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For those too impatient or too poor to wait for a bespoke Schroeder arm there is now a +/- ready-made "Schroeder" arm available:http://dagogo.com/artemis-labs-ta-1-tonearm-review Art Dudley also just reviewed a "regular" one for Stereophile (qv)......
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[quote user="oxric"]If someone wants to discuss the hype that accompanies some products and the point where it ceases to be legitimate marketing practice and becomes a purposeful and reprehensible attempt at misrepresenting one's products and dec...
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Stitch,
You outlined very nicely the pattern that exists with quite many products in audio, I call it Whorish Fear Marketing I can’t say that the same happens with Schroeder arms. I just do not know as I never paid any attention to those arms...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
I think it is wider then just Schroeder arms. Did you see ANY discussions about the Sonic Quality of hyped products? [/quote]No. the typical audiophile has the following tatoo onto his forehead "I-buy-I-Am"[quote user="R...
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[quote user="Stitch"]All those "discussions" about the Sonic Quality from Schroeder Arms are similar to ask a Blind for the direction.(or to ask for a lab report from the latest hyped DIY unit)[/quote]
I think it is wider then just Schroeder a...
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[quote user="bernie_f"] The fundamental "problem" of this arm is, that changing one of the three main parameters (VTA, VTF, damping) changes the two others in small increments too. Can make you crazy if you are a "tweaker" not a "listener" [/quote] B...
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For those too impatient or too poor to wait for a bespoke Schroeder arm there is now a +/- ready-made "Schroeder" arm available:http://dagogo.com/artemis-labs-ta-1-tonearm-review Art Dudley also just reviewed a "regular" one for Stereophile (qv)......
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[quote user="oxric"]If someone wants to discuss the hype that accompanies some products and the point where it ceases to be legitimate marketing practice and becomes a purposeful and reprehensible attempt at misrepresenting one's products and dec...
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Hi everyone,
As I said, I never intended to be the advocate of the devil. Now that this thread seemed to have resolved that the Shroder tonearm is either over-hyped, or at any rate that its manufacturer is beneath contempt because of his asso...
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Romy, yes it is an interesting subject and one that I have thought quite a bit about although not directly from the angle from which you are approaching it.One of Macondos great strengths is narrow directivity from high frequencies all the way down t...
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Well it is getting interesting. I am getting the grip. I might as well read all the previous 11 pages to understand why the horns are on the backwall though...So what we have there on the backwall is big patches of 'air' which sort of suck HF inside ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
The only valuable foe myself history lesson I took after Jonathan Weiss visit was Jonathan’s quote. It was where we were sitting in his listening rooms and I was making one of few very fruitless attempts to explain to h...
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A guy enters highway upstream and listening to a traffic radio warning that one car is going upstream yells angrily ..."one ??? you fuc..ng morons ?? .. there are hundreds !!". Over the years I was not able to dig up a single bad review of a Schroed...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
.... to feed the interests of marketing whores of Joe Roberts types.....The Cat[/quote]... all that is based on High end Show Germany, Munich with the Silbatone demos (Joe Roberts, WE Horns...) there you can find all th...
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Hi Romy.I completely agree with you regarding the VTA <-> VTF relation on every arm out there (the lever rule also seems to work with tonearms ;-)). Also i agree that if you want the correct absolute measurement of VTF you have to do it on the ...
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Luv' it.************************01-07-13: JweissDon't know who Jeremy is, but it's pretty obvious he is shilling for Artisan.I often get emails when Artisan releases a new "product" to the effect that- "do you know this guy is ripping off your design...
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All those "discussions" about the Sonic Quality from Schroeder Arms are similar to ask a Blind for the direction.(or to ask for a lab report from the latest hyped DIY unit)...
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Unfortunately I cannot reply to your question, Roman, as I purchased from herr Von Langa a N.O.S. pair of Altec 416-8B 15" woofers.BTW: while in Berlin, last May, Frank Schroeder performed an interesting, provoking "blind-test" using '50s and '60 Tel...
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[quote user="Wojtek"] Stich , your own complains about aforementioned arms (Schroeder mostly) was "no highs , no lows " . Pretty primitive way to judge a productfrom a sophisticated listener like yourself. Since you seem to have unlimited budget , ...
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Just a few lines to the "Performance" of this piece of wood on strings for 7k $I listened to the Schroeder Reference + SQ and some custom made ones which were normally not available (Schroeder model blahblah with Valhalla cable etc.)(of course you ca...
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The idea of high quality delay makes me wonder if the delay effectively increases the virtual length of the room - allowing longer wavelengths before the room Schroeder frequency is reached. This would be a "softer" bass without the room compression....
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[quote user="bernie_f"]Hi Romy.I completely agree with you regarding the VTA <-> VTF relation on every arm out there (the lever rule also seems to work with tonearms ;-)). Also i agree that if you want the correct absolute measurement of VT...
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Hello Romy,I should have made myself more clear about the paragraph you quoted. Typical situations:a. The arm is installed on a deck that accomodates more than one arm. The listener, if lucky, has two(for all intents and purposes) identical cartridge...
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other "super arms" (in terms of price ) do have some , "stand by itself" inherent intellectual value which Schroeder totally lacks. And also personal prejudice seems to blind his objective judgement. Apart from that the question remains if the ar...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]So, my question to you guys: what techniques you use to filter out just wana-to-sound-intelligent audio people what you are engage in random let say phone conversation? Did you develop any practice to recognize that the per...
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VTF on all the Schroeders is adjusted by moving the counterweight behind the "bearing" back or forwards. This counterweight is fixed on the armtube by a screw. On the greater Schroeder arms there is also tiny screw on the backend of the armtube to do...
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Hi Romy,The thing is.. Mr Schroeder is making a living and as such (being someone who needs to make a living in order to pay for stuff), he may from time to time have to associate himself with people that will facilitate this ability to help him pay ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
When people visit me I ritually ask them to offer critiques to Sound they hear in my room...[/quote]What do you expect? Most audiophiles have absolutely no idea from reproduction of the real thing. More or less they bl...
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CES 2013: Yes, there it is. THE Arm.The Manufacturer says (Roksan): Sorry guys, it can't be made cheaper, $35.000,-- is the price we need for that sonic revolutionHis Dealer said: Guys, when the Sound of a Graham Arm is worth $6000,-- then the sound ...
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the cynical whores whom don't believe in what they doing from the ones which do. Joe Roberts happens to always have expressed his W.E love and bias ever since the dawn of "Sound Practices" so I don't see his involvement in Silbatone as a "whorish sel...
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