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[quote user="Paul S"]fiogf49gjkf0dWe do have a cable thread somewhere on this site that might be better for cable-specific posts. As far as purely electrical "issues", in the end, better sound is still the main consideration. Shielding power lines i...
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A site reader sent me email that Harry Pearson died last
night. It is sad news and my condolences to his beloved, relatives, friends and
the people who knew him personally. The internet
audio sites are full of tributes to Harry
Pearson and this ...
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Found some interesting comments on an independent web site, Twogoodears.
I'll copy it, it is from 2009 with original lines from Arthur Salvatore and a comment from Stefano Bertocello - Twogoodears owner -, we will n...
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I did one such newsletter many years ago at university; one description I recall was "have you ever - inadvertently or otherwise - tasted your own earwax? Well, embrace and amplify that thought, add tannins that could strip paint at five paces and ga...
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Sometimes we have luck when we listen to a System and we can have the illusion of - more or less - pure music realism, but the majority of Systems are sophisticated hi-fi.Not enough, the more expensive the components are, the better dressed the sales...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]David, you are thinking like a basement TT maker, which is all todays TT makers in one way or another. The reality is that no one need TTs and the makers happy to make and to sell 5 turntables a year. For sure it is expensi...
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On the face of it, the AF1 represents a "finished high-end product". Clearly, it is well thought out and presented in this way, and this closing/finishing effort was not cheap. And the reasons for this are well understood, because only in this way ca...
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Not that I want to divert my attention from my horn project, I'll admit I am curious. The horns are going to take some time, so I might be able to squeeze this in if it proves feasible.While some might scoff at such a thought, for many of us, digital...
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[quote user="anthony"]Exactly that, my sources do
not play loud enough through the Melquiades or DSET. Like your OPPO, they
only put out about 2V RMS which seems to be the modern standard and I need
more. Can you remember what input voltage ...
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[quote user="AudioArchitect"]You should find a life somewhere!You have really big issues with self image, big fragile ego, Dunning Kruger mental illness, and manybof my friends who are medical clinicians read many of your articles here, and they told...
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Thanks guys for all the suggestions.Klaus wrote :"...there are a lot of questions, but if one thinks to much, then he will end up like this lynn olson, pages and pages of endless talk and no horns..."Very true, I need to get cracking, but I'm&nb...
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Well, the DG Archiv had very few, or ever, “better moments” in term of recording quality. With Brandenburg Concertos on LP I have the same problem as you do. I have some recordings that I more or less like on LP but I never was comfortable with...
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Lots has been written already about tube replacement, but I want to mention my recent experience when replacing the 6C33C output tubes (V2). I had the previous tubes in for only about 1 year; in this case I estimate about 300 hours, althou...
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The life with FM is great – did not play record for a month or so… I was playing with some other tuners that came across Kenwood L-02T and Mono Scott 310. Both were no good.
Anyhow, the experimental Sansui was running all that time. The “tone” at HF...
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Sorry Paul but your post makes no sense.
Firstly one minute you were clearly unfamiliar with the circuit and amplifier in question, and now you are suddenly really au fait with it's sonic characteristics. Forgive me if that takes something of a qu...
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I am thinking again about “detail” in the context of this thread. The issue is which, what sort and/or how much/many detail[s] “should” we be able to hear at any given volume setting?
I have been guilty of enjoying details, etc. I knew were mo...
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Paul.you marvelously identified the characteristic Kharma Sound. However, what is very important to understand in my attitude toward Kharma that the Kharma Sound has much more “negative load” with itself then juts being a poor sound from a manufactur...
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I understand that this is just an excercise, but one thing I keep coming back to as I experiment with hi-fi is to try to minimize the number of changes I make at once so I can - hopefully - keep track of and sort out what each change brings to m...
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Generally it is very uncharacteristic subject in audio: the destiny of audio reproduction. Destiny might be only with something that has its own lifespan. Audio reproduction is in a way an imitation and therefore should hot have own destiny because i...
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I admit tat I ma kind of a freak of nature in my pursuit to the abstract absolute tone of orchestra. Attending life performances I practically never hear “tone” that satisfies me. In the Mecca of my tonal satisfaction there was 3 years ago a vi...
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Roman
I agree that from absolute point of view "yellow driver with wings" is not a great solution. But, there is many types of yellow drivers with quite different specs and a few types of "wings" also exist. I'm not going to deffend this kind of imp...
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"They were both artists thoroughly faithful to themselves. Of course, their music was beautiful beyond description. I learned many things through them. I learned so many things not only from their music, but also from their way of l...
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I did not read it, I rarely read those types of articles but what you describe is very common and very indicative for those people. They fly like butterflies from a manufacture to a manufacture, from dealer to dealer and from marketing campaign to ma...
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As I told, I’m generally not a fan of the Shostakovich’s orchestral music. There is in Shostakovich’s “large music” a constant sense of vulgarity, peasant intellectualism, humiliation and a sense of blown-up meaningless artificial musicality that ver...
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The basically the same tubes. The 6E5P has own unit pins layout with heaters connected across the tube – very moronic in my view and it does not allow twisting the AC filament wires to the very end. The 6E6P has a common pins layout that most of west...
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Romy:This is your lucky day! The owner of Silbatone Acoustics wants to invite you to Korea as his personal guest. Pick a date in March. You pay the plane ticket and he will pick up all accommodations and entertainment.You can hear the Aporia versus t...
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Enduring a quite aggressive schedule to the end of the month to finish the horns, I realize how much work is still ahead. As now both of the horns are built. They are no prepared to be painted yet and second skin is not built. This notion that ¾ laye...
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Romy wrote: "...The “competition for the best” syndrome is something that retarded reviewers brought into audio. This “frustration for the best” is the only crap they are able to sell and the only think how they meant understand audio. Unfortunately...
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Thank you all for your ideas and suggestions on RTA.Romy -- you are correct, measurements always need to be made in context of sonic experience and more importantly musical intention. For me, though, to begin the process, I need to unlearn much of wh...
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Nope, it does not miss anything. They offset the 75msec in input using the inductance of cartage’s coil (I quess they do not use MC). Below is the original thread. You need to buy a chocolate cake and to do a foot massage to your Russian mistres...
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