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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: High-end audio: Absolute Sound vs Naturality vs Expressivity
Post Subject: It was VERY funny event... two month later....Posted by Romy the Cat on: 12/23/2024
 PeterA wrote:
Hello Romy,
Great video and I appreciate the description and discussion of the three approaches.  Your 3rd way is one that seems more active.  One where you can shape/tailor your listening experience for maximizing emotion, and if I understand you, this is based on recording, the music, and your mood.  I respect that.
I actually met you once about three years ago when I drove David Karmeli to you.  You made us lunch and then played Bruckner symphonies on your system in the back room.  This was your old house in Massachusetts.  David was visiting me to fine tune the new system I bought from him.  His family was staying with you also.  Anyway, I invite you to visit any time if you want to hear the system for your self in person.  Bring your records.

Yes, the third way is always something that fascinates me. I always was hooked on recognizing how personal objectives in listening could be converted into practice. It is not as straightforward and where high-end is starting for me.
 
Yes, I remember your visit. The most memorable thing about that visit was that despite my super confidence that my analog playback should be fine it sounded like shit. My digital was good if the signal came from TT and phono stage it was monumentally wrong. I know my system intimately and I was confident that nothing should be wrong. Even though I did not listen to my analog for a few months there should be nothing wrong there and I am quite good at finding bugs. After David left, I spent some time checking everything, which was perfect. Exactly like it was 20 years ago. I surmised that my cartridge instantly died, even though I never heard about a data set like this. I pretty much trashed my cartridge and gave it to a friend of mine to play with and my friend brought it back and said that it sounds spectacular. I'll put the cartridge back and I was literally for a few weeks doing circles in my listening room trying to guess what else might be. I have discovered the answer in a month or so. I was trying to change some kind of cable behind my equipment rock, and I suddenly saw that the end of my 3012 tonearms had a few lines of spader net to my phono cables. The phone cables were vintage Dominos, huge like hell, and the back of the arm was not truly visible, I was laughing like crazy. As I cleaned the spider net I got my LP sound back. A truly remarkable story that just reinforces why I do not like LPs
 
I am interested to hear about your installation, you are somewhere in NE, right? You might be interested in listening to my Rebel ++. They are not very different from your Vitavox CN-191. Well, they are different, but they share the same problems (in my view) that CN-191s have and you might find it useful to see/experience how I deal with the problems.

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