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Re: Got the turntable itch
True, many routes. In my case I already had the media (a few thousand LPs) so bought a Music Hall MMF-7 which I kept for many years and just built around it. I had several phono preamps in the 20 years that turntable kept turning with just a couple belt changes. A vacuum based record cleaner was one of the best purchases.
Emlyn
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Re: Schiit
I bought one of their little Mani headphone preamps to monitor livestream audio for our church. It's very good, and it was very inexpensive (on close-out).
Their frat-boy humor and snarky, self-deprecating style doesn't really work for me, and some of their products are downright silly, but they have a reputation for knowing what they're doing (ahem, with the possible exception of their turntable fiasco). Their product line seems to be drifting steadily upscale, especially in price, though.
Their customer service reputation is kind of checkered (many glowing reports, but some disastrous ones, too).
ASR, of course, is very Schiit-centric (yeah, yeah... I know... low hangin' fruit
) -- lots of chatter & lots of reviews there, too.
I am not terribly impressed with the construction of their components -- which all looks the same, irrespective of whether it's the aforementioned $100 HP amp or a multi-thousand dollar amplifier or preamp. Grit your teeth and read a few of their reviews -- more to the point, the discussion in the threads attached to the reviews.
Are you thinking about specific product categories?
I will admit... I wouldn't mind playing with one of their little tone control boxes, but even the cheap one's not quite cheap enough to buy on a whim.
PS Their products do seem to have fairly short lifecycles, and they have an almost bewildering array of individual products for what I presume is fundamentally a pretty small company.
Their frat-boy humor and snarky, self-deprecating style doesn't really work for me, and some of their products are downright silly, but they have a reputation for knowing what they're doing (ahem, with the possible exception of their turntable fiasco). Their product line seems to be drifting steadily upscale, especially in price, though.
Their customer service reputation is kind of checkered (many glowing reports, but some disastrous ones, too).
ASR, of course, is very Schiit-centric (yeah, yeah... I know... low hangin' fruit
) -- lots of chatter & lots of reviews there, too.I am not terribly impressed with the construction of their components -- which all looks the same, irrespective of whether it's the aforementioned $100 HP amp or a multi-thousand dollar amplifier or preamp. Grit your teeth and read a few of their reviews -- more to the point, the discussion in the threads attached to the reviews.
Are you thinking about specific product categories?
I will admit... I wouldn't mind playing with one of their little tone control boxes, but even the cheap one's not quite cheap enough to buy on a whim.
PS Their products do seem to have fairly short lifecycles, and they have an almost bewildering array of individual products for what I presume is fundamentally a pretty small company.
mhardy6647
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Re: Volume is everything.
Tom, it is definitely not laughable my friend.
You put a full body acoustic guitar in the hands of a capable musician trying to fill a venue with sound, I assure you A weighted peaks will hit 95db.
I listened to guitars/drums, etc etc for many, many many hours!
Snare drum peaks at 125 to 130db.
But most "passive/acoustic" instruments - woodwinds, brasswinds, acoustic guitars, drums can easily produce levels 85 to 120db unamplified.
You put a full body acoustic guitar in the hands of a capable musician trying to fill a venue with sound, I assure you A weighted peaks will hit 95db.
I listened to guitars/drums, etc etc for many, many many hours!
Snare drum peaks at 125 to 130db.
But most "passive/acoustic" instruments - woodwinds, brasswinds, acoustic guitars, drums can easily produce levels 85 to 120db unamplified.
VR3
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Re: Volume is everything.
So having worked in a music store for almost a decade, I looked up the average volume of an unamplified acoustic guitar played in a venue setting. The average peaks are upwards of 95db...
Which is also pretty loud!
https://instrumentinsight.com/how-loud-is-an-acoustic-guitar/
Which is also pretty loud!
https://instrumentinsight.com/how-loud-is-an-acoustic-guitar/
VR3
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Re: Projects: what are you all working on?
Fixed the red light of death on the bluesound node2. Just changed a couple of power supply capacitors that are known to go bad.
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