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    Silver cable break in

    I'm vindicated because the truth made you angry.
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    Silver cable break in

    Nope, your ears are simply getting used to it, plain and simple
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    Silver cable break in

    The breaking in of audio cables, regardless of what they are made of, is a myth. Audio Cable "Break In" Science or Psychological? | Audioholics
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    Rotel RP-1000 what to do question.

    No, what I meant was all that stuff that happened occurred like a chain collision accident, one thing happened, then another then another, all of which happened within about 4 days of each other. The humming could be a capacitor gone bad which might be why it suddenly happened? Then a couple...
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    Rotel RP-1000 what to do question.

    I have a Rotel RP-1000 that fell apart rather rapidly couple of weeks ago. It has a power hum, the tone arm stopped returning automatically at the end of a record, and because it didn't return it ruined the stylus on an Empire TC400, and then the belt either came off or broke. The estimated...
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    Furutech project V1

    LMAO!!!
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    Silver cable break in

    Does speaker wire affect sound quality? No Myths, Just Facts (soundcertified.com) 5 Myths About Speaker Wire | Machine Design Best audiophile cables: Fact and fiction explained - SoundGuys Debunking myths about audio cables - SoundGuys Wire does not require any break-in regardless of what...
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    Vinyl records outsell CDs for first time in decades

    Some musicians are recording their masters in BOTH, digital and analog at the same time, so it's not a dream. And some are now even skipping recording their masters onto digital and doing only analog, these bands that are doing strictly analog say it's because it makes their music honest, with...
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    Turntable Recommendation ~ $10K

    For those that didn't agree with me, that's fine, but you're also the type who probably subscribes to $2,000 a foot speaker cable when it has been proven that a person with educated ears could not tell the difference when a $1 a foot oxygen free copper cable was used. It's psychobabble. But I...
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    Turntable Recommendation ~ $10K

    None, the only difference you will hear is from the carts you use, and you already have good one, but different carts do sound better depending on the type of music you're playing, a lot of people have 5 or more carts because what cart will sound great with classical won't sound good with...
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    Turntable Recommendation ~ $10K

    You can spend that money if you want, it's your money, but you won't hear a difference from your old one.
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    If tape is so good why does it record so poorly?

    I was going to buy a used Akai reel-to-reel for $199 supposedly restored after a friend of mine couldn't find his old machine he was going to give it to me because he hasn't used it in 40 years, but after looking into it a lot I decided against it. First off, the parts for reel-to-reel machines...
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    Furutech project V1

    Those, or any other power cables similar, are a huge ripoff! Electricity is electricity, you cannot alter the sound with a power cord unless that power cord is a very small gauge and it cannot handle a high current amp, which in that case the reason the sound will start to go bad will be due...
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    Do you use cables to 'tune' the sonics of your system?

    "old" guy in my text meant when the hearing starts to degrade significantly enough where sensitivity of being able to hear subtle differences in sound begins, in my text that was meant to be around 45 to 50. (I'm 66 years old, so I'm in this class of "old" guy). When I said rich old guys...
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    Do you use cables to 'tune' the sonics of your system?

    No, that puts speaker cables into the realm of psychosomatic problems. People can only perceive in their imagination that a $1.45 a foot speaker cables is inferior to $1,200 a foot speaker cables because after all, they spent a lot of money thus it works...no it doesn't, it only effects sound...
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    Done with digital

    The sad thing about digital is that they have the capability to reproduce sound very similar to analog, it was called DVD, and then later BluRay; but DVD alone would have done a great job, and initially when DVD came out they were going to replace the CD format and put music on DVD because the...
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    If tape is so good why does it record so poorly?

    You cannot take a CD, record it onto any type of other media, and make it better than the original source, so the owner of the store did some BS crap to sell the tape deck. The best thing that would happen is that the tape would sound identical to the CD if everything else was equal. You...
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    What turntables do you use? Pictures would be nice as well :-)

    I thought I would post my just so this site would have some trailer trash components instead of all of those $10,000 plus turntables, my Rotel RP1000 cost $20 then later added a $75 Empire 400tc cart that an old stereo store had a NOS collecting dust so he gave me a deal, that really improved...
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    The Ortofon Verismo Has Arrived!!!

    A steal? you consider $7,100 for a cartridge a steal? I consider it a rip off! The stereo separation is only 25 db, and the frequency response is only 20 to 20. When Empire was around, they made a cart called the EDR9, this thing had a stereo separation of 31 db, and a frequency response of...
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    Do you use cables to 'tune' the sonics of your system?

    Sorry but that's not true. There has been blind test done to find out if people could hear the difference between very high-end cables vs mid-level cables, and they've done this with speaker cables and interconnects, and no one has ever been able to isolate the high-end cables from the other...
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    ampex 2000

    thanks for the info, I appreciate it.
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    ampex 2000

    being new to the reel to reel stuff, I'm not sure what tape format. I do know that the wider the tape the better the sound, but what I don't know is how wide does prerecorded tape come? I'm more into the rock and smooth jazz side of the spectrum, not too much into classical which I read that...
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    ampex 2000

    No, I don't have any tapes, I was going to slowly buy tapes when I found a machine. Interesting info about the tape and how the channels are recorded, I never knew that, so why is it that prerecorded cassettes never seemed to have that much stereo separation vs disk or vinyl, well even digital...
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    ampex 2000

    Thanks, I was thinking the same thing about that Ampex, but wanted to make sure. But I ran into another situation in regards to these reel to reels, another person I was talking to say's that the tape heads wear out and they're not available anymore to replace, neither are the capstan wheels...
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    ampex 2000

    I contacted the guy, it's a Ampex 2013 model, any thoughts on this? So, the internet says that the 2013 is the speakers it came with, and the recorder is a 2060, with 2001 mics. It's nearly the same as the 2070 minus the speakers. So I guess this thing is portable, but it does have line outs.
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    ampex 2000

    I haven't heard it, it's for sale on Craigslist, so that's why I'm trying to find out if it's worth $100 and would it provide very high quality (stereo) sound before I spend money. I don't mind spending a little money to have it checked out and any repairs if needed if the machine is worth it...
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    ampex 2000

    Do those specs look good to you guys, or are they a bit underwhelming to you compared to other decks? Like I said, I won't be recording with it, I will only be playing prerecorded tapes, but I want it to sound really good in the playback section, and I thought 7 1/2 speed was inferior to 15...
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    ampex 2000

    I did read that, but it says nothing in particular about the 2000, no specs, not much information other than an advertising page. What I want to know is how good is the machine for high quality sound playback, and was it a good machine. In other words, what is anybody's thoughts on this...
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    ampex 2000

    I cannot find any information about Ampex 2000 reel to reel machines. The Ampex doesn't have recording meters which isn't a big deal since I'm not going to be recording, so my question is how is this machine for playing back pre-recorded tapes? does it have a large frequency response? how is the...

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