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    Solar Cell electricity effect on Audio???

    The noise is audible.
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    Solar Cell electricity effect on Audio???

    You can start with an isolation transformer and a filtered power strip for good measure.
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    Solar Cell electricity effect on Audio???

    Inverters are noisy devices so filtration is a must.
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    Master Tapes - Genuine or Fake

    Why do you'all continue to overlook direct to disc pressings?
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    Best turntable under 50k?

    My old RX-5000 Air was made around 1980. I don't remember any other table offering it until later.
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    Best turntable under 50k?

    The Japanese designers of these wonderful tables of course.
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    Which Brand Have You Owned for 20 Years?

    Accuphase and Micro Seiki.
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    Best turntable under 50k?

    This hasn't been my finding. All that have heard it will tell you that the SX-8000 II is clearly in the same class as the AF1. But I do agree with your findings on the knife-edge SME's.
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    Best turntable under 50k?

    I have heard it a few times, but not in a comparison, and only once with the proper copper tonearm cables where it sounded spectacular.
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    Affordable ethernet filters

    I am going to have to hear more ethernet cables before I can determine if they are distorting or influencing the sound or not. It seems to me that digital cables influence the sound in a different way than analog cables do.
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    Affordable ethernet filters

    Can you explain the difference between these cables?
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    Affordable ethernet filters

    I am using a flat 5e that most likely came from a seller on Amazon. I don't hear any cable-induced shortcommings.
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    Best turntable under 50k?

    I have certainly heard this for myself when I began using top level Micro Seiki turntables. But upgrading from a Grace to a Micro Seiki tonearm on my more humble BL-51 has given me a similar leap of improvement, although a smaller one but still an eye opener.
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    SET amp owners thread

    A slot-loaded open baffle multi-parallel woofer design in push-pull configuration can give you the best compromise of all design types with the right amount of EQ.
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    Why are the WBF servers so slow? PLEASE READ FOR FINAL UPDATED ANNOUNCEMENT

    All day yesterday for me. Check your logs for flooding and denial of service attacks.
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    Initial impressions of my tonearm plus cartridge upgrade

    Well, I have played 12 records now, and it is coming along nicely. Only time will tell how much more it will open up. But I have never before heard an MM cartridge that reproduces timbre so realistically. I can tell you that this cartridge is far better than it should be for the price it...
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    SET amp owners thread

    It is custom built by David Yee.
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    SET amp owners thread

    I have an OTL SET headphone amp employing an early '60's Mullard 6DJ8 and a late '50's RCA Grey Plate 6AS7. It powers a set of JVC HA-D990's, and utilizes a Numark EQ for correct frequency response with the Shure replacement pads. Does this belong in this thread?
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    All that is wrong with "HiFi"

    Yes.
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    All that is wrong with "HiFi"

    All digital recordings up to now contain noticeably less resolution than the original performance, and they also sound distinctly different as well. Redbook CD is a highly lossy format which discards a rather large amount of "least significant bits". I have argued for years that PCM digital...
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    Most Musical AND Refined vintage cartridges

    I am no stranger to the Grado's, and had the low output Platinum on the list of potential cartridges.
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    Initial impressions of my tonearm plus cartridge upgrade

    Four albums on it so far, so it has just begun its break-in cycle. How long would you say that it takes to be free of stridency?
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    All that is wrong with "HiFi"

    This can only be true when the recording is accurate to the sound of the original performance.
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    Best turntable under 50k?

    Indeed, and the BL-51 is highly underrated.
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    All that is wrong with "HiFi"

    No. Accuracy only sounds correct with a handful of recordings. Nearly all recordings are flawed, which is why J Gordon Holt said down with flat. Musical fidelity has no relationship with accurate reproduction. It is a quest to get to the heart of the music by creating a musically immersive and...
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    All that is wrong with "HiFi"

    Digital is definitely the single biggest driving factor here.
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    All that is wrong with "HiFi"

    It's about being immersed in the music. Hifi detracts from this goal. I have created the terms music-fi and musical correctness to differentiate the two.
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    Initial impressions of my tonearm plus cartridge upgrade

    I am going to be testing different custom alignments to see which sounds and performs the best with this cartridge/tonearm combo. I am currently using a VTF of 1.8g with a level tonearm.
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    Best turntable under 50k?

    I use to have the air version of this table with a stainless steel platter. I replaced it with a BL-111 Air which I find to be warmer and more musical.
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    Best turntable under 50k?

    And technical specs are all that matters, right? Where have we heard this before?

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