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Voltage sag at the ConEd level is the-same-only-different from porta power sag. If nothing else, at some point, many of us will have a huge "oversupply" feeding the tranny that feeds the nearby drop that feeds our house. No porta unit puts out anyt...
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I don't remember and am too lazy to check the sizes of the drivers for this system, but I do "remember" this as a speaker that Wilson has never outdone since. I suppose it still comes with tech help in setting it up, which would be the ballgame for ...
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Here are some folks who think ultra-stiff cones and cutting-edge technology are the way to go: http://polymeraudio.com/about/ I did not read all their explanations. I have never heard these speakers. Perhaps they will be at this year's THE Show, at...
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Josh, I admit I pretty much ass-u-me things sound bad until proven otherwise, because that's how it's gone for the 55 years or so I've been at this. Still, these are just the sorts of speakers I'd go out of my way to hear, given 1/2 a chance. Ironi...
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[quote user="Wojtek"]people who are not exposed to a possibilities of certain (SOTA) sound reproduction level have NO IDEA what's actually achievable. [/quote]
Wojtek
I 100% believe in you but only in right speaker placemen...
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Amir, I suppose there are audio products I have not heard that do a good job, especially when we're talking about someone else's idea of a "good job". Speaking for myself, I would not be loooking for power and range from 2-way speakers, because my ex...
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Decoud, I think the "idea" they are miming is to have the controls isolated, "out of the signal path", via "relays". This is not new, of course, but it is "modern" and "high-tech", and it also creates a way for the "digital interface" (tres chic...)...
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Well, I finally got around to replacing the original motor on my old Sota Star TT, after 27 years of service. Sota is still in business, and they still service anything they ever built. Although it takes them a while to fill an order like mine, it ...
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people who are not exposed to a possibilities of certain (SOTA) sound reproduction level have NO IDEA what's actually achievable. To have a luxury of choosing five SOTA Trumpets from the masters is very nice indeed but assume that you're only able ...
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[quote user="rowuk"] Wojtek wrote:people who are not exposed to a possibilities of certain (SOTA) sound reproduction level have NO IDEA what's actually achievable. To have a luxury of choosing five SOTA Trumpets from the masters is very nice indeed...
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[quote user="Wojtek"]people who are not exposed to a possibilities of certain (SOTA) sound reproduction level have NO IDEA what's actually achievable. To have a luxury of choosing five SOTA Trumpets from the masters is very nice indeed but assume t...
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Not that I have a lot of patience for audio, but I finally ran out my allotment for the effing shielded phono cables when the clock sounded 12 before I figured out a quiet grounding scheme. On the up side, I cleaned and re-greased all the contacts f...
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Well, I finally got around to replacing the original motor on my old Sota Star TT, after 27 years of service. Sota is still in business, and they still service anything they ever built. Although it takes them a while to fill an order like mine, it ...
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The one thing I forgot for 1 minute was my TT, and I forgot to set the "transit' screws that take the weight of the platter off the (saphire) thrust bearing while moving the TT. Oops! I used the subsequent trip back to Sota to up-date the platter a...
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Something I think you guys are leaving out is power factor. This electricity stuff is not linear; voltage peaks do not necessarily track current. This is a problem with Edison supply, and perhaps a greater one with local generation. There are devices...
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It seems like most audio "auditioning" is of the hopeful sort, where we can in the best cases "hear something" that attracts us, and we can perhaps use experience to try to "intuit" whether we might be able to "extract" and use the particular compone...
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Mats, I am not so sure about where this may be headed, because the last thing I want to do is start an AA style pissing contest or suggest that any given product or design is the one to have, mainly because I just don't believe that any product ...
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[quote user="Paul S"]David, of course the item under discussion would not exist at all unless someone "saw" it before he or she built it...
Setting that aside for now, Lord knows I try to Keep It Real when sharing thoughts about hi-fi. With this go...
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Re, bearing/ground path versus platter mass: The usual option is to use somewhat less than 150 lb platter ;>), which is the compromise I opted for, for lots of swell reasons, one of which is because a lighter platter still allows f...
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Of course, at some point I "reasoned" that the laundry detergents, dish soaps, etc., contain the SOTA enzymes, surfactants, wetting agents, detergents, etc., and I've tried a number of them, including several "detergents" made for dishwashers. And th...
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Some time ago I got uptight about the idea of long TT belts, and this is because I put a strobe on one, a long time ago, after I thought I "saw" it fluttering, out of the corner of my eye. Anyway, it did flutter, and a longer one we messed with had...
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Interesting, but I have to say that does sound a bit
problematic in several ways. For one, I’m guessing you meant to say “one mm”, or
even “one quarter of an inch”, but not “one inch”. One inch is quite a soup
bowl! For another, anti-skating f...
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Do I recall that the REL had a fairly "unusual" tuning section - among its many features that were (and still are) novel for a "civilian" tuner - , and that many of those old parts were not only top, SOTA mil-spec back then but most of them were also...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Do I recall that the REL had a fairly "unusual" tuning section - among its many features that were (and still are) novel for a "civilian" tuner - , and that many of those old parts were not only top, SOTA mil-spec back then but m...
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I really don't get out much any more, just happened to run across this while looking for high-powered SETs:http://www.avguide.com/news/2008/01/23/ces-2008-dick-olsher-investigates-tube-gear-at-ces/4/Look at text down below the Classic Audio speaker p...
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Perhaps some people thought I was kidding when I suggested using a mid-fi system to audition for SOTA phono cartridges... It took me almost 10 years to find a replacement for my old Sony CD player because, despite the fact that several I heard w...
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Voltage sag at the ConEd level is the-same-only-different from porta power sag. If nothing else, at some point, many of us will have a huge "oversupply" feeding the tranny that feeds the nearby drop that feeds our house. No porta unit puts out anyt...
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but you have just +/- described an approach to cooty fighting that is already pretty popular with the tech-ies out there. This general idea is the basis for some very sophistocated attempts to quiet lines used for lab equipment, including ...
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The "reason" for the copper foil and Teflon film caps is to offer for sale the penultimate fantasy cap, with silver foil and Teflon film being the "ultimate" intellectual destination at this point and the obvious next move "up", if this copper batch ...
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Could anyone here get through the whole spiel? I found it rough going at first and then impossible once I saw the pictures of the product. The immediate sense I could not escape is that it is (at this point, anyway) more about a "total marketing pl...
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