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I tried yesterday a test sail. It is a single sail that I ran a bit ahead of listening position. The sail is polyester foamy material, hairy and light: 15 years is about 5 ounces. The effect is generally positive and expected but I have to say that...
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Romy, even though code-conscious electricians install your special ground rod for you, they will still in all likelihood want to tie the neutral wires from your dedicated 30A lines back to the ground bus in the breaker box where they get their 30A fe...
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... this last time ive been doing some "ear" experiments and trying different setups of filtering . Just a question regarding a phenomena that im having , ive tried some ups/on-line regenerators and I think they tend to "smooth" all music but they do...
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Let's see if I can magically produce a cd-dvd-preamp-remote volume conntrol-equalizer-wifi-d/a-save stations-and cost under $1000. And it will even tune in TV stations, record them, FM and internet files and even do a/d encoding up to 24/192. Can't b...
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I had PS300 and founded only 1 place it did the job - for my then Valhalled Linn LP12. At all other places it worsened sound. Eventually after 4 years it went south.I tried no-label balanced isolated trans-didn't work for me but of course it doesn't ...
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I took receipt of my new Anima speakers yesterday.Aesthetically, they match my listening room very well. Early days, but sonically, driven by my 211 mono amps with Elrog output tubes, they easily better any other speaker I've had in this room. It's f...
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I would say that Las Cases is a closer knit, more "balanced", typically lighter wine, and Barton is more "au sauvage", often quite rough when young. And I would say the same of THE DRC (regarding knit and balance, in any case) vs La Tasche, which I ...
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Ok, I have not fully seen the temporal context, it was 1993!! Chapeau!I did read about the algorithm, I just reacted to the claimes about the balanced DAC being "also unique",which I quoted in the first line.Now I understand, it was in its time. Diya...
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Amir, the RCA vs. balanced can be a huge difference, depending on the application, and the longer the runs, the greater the difference. But I was talking about the materials and construction of available connectors, which are primarily made the way t...
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Romy, On a past thread you adviced the following regarding the connection of the PM2:"You will not have problems to drive with balanced Pacific your
single-ended amp. Juts buy a good quality XLR to RCA adapter or order
XLR to RCA cable and you wi...
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Many people know that I run a side business doing wedding photography. During the 24 years that I have been doing the wedding gigs, and after over 950 jobs that I went through I kind of have seen all imaginable wedding bands. Certainly the “events mu...
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Regarding L1 and L2 outputs and bi-amping:
Romy wrote:"...The unfortunate part is that if you still intend to run a dedicated cable to your let say LF section and if you use Lamm preamp then you can’t... his preamps (L1 and L2, I do not know h...
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I have to admit that I personally care less about powerful full-range SET amplifiers. I do not take their sound seriously, in fact I do not believe they are cable to do “right full-range sound” and what I see then I always imagine them with huge, bar...
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A site reader sent me last nigh a link to a Yahoo newsgroup where a guy posted at feedback about Accuphase T-1100
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/FMtuners/message/66682
Here is the content of the newsgroup post:
David...
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The really serious piano players I know either ignore it or buy a different piano. I have NEVER worked with a pianist that tried to make a piano something it currently wasn't. I think that when you are obcessed with your playing there are no syna...
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Simply put, this concept has more to do with tangible results than most other things we talk about. At least, potentially. In the same way that a person might go to the ophthalmologist and get a pair of prescription eyeglasses to see clea...
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I have heard several Tannoy speakers in the past, but have never heard the quality of sound Romy has obtained with his brain child. I don't know whether it is the speakers alone or his setup which has allowed his system to enthrall so much more than ...
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My playback is specifically for ME. I am not so much interested in hearing if the trumpet player farts, but am very interested in the orchestral fabric and how players move their instruments in and out of that. Row 15, refers to my favorite row at th...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]… I do not fully understand the relationship between output impedance and diaphragm control; also I don't know what you mean by "negative impedance". Your mid-bass drivers have 15 Ohm coils; from what you write, I assume y...
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I meant to mention it before but forgot and was reminded today by some events. The Hi-Fi companies use doe fine customer service but to a sensible point. The points of sensibility wariest upon many factors but generally hi-end folks are well take ca...
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[quote user="AlexBerger"]I think I should to give some break-in time to Sylvania 0a2.50 hours is enough? Previously I used in my EAR the next set of tubes ECC83: 1-Amperex (red print), 2-Amperex (red print), 3-Sylvania 7025 (yellow print).When I ...
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i am using the digital output on the 828 Mk3 so can't comment on the sound except that i have no issues with it.
the card has one coax and two optical digital outputs and a whole bunch of analog balanced ones which i don't use.
i am using the c...
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I got the new BSO 88/24 files them briefly listened a few fragments. Generally I do like them and they are nothing like the 320kbps multi-channel WMA that BSO marketed before. My fear that the files might have issues with tone turned out to be not ne...
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I touched on local electricity problems in a recent electricity post. Briefly, the local nuclear plant has been shut down by concerned politicians after "leaks" were detected. Setting aside mutated flora and fauna, sound has been worse more of the ...
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Nerds may care to look at Lampizator's study of the TDA1549T chipset in use for hi-fi. The iDAT 44+ uses 4 of these chips, 2/channel, driven Class A, in balanced mode. I have mentioned the use of this chipset before, but in another thread, also Mus...
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I was wondering how the record heat would affect your progress. Lucky you.Interesting observations about the air cap. Of course I am curious whether the added clarity additionally rewards/punishes +/- precision with VTA/SRA?I have zero ex...
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Points about the self-sound of the PH-77 are well taken, not that I'll be spending 8K on anything any time soon, regardless of its "value".My own K&K phono stage is totally Spartan, just to avoid all the circuitry that typically facilitates the s...
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I have a mystery – my Second stereo arm stopped to sound right. My Second stereo arm is Micro MAX 282. I have been using it for years and I know it very well. It is not the “phenomenal arm”, it loose to my best arm and I know how, but it is an OK arm...
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Paul,My current active crossover is a DSP unit which likely has low enough input impedance and single ended inputs. I added BAL inputs by using input transformers. By no means do I want to use this combination as a representation of my crossover! I i...
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[quote user="zako"]A stromberg Carlson 1936 unit with a LABRITH horn design,,,Its a full rich sounding radio and a well balanced sound.. No you cant have it,,Go find your own,,,[/quote]Thanks, zako. I would like to have a radio that do FM. In 1936 ...
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