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In the Thread: Attempt of a playback systems debugging.

Post Subject: Debuging a completely unknown system...Posted by Axel on: 8/14/2009

can this be anything else but futile?

1) If analogue the first thing be the cart, if digital the payer?

2) If analogue the phono cable being the MOST important one in the whole system, and could yield some noticeable improvement.

3) Has the system got a pre-amp? Is it maybe playing with a variable output CD player?! Or is it an integrated amp and what is it all - solid state or tube?
To know this might give some indication whether it is a source issue.

4) Is the power condition known to be stable, does it sound the same late at night?

5) Are we using 'lamp-cord' to drive the speakers?

6) Is it a 'chip-board' speaker that swamps the treble with bad 'water-fall' box-resonances?

7) How it the room's acoustics, over-, medium- or under-damped. has any acoustic treatment been tried or already applied?

8) What speaker topology are we talking? 3way, 4, 5, D’Apollito, Monitors with woofers, HORNS!?

Without having some understanding of the set-up any debugging would be like shooting rubber bands at the moon.

Cheers,
Axel

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