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    Steinway & Sons Spirio Self-Playing Piano

    There is nothing new under the sun. As many of you know the player piano has been around since the late 19th century. Some great artists recorded 'for it.
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    Disapointong record purchase.

    There are some informative Utoob videos about contemporary mastering and pressing facilities in South Korea and the USA. It appears that the former is more meticulous and perhaps has higher performance, eg., W&F standards. Search for them if you like. Has anyone ever heard South Korean...
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    Dishonesty in the Roof Coatings Industry

    Hey Mark - sorry to hear about this. I'm waiting for the insurance company to make me get a new roof!
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    Amplifiers for MartinLogan Renaissance ESL 15A

    For purity of sound, mono Benchmark Media Systems ABH-2s. I believe that Benchmark and ML have Show-shown wares together. Otherwise he could go with Soulution or Accuphase class A. These have strong European support for warranty and the like.
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    Phono cables - the most sensitive and critical cable in your system

    Nice setup. I doubt the brand of (balanced) cable had anything to do with the sound; this is not your point I surmise. Given that you are running 25' balanced from the phono preamp to the preamps/amps, I submit another reason for better sound, perhaps the most substantial one, is that the...
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    What ethernet cables are members using?

    Thank you for a cogent and informed opinion. Spend the extra $ on room treatments or music.
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    What ethernet cables are members using?

    I use a 50' Cat 8 Ethernet cable from one of my Nighthawk modem/router 's 1000 Mbs ports to the ethernet port on a purpose built/stripped Mac Mini (16Gb Ram/1 TB SSD).The cable was made up for me and installed by a friend who owns a commercial cable installation company. The modem is attached to...
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    What Cartridge(s) Is Everyone Using

    Thank you for the lovely picture. What are your impressions of the Accuphase AC-6?
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    Power Cords for Sound Lab Speakers

    Do the U-1s have the Bass Focus panels? What other components are in your system?
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    Power Cords for Sound Lab Speakers

    Sounds promising and sensibly priced. I'll give them a try.
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    Best speakers at low volume

    Consider trying a preamp with a Loudness Control.
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    My personal journey to MY SONIC LAB

    Since you asked the question, how would you describe your AC-5 compared to the other cartridges you have? How do you think the AC-6 will differ? There is a review of the AC-6 by one of the German magazines that you can find on the Accuphase web site. Edit: I just found your thread about the...
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    Choosing a DAC with a good VC - Lampizator Pacific vs EMM Labs DV2 vs MSB Premier

    FWIW given experience with well-engineered Meitner products I think the DV2 is a sensible contender. I especially like his emphasis on DSD/DXD. The DV2 might be a treat in your tube system.
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    Choosing a DAC with a good VC - Lampizator Pacific vs EMM Labs DV2 vs MSB Premier

    It appears that there are 'DACs of the week' - part of the hobby, I guess. As a contrarian, I suggest something from a venerable company, the Benchmark Media Systems DAC 3 L. It comes with a volume control and a remote.
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    Cable Modems

    No buts...
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    The 6 ways of power filtration

    0) Variac: First developed by General Radio aka Genrad in 1933. Original design function was to vary the AC power voltage, eg, 0-140V, to see what were the characteristics and tolerances of the DUT or design. With audio equipment a Variac stabilizes voltage which is a boon when one sees...
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    Setting up long term storage vinyl rig. Well Tempered Reference/ Zyx Airy 3 SB

    Who would you suggest is a competent third party to rebuild a MC? I heard that SoundSmith takes an inordinate amount of time, there is that fellow allied with VPI, a fellow in Australia, and someone in Connecticut who I think is on US AudioMart. If you sent it off now you'd probably get it back...
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    Single box CD player

    I have an Accuphase DP-570 also. It is a wonderful eumatic piece of gear, complimenting my BenchMark Media preamp/mono amps driving Sound Labs with aplomb and transparency.
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    LP-12 owners: What's your favorite cartridge?

    When I had a Linn LP12/ Ittok, I used a Fidelity Research FR1-mk3F. Decades later I changed it for an Ortofon Kontrapunkt B that I still have today. The Ortofon is a wonderful cartridge. Unfortunately I sold the LP 12 to a friend. Happenstance never allowed me to purchase a Linn MC whilst I had...
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    LP-12 owners: What's your favorite cartridge?

    For fun, I'd like to see a 'family tree' of who 'built' which cartridges. I recall Supex and Lyra are in there somewhere....
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    LP-12 owners: What's your favorite cartridge?

    Although fiddling around with equipment is part of the hobby, I've always liked the 'systems' approach of the LP12 family.This applies to the tonearms and cartridges also. It takes only a few minutes to properly set up the higher-end Linn MCs up in the higher end Linn tonearms.Here is a review...
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    What ethernet cables are members using?

    FWIW there is an iPhone app called EMF Detector. It has some florid prose accompanying it - I'll avoid living under power lines. I'm sure the app is 'cheap and cheerful' versus some laboratory test equipment.
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    What ethernet cables are members using?

    Thank you - please click to the link at the left for another review of the EtherREGEN not posted on the vendor's website - sorry I missed it the first time. Have UpTone performed EMI and RFI testing/certification on this device? If so, could you kindly post whatever you can? The 'cure' is...
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    What ethernet cables are members using?

    Can you please define 'threshold jitter'? How is this different from plain vanilla jitter? How does leakage current produce it and in what magnitude?
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    Cable Modems

    Neither. 2.4 GHz is supposed to have more send/receive range than 5 GHz. One should not confuse the over the air broadcast frequencies of 2.4GHz and 5GHz of wifi with the 1 G, etc. of cable or thin wire ethernet specs which is a data rate, sometimes bits and sometimes bytes. Please remember...
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    EMM Labs DS-EQ1 Measurement Data

    1. 'The DS-EQ1 uses a switching power supply, which results in a peak at roughly 70kHz (see FFTs below). Our typical bandwidth filter setting of 10Hz-90kHz was maintained for THD measurements; however, for noise and THD+N measurements, a 10Hz-45kHz bandwidth was used, to ignore the 70kHz peak.'...
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    Vacuum Record Cleaning

    Thank you.
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    Vacuum Record Cleaning

    I have the opportunity to pick up a new ultrasonic. (I used a VPI 16.5 with good effect also but sold it to a friend.) Could you outline how your ultrasonic is better than the VPI? Any tips and tricks? Thank you.
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    Clearaudio TT2

    How is the TT2 different from the Clearaudio Statement linear arm/turntable system? In your eyes, is the TT2 an improvement?
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    PayPal Refund? No Refund of Processing Fees! How do YOU like to pay?

    I had a similar experience recently with an honest buyer. What is ironic is they base their anti-fraud system on one my team built for them (and a zillion banks all over the world) when I was a Director at a big data AI software firm before I retired. I didn't need to show my passport to vote.

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