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This weekend a local audio guy came to my palace and was bitching about his bass. I have small 1 cub feet pair sealed foxes with 8” version of my 25W drivers, I think they are 21W. I used them on the side of my bed to allow my old Koshka to climb in ...
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That Italian set was notable too for having been pressed with vacuum-tube technology, nor did it exhibit the usual DGG over-miking and mixing. In short, the good sound reinforced the good performances.
Any comments on the earlier mono Mravinsky set?...
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This is kind if totally separate subject: the every single sonata by the "adequate" player. Sometimes I feel in the same way and sometimes, in fact most of the time, I feel that when you get a large collection of those sonatas by a single pian...
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Well, Romy, "the industry" never really settled on anything for any reason, so many versions of pretty much everything out there, although the convolution sound processing, very generally speaking, is the pro darling these days, especially in terms o...
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London LL-1106; mono LP; 1954I feel so expansive listening to this, and I think a lot of it is because Fournier's playing is so perfect, in a very "modern", 20th century way. He does not put finger or bow awry, and the double-string work has to be h...
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I was gifted a mono LP version of this performance, which I have listened to closely but once, with fair electricity. This time I was more impressed with the orchestra/orchestration than the piano playing, which I found to be a bit much, overall, an...
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I think I have 3 versions of Bruckner 8, 2 performances on CD. 1 CD is Carl Schuricht/Stuttgart, 1954, and the other is Herbert von Karajan/Vienna, 1988. The Karajan CD sounds better through my system, and I also prefer it in terms of the performance...
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What I have is a subwoofer made by ACI; no information on the amplifier used other than it uses a two prong power cord, no ground. When I hooked it up to the APS 2000 I got a very loud pitched hum. Taking if off the 2000 and plugging it into a...
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Hi, WojtekI get lots of PM from readers of this site; it should work. Try again, and be careful with the spelling, etc. Though I can easily upload pictures to GSC Image Gallery, I can't seem to get them from the Gallery to the Board. Perhaps they ...
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It was juts recently uploaded:
It you do not care to read my bitching then watch this Sakuma clip. It shows off very nice the Sakuma’s “deliberate mono” solutions. Be advised that they use very wide angle optics…. The caT...
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Yep, you re right, the Yamamoto A-06S is SET, I did not read it carefully and I was under presumption that A-06S is PP monoblock. Good for Yamamoto! The only amps I heard with AD1 were PP. Somewhere in the very end 90s I shortly was exposed to i...
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The ECL82 = 6BM8 was used a lot in low-end amps, both push-pull and single-ended. Actually, according to your radio's schematic to which you posted a link, they are not being used "one per channel," rather it is a mono radio (nothing wrong with that...
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doug s. wrote: i have never heard the rel. but, if you want to hear a tubed tuna at its best, pick up a sherwood s3000ll or later, get it serviced, and run it thru one of your mpx decoders. or get one w/a built-in sh...
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I juts got home, put a record to play and suddenly discovered that my SPU has it’s cantilever bent 90 degree and then even twisted vertically. It was perfectly fine last night!!! I have no idea what kind forced what appl...
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Jim, I do not know what to say: I never experienced any nose problem with it. A few years ago I built 2 mono phonocorrectors with 7788 at input as a pentode both of them were just nice and quiet and did not give me any problems in noise department. T...
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It appears that in most cases like the DaVinci, the gigantic platter is used only as rotational mass. And in most other cases where the manufacturer does speak of the platter as an impedance sink, either the platter material seems ill...
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I'm not sure why my DAC cut out, other than it's a short. Meanwhile, I am listening exclusively to vinyl, as opposed to mostly vinyl. I sure wish I had FM, but no sense worrying about that in these parts, not to mention all the records I'...
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The 834P was a revelation for me, being a circuit that I would have dismissed as "old hat" (Feedback? 12AX7 cathode follower? Do me a favour!). I like it so much that I intend to build an "enhanced" copy a la Thorsten/Carsten for reference (and enjoy...
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i agree that there are more audiophile cartridges around than the dl103. but except maybe for the ortofon classic, they all have non-spherical stylii. i am sure that a lot of the "air", "space", "bloom" etc. of today's cartridges is actually distorti...
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Hm, I took the anti-RIAA signal converted and run CD player into the phonostage. The RIAA curve was fine and the effect of the HF volume and frequency-depended quantization did not expose itself. So, it looks like the phonostage is not a problem afte...
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Hi Romy,Well maybe it is that the answer. My mono is pierre clement eb 25 broadcast cartridge, the original not the contemporary remake. The output is extremely high, almost overwhelming my phono amp I have the impression. Also, it tracks very heavy...
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[quote user="N-set"]Has anybody tried this:http://www.analog-collector.com/bonus/cellules/default.htmVery costly and a copy but..maybe...?[/quote]I never heard it or about it and it might be interesting. Well, as interesting as any other basement-bui...
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Hi Roman... you know "... but Twogoodears normally prefer a do not go to depth..." it's not an hide & seek kind-of-thing, but a necessity;-), as I'm not technical inclined or taught enough to discuss in depth of circuits designing... I'm only a u...
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Totally disappointed today, while I was listening to music, the left channel make a small pop and quit. The bias meter showed about 25ma bias instead of 200ma. Test the tube on bench showed that the tube current stay about 25-50ma max. This tube is g...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Romy, I have for some time called this phenomenon the "necessary roughness", and one of the things I liked (loved, actually) about Cogent's main field coil was that it did this very well indeed over about 2 octaves; in fact, it w...
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Hi Paul,The Cogent diaphragm I have seen pictures of was woven carbon fiber with a leather outer surround. I have never listened to a Cogent 1428 but they must sound very good, at least Bill Woods and Bruce Edgar say so.Besides their overall ultra cl...
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Hello,I just logged myself in so first of all: Hi Everybody ;)Few days ago I aquired a pair of very interesting 3way horn speakers which seem, as I imagine, to ba an ambitious DIY project from the past. These are basically the Altec Vott A7 replicas ...
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NEW! CD-1180(4) Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Evelyne Crochet, pianoCD 1 : Book 1 - Preludes and Fugues I to XV (Total time: 65:45) CD 2: Book 1 - Preludes and Fugues XVI to XXIV Book 2 - Preludes and Fugues...
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+++ Going back in time to your Super Macondo with the midbass horn, I'm wondering how did the big horn influence your perception of Macondo sound if you remember?
Yes, it is very very good question and essentially the question which r...
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“Evgeny Onegin” is kind of idiosyncratically-charismatic Russian opera. As beautiful it is the “Onegin” has no typical thrill that the ordinary opera lovers accustomed to get rush upon. It has nether gipsy colors on the stage, nor masquerade grand da...
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