WE system is that I can't afford it and I don't have room. I sold all of my WE and Lansing field coil gear to my Silbatone friend back in 1989, because I know he would never sell it, he was putting together a ser...
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I have to admit that some of my opponents might consider my organizational views on high-end audio too socialistic and will recognize in my view some residues of me growing up in socialistic society. Leaving aside the prejudicial and completely fooli...
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Hi Romy,Well maybe it is that the answer. My mono is pierre clement eb 25 broadcast cartridge, the original not the contemporary remake. The output is extremely high, almost overwhelming my phono amp I have the impression. Also, it tracks very heavy...
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I have been adding and reconfiguring gear recently and I will be needing a 6' digital cable very soon, when I add batteriy power, so I just went ahead and bought one of the "Synopsis" remainders Romy mentioned.This $5 discontinued Belkin blue ca...
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