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...IMO, at least. I strongly believe the name of the publication game is entertainment and the vehicle is audio-visual hardware "news" & "opinion" & pictures.[quote user="guy sergeant"]I stopped paying any attention to the ravings of magazine...
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You both misunderstand my intentions. I do read what is on this site. I enjoy and appreciate the expertise of its contributors. It is an oasis of good principles, correct motivation and an absence of commercialism. All of these things are precious an...
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So Bill Fitzmaurice and Wayne Parham are perceived by some as experts. So what? How does that impact on what you do? There are many less than competent amplifier designer/manufacturers around aswell. It will always be that way.When Dr Atk...
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Why do you care what Robert Harley, TAS or the people from Magico have to say?Why does it matter whether the reputation of horn loaded loudspeakers gets sullied in some way by these people? No manufacturer that I know of does it properly anyway. The ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Even if it is possible with a given (multichannel, faulty design) loudspeaker then the DPLOS become very fragile and appears/appears too sudden, without a gradual improvement while approaching the DPLOS. The keys are phase...
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[quote user="Hugh"]The best advice I can give to those willing to seek out the location is to put away your calculators and measuring tapes. Also, I'm convinced this ideal location tends to float around a little over time requiring slight speak...
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Hi Jim,Your comments about the operating point of the input stage and the resulting even order distortions may help explain why, whenever I have listened to the 834, it has sounded like a syrupy euphonic mess. I can get the same effect by singin...
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Antonio,Which variety of rotating gong do you need a mat for?What turntable is it?Guy...
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Sorry, I have a better understanding of the purpose of this exercise now.Are you making 2 new platters or is one to be the existing Micro Platter?Given that your RX 8000 appears to have a platter made of phosphor bronze (gunmetal) what is your s...
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Hi Romy,I think it is a 3000. The other platter/base seems (from the ebay advert) to be home-made with a 16" diameter.http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5860808877&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1I presume...
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Is this the kind of set up you're contemplating?Someone in Canada is selling this on ebay at the moment.best regards,Guy...
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The multiple motor approach is more applicable when the platter/subchassis/tonearm is suspended. It prevents the motor pulling the entire suspended mass towards itself when the stylus tries to slow the rotation of the record. It also allows alot of p...
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In the traditional setup of a single motor and platter the motor is "pulling" the platter towards itself, setup D. Could this be of any concern? Supposedly one of the reasons Clearaudio uses 3 motors (other than to charge another $10K) is to keep the...
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Hi Wojtek,
I've only seen/heard an SP25 once and I wasn't able to judge how good it was as the rest of the equipment was unfamiliar to me. There is some information about the various Technics DD turntables here.http://de.geocities.com/bc1a69...
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A: Looks very ineffective to me.B and C look too similar.D, E and F: I don't think they effective enough.I think B or C would be the most effective solution.I would agree that platter that heavy would require very "special" bearing to last a lon...
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Hi Romy,What kind of bearings are going to be supporting 42 and 62 Kg quietly?I remember a Swedish friend making a 75Kg gunmetal platter some years ago. Sounded very nice as long as the bearing lasted (which wasn't long!)Would there not be a ben...
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http://www.turntablebasics.com/beltmodels.htmlhttp://www.elexatelier.com/My dealer had some belts made for me many years ago without too much trouble. The problem, to me, was that the ends were spliced together and one could feel a tiny bump. The bel...
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Given that most commercially produced audio equipment is originally the work of engineers, and given that most of it doesn't perform as well as one would like then it is fair to say that engineers generally haven't succeeded in applying what they hav...
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I must have skipped the lecture on the emotions of materials when I did my engineering degree...seriously though,I can understand the concept of impedance matching materials, I can see that different materials would have different mechanical (resonan...
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"Cho-san, the chief-designer of Micro, told me that the art of turntables design is the art of recognizing and managing emotions in materials."What the hell does this nonsense mean?best regards,Guy...
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Roman notes among other things: I wrote 5 years ago at AA (...) that: "in the contemporary audio world the audio reviewing process is nothing more then a creation of literature that brings a perception of prospective readers to the lim...
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Beside the fact that Mr Fremer doesn't know or understand the difference between jealousy and envy I'm afraid he doesn't gather and express his thoughts terribly well either. Indeed he seems to be a "little dipshit who can't write and is barel...
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You do make me laugh sometimes! You really do seem to have problems in seeing the merits in anything if it doesn't fully satisfy the very particular performance criteria you set. As a species such inflexibility wouldn't allow you to evolve very much ...
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Hi Romy,B&W are the internationally acknowledged masters in using pseudo-science in their marketing and very effective it is too. If ever there was a quotient for the difference between claimed and actual performance theirs would be the largest. ...
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Hi Romy,I've seen and heard many products in which an aspect of the design is interesting, even thought provoking but where that idea's implementation is poorly achieved. It doesn't mean that one can't learn anything from the product even if it's onl...
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I have looked at the Feastrex website. The picture you show is of one of their permanent magnet drivers. This uses their Naturflux magnetic circuit. Mr Akiyama's quote also refers to one of these permanent magnet drivers so you shouldn't be atta...
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"Go ahead and mock me,
Mr. Pussywhipped, because I am me, and you are just some little twerp
trying to get attention by wanking your crap on this website!"If this is the level of analysis available at Stereophile nowadays I really must get a subscr...
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I agree entirely with your sentiments regarding marketing bs and its new found application in the promotion of field coils. I do have a problem however with the notion that the reproduction of 'western' music requires different attributes than ...
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given that you are only really interested in measuring the field strength in one particular size of magnet gap ie that of the S2, is it worth considering making your own as in this link. http://home5.inet.tele.dk/f-hammer/fildcoil/measure.htmOne coil...
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Romy,You probably already know this site but just in case you don't:http://www.lessemf.com/gauss.html...
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