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One of the first audio miracles that I remember was when I
was I think 10 or 11. I had a reel-to-reel machine from 60s, it was running tube
amplification around Russian tube 6N14P and I powered from this tape machine external
speakers that I build...
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This is funny. I closed my house on March 16 and today is March first. It is lost a year passed and only now I begin to feel that my playback is back. The status “back” it means that al major problems are filtered out and I just turn playback on and ...
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Thank you for the kind intro to your technician.
Yes, replacing the TL-0 will probably be a heartbreaking exercise. Just like there are people who own a few vintage Jaguars to cannibalize parts from one to the other, it is crazy...
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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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Rowuk got me re-thinking about how I arrived at the sound I
now get from my system. The short answer (shorter than the Long Answer…) is
that I started out trying to stay close to the sound of master tape from a nice
reel-to-reel machine. Right...
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Chaslieb, you generally is not wrong BUT all of those very rational
theories have in my view any practical meaning only in context of TTs with conventional
platters, means the platters of sane mass. As soon we enter of domain the platters
let say ...
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I do suggest to re-read my post above where I stated that Pacific has remarkably similar sound to Bidat. In Bidat there is one quality that sets it apart from any other converters out there – the Bidat’s dynamic bursts are orders of magnitude less an...
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[quote user="N-set"] There is a certain analogy between THD number and Wow&Flutter number: bare THD tells you very little, if anything at all, about the amp, one has to dig into that number deeper and see a detailed spectrum behind it. [/quote]Ac...
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In order to increase the rotating mass the platters have to be couple much harder then my lightly-applied reel-to-real tape. When you stress platters horizontally harder it creates own problems that do have sonic outcomes. In addition, the only way t...
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[quote user="Paul S"] I wonder how many cities have good FM programming and broadcasting? Los Angeles was great, back when I lived in Venice, with interesting stuff going on around the clock. San Diego is quite limited, and I get Bupkis f...
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We have tested live recordings against live sound, a recording of a jazz singer was done on Reel tape on an Ampex ATR modded machine with Fluxmagnetics heads etc. The microphone used was the legendary Telefunken stereo tube mic. no post producti...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
How difficult is it to find 437As good enough for a phonostage? For commercial applications is it a dead tube. WE might produce it again when they stated to redo the tubes but the existence of the Russian 6C45P pretty mu...
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[quote user="jtavan"]This might be an overly-obvious suggestion, but have you checked (with an audio editor program) that you're using most of the available recording range? That is, are peaks on the signal up near the maximum level possible given yo...
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Anthony, I visited you thread and glance the progress you
are going with Milq DSET. I do not exactly how you feel, I went over it myself.
Let me to tell you how I dealt with what your experience. I am not sure that my
dealing with the problem is a...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] N-set wrote: There is a certain analogy between THD number and Wow&Flutter number: bare THD tells you very little, if anything at all, about the amp, one has to dig into that number deeper and see a detailed spectrum b...
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[quote user="Amir"]I listened one time (just one time) to master tape (revox reel).micro harmonic was so better than dCS Elgar (digital source) and it was better in micro dynamic. i did not tested good DSD in a good DAC vs good analog but in micro li...
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[quote user="op.9"] Amir wrote:I listened one time (just one time) to master tape (revox reel).micro harmonic was so better than dCS Elgar (digital source) and it was better in micro dynamic. i did not tested good DSD in a good DAC vs good analog but...
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I was listening light night the Charles Ives’ Fourth Symphony by the kids of American Symphony Orchestra and Members of Schola Cantorum under the baton of probably 180 years old Leopold Stokowski. Ives music is not exactly my cap of tea but I hardly ...
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Sine I read about the new Orion phonostage I was thinking about the whole story behind it. The whole Constellation Audio as the company that started 2-3 years back strike me as some kind of combined efforts of a group of dealer and distributors...
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I got one of those Reference Recordings 176KHz files to try. Everyone so go rave about them…
I did not truly pursuit them before as whatever they have interesting musically was released before – how much you can listen the same 5 disks even i...
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Well, the added benefits of cross-source validation is that some of the sources are stable but others are less stable and might vary in its basic quality with time. For instance digital is very stable and since you once set it up properly then it rem...
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Do not believe me, I do not believe myself! I would like to tell you honestly that if this thing would be said by other person I would accept it as a pure BS because I have no reasoning to believe that it might be true…. but it is what actually what ...
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[quote user="manisandher"] This is very interesting and something that I have not noticed. Because I cannot double the clock frequency going into the Weiss AFI1, I have tended to ignore playing/recording 4fs files. But, I've kept the second AES/E...
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The Other End of the Single End: Modern Horns Done With Flare An Interview With Dr. Bruce Edgarby Dave Glackin, printed in POSITIVE FEEDBACK. 1996
Dave Glackin interviewed Dr. Bruce Edgar in his home, prior to the 1996 WCES. A follow-up on the speak...
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It is imposable to live in Boston…and particularly since I installed that large directional rotatable antenna on my roof and able to get everything high quality from Rhode Island to New Hampshire. The only problems that I see… is the hard drive space...
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The history of stereophonic sound
1881 - Clement Adler at the Paris Electrical Exhibition put "a series of 80 telephone transmitters across the stage at the Paris Opera and connected them by wires to telephone receivers in a suite of four rooms" in ...
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There are a lot of talking nowadays among audio people about music servers and about the ripping the people’s CDs to music servers and playing from there. I always feel that it a dummy thing to do. People claim that besides the “convenience” there ar...
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Last 2-3 weeks I’ve been corresponding with a new reader of my site who sent me a few weeks back an email with a question:
“Romy, I read your comments about TTH and about “absolute tone”. Are you basically taking about timbres?”
That question made ...
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Jorge,
I know what you mean about horns, Living Presence. I love what my horns do. Palpability. Solidity. In an invisible sort of way.
I have two Ampex 300s downstair...
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These are New Tape Machine Manufactures:
https://www.ballfinger.de
https://www.thorens.com/
New Reference
https://www.horch...
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