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The main dangers I see are are:1. AC line voltage2. Tube plate voltages3. Falling from a high place4. Heavy objects falling on BabyI do not think there is a serious burn hazard with operating tubes. They are not hot enough to cause clinical burn...
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I agree with Brian: the anti skating mechanism on my Grace 707 also works to rotate the arm outward, towards the edge of the record. So the skating force (actually torque) it is fighting must be the other way. It can be explained this way: the fric...
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It looked like they had "only" about 300-350 people on stage in Tanglewood. I think the original score called for about 750, at least that is how many Jascha Horenstein had on stage in the Royal Albert Hall in 1959. He also had about 6000 people in...
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Tonight, after playing some files from my laptop and USB DAC into my main system, I decided to browse the BSO site for some possible new downloads. While I was there, I saw a button to listen to a webcast of Tanglewood's Aug. 8 performance of M8, so...
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I'm not sure if the Salamander-style rack (wooden shelves supported by nuts and washers on threaded rods) will support 800 pounds, but if you put heavier items near the bottom then a wide heavy-duty version might be fine. Besides Salamander, some ot...
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Probably from around 1888. Google shows a very similar portrait by an artist named Ferry Beraton painted in that year....
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Romy,It is a really beautiful picture, thanks for posting it. Very appropriate for the New Year.Best to all,JJ...
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Seriously, those rear firing woofers (with bass reflex, driven by SET and only internal passive speaker covers) could be one point worth ridicule. The length of the cables, and size and probable acoustic deadness of the room, might be others. There...
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Novygera:If you have a transformer where the impedance primary-to-secondary is 5K:8, it means the turns ratio is (5000/8)½ = 625½ = 25. This is the ratio by which the voltage is stepped down and the current stepped up in going from the tube to the s...
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Seriously, I hope Mom and Baby will be home for the holidays and we will see a Picture posted. Of course the two present (actual) Cats need to be in the Exhibition as well.JJ...
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All joy to you and Amy!As to whether your son will develop an interest in Macondo and all the rest of your audio, I can offer only one data point, as to how my own son has reacted to all my (much more modest) audio adventures. In short, he takes ver...
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Joe used to post quite frequently on the AA Sewers until about, I think, 10 years ago when he mostly stopped. Well, recently there was a thread about Harry Pearson on the Critics Sewer and Joe had a few things to say:http://www.audioasylum.com/forum...
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Steverino, don't forget that Romy's Placette line stage has VERY low output impedance. It might be able to handle even the shunt capacitance of 75 feet of cable with minimal HF losses. If the cable is 100 pF/foot then its reactive impedance is abou...
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Bertie,If you are going to read this site then you should familiarize yourself with Romy's how-to athttp://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3823For your information "juts a sum down" means "just a thumbs-down."I find the linguistic m...
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Hi Romy,I kind of suspected that Koshka's time might be running out. As someone who has also mourned a cat or two, I'm glad you do not have to grieve alone. It is certainly a bittersweet coincidence that she departed on Christmas Eve; it makes me t...
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Romy:I would suggest not to store tubes under the bench in an actively used sauna. While the temperature alone will not affect them, the combination of heat and saturated humidity may lead to corrosion of the pins. Also many bottles are held to bas...
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Guy,Many thanks, you fixed whatever was wrong. I still don't know why I lost half of the 3rd movement part 1, but it is all there now. Part 2 is also complete to the last note, along with a considerable interlude of coughing and fidgeting before th...
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I want to thank Romy for recommending this performance and Guy for his fine FM-to-CD recording and upload. I have to say, though, that I encountered some problems when I downloaded the 3rd movement files. In part 1 of the 3rd movement, all sound cu...
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Romy, the world is kilt. Not skirt. Kilt. The Scots will turn YOU into a haggis if they catch you mixing that up.Seriously, It's nice you posted a picture with Amy. Now when you mention her we'll have an image to go with the name.You mentioned bag...
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Romy:If you can make the preferred chair and the couch easy to move, then you can quickly reconfigure the room for solo or dual use. Maybe put them on wheels?When you wrote "My listening hobbits become very shallow..." I could not help thinking the ...
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De Charlus,Since you presently reside in North America, I really recommend you go to visit Romy and hear his installation. The cost of the trip to Boston will be approx. 1% of your eventual total investment in this project, and what you learn there ...
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I listened to some of the samples of "Bach Reflections," their only (somewhat) classical album, on my computer. My reaction is that, arrangement- and performance-wise, it would make excellent elevator music in something like a Marriott Hotel.I canno...
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I would side with zz: make no systematic efforts to educate Amy about the audio aspects of listening. Later, when (for example) hearing a particularly fine recording, she might become interested in what is different or why it is different from a "v...
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The old Dynaquad system involved using the L-R difference signal, but produced at speaker level across a pair of rear speakers (L-R in one and R-L in the other.)Decware has one amp (the "Taboo") that can be operated in what they call "lucid mode" whe...
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Romy:I hope you and Amy are snug amid the storm and have good electricity (well, any electricity in a big blizzard is good electricity, I guess.) What music do you find appropriate to the weather this weekend? There should be something suitable in ...
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I'm sorry to say it, but I think Amy's large rug is too large. A smaller one, or better yet, two much smaller ones with some bare floor in between, is what I would play with.I also think you should recalibrate the channel levels and time-align them ...
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Putting the Pure Power in the basement might be fine, but I don't think you need to banish the Melqs down there, at least not yet.You don't know yet if there will be kids, and if so it will still be a couple years before one arrives and becomes mobil...
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Romy, you might be able to support some part of your installation on these:http://herbiesaudiolab.net/spkrfeet.htm#bfgliderThey DO affect sound but in my experience, in positive ways. I recall you got no benefit from this company's tube dampers or f...
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I predict in the long run you will have better Sound with a hardwood floor. Of course it will require some adjustments but that was my experience when I made this change years ago. Much easier for cleaning etc. too. Rather than say any more in de...
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Paul, you wrote:the best bass I have heard came from triode PP ampsWhich PP triode amps, using which output tubes?the little 2A3s have wonderful bass (as far as it goes...)Which 2A3s? The Wright 3.5s, other single-ended, or PP?I am mostly using PP a...
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