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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Adobe Audition by Serge on 2014-10-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DAW is down… new DAW. in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Win 7 and WaveLab 6 [/quote]Well some years ago I need to edit some cassette to digital transfers and I tried a few DAW softwares for Windows (which were available as free trials). Adobe Audition was by far the least damag...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Down one pound each day by Serge on 2014-10-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New old records shopping in Analog Playback  3 Replies 
There used to be (is?) a cluster of shops in London Notting Hill District (Notting Hill Record Exchange?) where they'd buy a record from a customer put it on sale priced as new and then each day cut the price by one pound. It was funny to see the sti...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: In defence by Serge on 2014-07-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Estonian idiocy: Estelon in Audio News  15 Replies 
Well in defence for the exhibitors who travelled from Estonia I'll say that the designer himself speaks no English or German so he delegated the talk to his daughter (also working for the company but not a technical person). So some things really got...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Folders? by Serge on 2013-10-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to organize files within DAW in Didital Things  1 Replies 
Well, I do it manually and I use folders. While the usual arrangement is by period then composer you can also place shortcuts within a folder for cross-referencing, eg a folder 'Mozart Piono Concerto, Clara Haskil' can contain a shortcut to a 'Pianis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Former Audio Alchemy by Serge on 2013-02-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Orion Phono Preamplifier in Analog Playback  15 Replies 
Isn't Constellation Audio run by Peter Madnick, formerly with Audio Alchemy?His former colleague Mark Schifter has a very bad reputation I believe, don't know if I should extend it to Constellation Audio or not....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Suspension ageing by Serge on 2012-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Fidelity Research FR-7 in Analog Playback  42 Replies 
Quote:"Degradation   of   natural   rubber   can   be   caused   by   a   variety   of environmental   factors,   such   as   elevated   temperature,   humidity,   impurities, mechanical  load,  irradiation  and  chemicals.  In  the  presence  of  at...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #364: Baby Grand by Serge on 2012-07-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
Which piano make your girlfriend brought?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #105: European GOTO prices by Serge on 2012-05-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
I may be repeating someonelses's post but herehttp://audio-life.nl/sites/default/files/goto-prijslijst-audio-life.pdfhttp://audio-life.nl/sites/default/files/goto-unit-specifications.pdfyou'll find EU prices and specs for GOTO drive units and horns....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #95: I was told Air Force One is designed by original MicroSeiki designer a... by Serge on 2012-05-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
Well, an informed source (a Japanese journalist) told me that the TT is designed by orignail MicroSeiki owner. My guess is that Stella Inc, which is a distribution company, financed production.A little video is here http://hifiblog.livejournal.com/39...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: Speaker mismatch I am sure by Serge on 2012-03-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Opera Room in Audio Discussions  77 Replies 
Romy consider that the engineers who did your Altecs in their worst nightmare could not imagine their lovely cinema speakers would be used with solid state amplifier which badly distorts on LOW power levels. It has 100 crappy watts and the first watt...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A horn workshop by Serge on 2012-03-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A horn workshop in Horn-Loaded Speakers  1 Replies 
I think it wasn't yet mentioned here:a hornmaker in Serbiahttp://www.beaconos.com/products.htm...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Couple of photos by Serge on 2012-02-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My CES in Audio News  1 Replies 
Haniwa / Kubotek[url=http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/fermata10/view/533549/][img]http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5602/78484184.1/0_8242d_d7b2dfac_L.jpg[/img][/url] Kondo TT which looks very much like Microseiki[url=http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/fermata10...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: My CES by Serge on 2012-01-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My CES in Audio News  1 Replies 
Well, I would say this CES was very low on decent sound. Sometimes I had to fight with the urge to leave a room or two immediately after hearing a few bars of music being played.Still the hope is not lost. At a fringe show at the Flamingo hotel (THE ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Zero Ohm Loading by Serge on 2011-11-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to run MM-type cartridge into MC phonostage? in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
Well, I think it may be something like Tominari of Dynavector used to do with his Phono stage a while ago. He considered the cartridge as a current source which sorts of 'unloads' it. http://www.dynavector.com/products/amp/e_pha200.html...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: High Speed Transports Are No Good by Serge on 2011-09-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Oppo DVD player as a transport. in Didital Things  10 Replies 
Well, I always noticed that 'universal' transports which spin the CD at 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x (faster each year) sound much muddier and grainier then the dedicated CD ones. Unfortunately nowadays there are hardly one or two commercially available OEM CD-t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Miyajima makes monos by Serge on 2011-07-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mono cartridges paradox. in Analog Playback  11 Replies 
http://www.hifi.com.sg/products/cartridge/miyajima/monaural.htm http://www.miyajima-lab.com/e-mono.html
Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: This Peirre Clement looks like a moving iron or something by Serge on 2011-07-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mono cartridges paradox. in Analog Playback  11 Replies 
[quote user="N-set"]Has anybody tried this:http://www.analog-collector.com/bonus/cellules/default.htmVery costly and a copy but..maybe...?[/quote]Looks like a cross between moving iron and some old and forgotten electromagnetic cart from the 30-s. Is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: You came to a wrong place, buddy by Serge on 2011-07-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Story of my discovery - Exclusive! for this site and its own... in Audio News  2 Replies 
Oh no. Not this foolishness here. Spare us, please....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Another one from TransFi by Serge on 2011-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rim drive? in Analog Playback  20 Replies 
 http://www.trans-fi.com/salvation.htmUnknown (to me) manufacturer. Uk based? Seem to have some kind of lever to remove the idler from the O-ring after stopping the rotation....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Don't know much about GIP by Serge on 2011-05-30 
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Romy, I am quite sure I know less about GIP then you... US rep? Not Joe Roberts, I hope. On the brochure they have web-site addresses, there are two of them: www.silbatoneacoustics.com and www.gip-laboratory.com. It is possible that those are two sep...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: More scans from GIP brochure by Serge on 2011-05-30 
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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: GIP Brochure by Serge on 2011-05-30 
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Looking through the post-Munich leaflet collection I discovered a have a SIlbatone/GIP brochure.Take a look....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: In the corner by Serge on 2011-05-27 
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You can see the company's founder, Imai-san, sitting in the far left corner of the last photo. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: GIP by Serge on 2011-05-26 
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Well, someone named lNHUMANE left this comment at YouTube (he is most probably right):"That WE16B speaker is set up for stereo, not mono. There are two sets of drivers and two horns with a common mouth.  Of course, stereo did not exist when it was in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Sound at the Show by Serge on 2011-05-26 
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Needless to say the sonic impressions I am getting at the shows may be deceptive and always are very preliminary: that's the nature of an event like that. Who knows what's happening in the mains while I am listening, may b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Audiotekne by Serge on 2011-05-26 
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Well I have some literature from the Show and about the Audio Tekne speaker I can say that:- it has an outboard crossover, which I guess is passive and uses a lot of transformers- woofer diameter is 380 mm...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Audiotekne horns by Serge on 2011-05-25 
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[url=http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/fermata10/view/419326/][img]http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5304/fermata10.0/0_665fe_54c6fb44_L.jpg[/img][/url] ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Blumenhofer Acoustics by Serge on 2011-05-25 
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[url=http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/fermata10/view/419328/][img]http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5908/fermata10.0/0_66600_fc2be5e6_L.jpg[/img][/url] ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: More Silbatone by Serge on 2011-05-25 
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[url=http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/fermata10/view/419331/][img]http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4406/fermata10.0/0_66603_b001a4be_L.jpg[/img][/url] ...

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[url=http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/fermata10/view/419332/][img]http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5908/fermata10.1/0_66604_183507b0_L.jpg[/img][/url] ...
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