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speakerman1

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These are just my observations. 1 example. Since I went to the Goldring 2400. I can tell in a matter of a few notes that the cart isn't clean. I can play a record on one TT with pops every where. Put it on my other there isn't as many. With every step there is more of a revelation to be seen. Every time I step up the food chain of audio something else raises its ugly head. When you are just starting everything sounds pretty good to you. Then you go to a friends. You take a CD or LP, tape whatever. What do you want to do? Buy his equipment because you heard things you never had before. Let's say you change an amp. That sounds a lot better. So you start wondering HMMMMM would a new CDP sound better. So you take another step. Wow my CDs sound great. My records sound a little dull. Wonder if a new cart will sound better. Guess what ends up at your door in the near future. A new cart. That sounds better. Wonder what wires can do. Poof new cables appear. Every time you do this the noise floor becomes more relevant. With the new cart comes a pop killer in the form of a record cleaner. Next step up you start hearing little hums. Which make you go HMMM. LOL So at every step you have taken the music has gotten more profound. HMMMM Why is that? Well as the more music is coming through so are little sounds you have never heard before. It never stops. Well I hope at some point it does. Remember the friend who rode around blasting his radio so you couldn't hear the engine interference on the radio. The faster he went the higher it went. LOL AH The good ole days. LOL Do you get where I'm coming from.

It does and it doesn't have to do with money. It is Friday night and I'm not uptight. Got a joke. This black guy is driving down the road. All of a sudden a Gennie appears. He says dear sir I will grant you 3 wishes. Think very hard and long before you ask.. The black dude is sort of freakin out. He is saying wishes HMMMM wishes. About an hour later he has it. He knows what he wants. He tells the Gennie I know what I want. The Ginnie goes are you sure? Have you thought long and hard? The dude just smiles. He goes I have it. This is going to be cool. He looks at the Gennie smiling. I want to be white, uptight and out of sight. The Gennie goes your wish is my command. POOF He becomes a tampon.
 

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I find things by mistake. Leave the volume up and lean close to the speaker. You have to crank and you will hear it. LOL The Carver you have to really crank. Both on the phono side. Clean on all other things.
 

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Cranking the volume and sticking my ear close to the speaker is generally something I would try to avoid. How the system sounds from my seating position has been enough trouble unto itself lol.
 

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I didn't do it on purpose. It should be dead quiet. Just like the other components. I do not want to hear a creature stirring not even a mouse. Much less my spouse.
 

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Yeah I hate noise. Unfortunately some if my better sounding components have more low level noise then other pieces that have been quiter and don't sound as good.
 

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I'm just about to go through this pain all again. The supravox field coils at 12V on the coil are nearly 100db/1m and the amps are 2.5 watt single ended
Type 50 RCA's. Expecting some unwanted noise with this lot!!!
 

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Seems like gain stages are often the culprit. Quicksilver makes some "horn" amps that are quieter then their others, specifically for very high efficiency loudspeakers. But I don't think they have any low wattage single ended stuff. On another note, thinking about that Nikko pre Larry got from me, it was the highest gain pre that I have owned although I never measured it. If its cranked all the way, it may be noisier if the gain is so much higher. Could test a 1khz signal on multimeter/scope and look at the voltage. I bet it tests higher then other things.
 
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