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| Analytical or Musical Which way to go? David12, the Wilsons are voiced by listening too. If you have them on the right gear they are quite musical, also very revealing. But put them on the wrong gear and they can sound the way you describe.In speakers its really important to see what t... | |
| What makes music so congested? See if you find a British original LP of that and see if you still say the same thing (Atlantic 'Plum' label). The mix is OK FWIW, though its not going to be as spacious as many jazz LPs, its pretty standard fare for the period. Its not likely IMO... | |
| Stylus Drag You don't hear the change in pitch as such. You hear it as a shaky soundstage. Speed variation causes the tonearm to decrease and increase skating forces. This makes the soundstage less solid. This is why speed stability is so important. | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Dover, it has been sitting for some decades, I suspect.The trust bearings are interesting. They are a set of polished platforms that reside beneath the platter. The drive shaft comes through the center and has nothing to do with them! | |
| Analytical or Musical Which way to go? To say that the wrong measurements have been made for decades would be to take the easy way out. It might be far more appropriate to say that in the absence of the "right" measurement, too much emphasis has been placed on the "wrong" measurement.I... | |
| Looking for the BASS Hi Paul, I try to stay away from anything that increases the complexity of the signal path. If a subwoofer can be done without messing with that, that is how I would do it. Usually you have troubles getting subwoofers to match up with the rest of ... | |
| Cary SLP-05 Output Capacitor Question You can assume that the shunt value Jeffreybehr mentions to be around 1Mohm, if you can't find it. This is used to prevent the output cap from having a charge on it that could damage an amplifier input.That would make your total driving impedance ... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy I picked up a Timeline as I was interested in how our Scully Lathe was doing while cutting lacquers.The Scully uses a 1/8 horsepower Bodine AC synchronous motor, driving a transmission that then drives the platter via a drive shaft.With the cutter... | |
| Tube Preamp Paired with Tube Phono Stage? Chervokas, one of the problems with RF is it can be rectified by elements of the preamp circuit itself. Tubes often tend to be a little less susceptible on account of transistor junctions can rectify the RF energy fairly efficiently if not properl... | |
| Analytical or Musical Which way to go? How can you debate 'taste' preferences? It does make for a lively discussion, but as I first heard from my Dad...'There is no accounting for tastes'. But again, it does make for a fun discussion.Its true that there is no accounting for taste. But ... | |
| Tube Preamp Paired with Tube Phono Stage? Chervokas, As far as an undamped LOMC goes, there is no effect whatsoever in the audio band, other than the voltage output- with no load its output will be a little higher, not much.The issue is that the coils in the cartridge have so little induc... | |
| Tube Preamp Paired with Tube Phono Stage? Chervokas, to be clear: if you load the cartridge with a lower resistance than your 10:1 or 11:1 ratio, all that happens at audio frequencies is you may reduce the output voltage of the cartridge. Its bandwidth will be unchanged.So in theory you w... | |
| Why do I like Class AB better than Class A? Mrtennis, you can expect most transistor amps to be somewhat bright and lacking bass on most full-range ESLs like the Quad ESL 63.The impedance curve of such speakers and the way they operate simply does not favor most transistor designs. there is... | |
| Problem with loud buzzing noise on amplifier This sounds like the amplifier could be oscillating. Its not likely to be a transformer problem- that would not damage output transistors. I would get the amplifier to a reliable service department or the manufacturer. If you don't attend to it, t... | |
| Explain Class A amp to non audiophile friends What is the difference in a single ended solid state class A amp and one that is not single ended?A single-ended class A transistor amplifier will be very inefficient. It will also be higher distortion, as the 2nd transistor of a push-pull class A... |