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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 21, 2020 7:14:26 GMT
No.
I was just clearly showing that some Alps pots are clearly described as being conductive plastic.
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Post by user211 on Jul 21, 2020 7:59:43 GMT
Metallised. And it corrodes.
You want 100% conductive plastic.
You know when you have it you can feel it in the movement. It's a totally different knob feel LOL.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 21, 2020 8:17:04 GMT
Yes. Metallised conductive plastic - as it states in the photo.
I'll see if I can dig mine out from the 70s, and see what they *feel* like.
Not a LOL type.
More Tee-Hee
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Post by user211 on Jul 21, 2020 9:35:09 GMT
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 21, 2020 10:24:54 GMT
Commonly described as "conductive plastic". ie: plastic track - made conductive.
I imagined this was achieved with the plastic being carbon-loaded. Never thought of metal being used. Might be nichrome; haven't looked.
Never seen the description "metallised conductive plastic", until now.
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Post by user211 on Jul 21, 2020 11:24:09 GMT
The plastic polymers themselves conduct electricity. Cool, but expensive I suspect which is why P&G plastic pots cost so much. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conductive_polymerIf you can make sense of it. IMHO the Mod Squad pre sounded excellent and knowing what I know now I would never have sold it. |
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Post by puffin on Jul 22, 2020 7:20:20 GMT
It's odd how some things can be Marmite products. I find my LDR just lets the music through and is very transparent. It is like no other passive I have tried and doesn't accentuate any particular part of the frequency range.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 22, 2020 7:43:18 GMT
Aye. It's like macaroni cheese. Some people love it - I can't abide it.
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 22, 2020 11:13:19 GMT
Agreed, there's no need for macaroni cheese.
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Post by jandl100 on Jul 22, 2020 14:03:25 GMT
Mmmmm,macaroni cheese. Yum.
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Post by edward on Jul 22, 2020 15:11:48 GMT
I switch between an LDR (Coffee Stereo that Oli has heard) which represents my macaroni cheese and a full fat meaty active (Phast 6SN7 based) pre. Both of which Alan Firebottle breathed on. Both lovely - loads of detail, transparency, neutrality etc but the active pips it for me as more texture and richness.
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Post by bigman80 on Jul 22, 2020 23:11:26 GMT
It's odd how some things can be Marmite products. I find my LDR just lets the music through and is very transparent. It is like no other passive I have tried and doesn't accentuate any particular part of the frequency range. I suppose a lot of what get auditioned are largely dependent on the surrounding gear. I wouldnt say my system was as well balanced as it is now, so it could well have been something to do with that, but i'd be very confident of the findings of anything I plug in to it these days. I'm not anti LDR BTW, as I said, I am only speaking of what happened when I tried 4 separate units, in very quick succession. |
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 23, 2020 19:25:00 GMT
Any opinions on this new 1k Quad Artera pre? Includes phono stage, headphone amp and the (in)famous 'tilt' control. Supposedly engineered with transparency in mind, unlike the old gear LOL. www.quad-hifi.co.uk/artera-pre/ |
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 23, 2020 19:38:33 GMT
Not enough knobs on it, for me, Jules.
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 23, 2020 20:52:12 GMT
I must admit that whilst I only use a remote control, I do like a big rotary volume control for aesthetics ...
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Post by MartinT on Jul 23, 2020 21:33:03 GMT
I don't have one of those any more!
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 23, 2020 21:40:49 GMT
Aesthetics only, Jules?
Jules... Jules... No need to bashful. You're amongst friends, here. Unburdened yourself. Free yourself of those deep-seated dark desires. No-one's going to judge you. Well, not many.
Must admit, always been somewhat anti remote control. Just seems a tad lazy to me. I'd rather get up and interactive.
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 23, 2020 22:26:11 GMT
If I was still only playing vinyl I could live without RC no worries - problem is with Spotify the levels vary hugely so I'd be up and down more times than I might tolerate!!
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 24, 2020 8:36:42 GMT
Oh. Not being a Spotify user, didn't realize that.
I have tried it a couple of times on my mobile. But, for whatever reason, I couldn't get excited with the sound. With YouTube, the sound can be quite... well, exciting, compression and all.
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Post by MartinT on Jul 24, 2020 8:41:00 GMT
Spotify Free is very compressed. The subscription service has a much better data rate and the music sounds better.
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