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Which is more accurate: digital or vinyl?
When you bake a tape, it takes a few years for it to regain the moisture chased out while baked. IOW, you have plenty of time to work with the tape- certainly more than 48 hours.The reason you have to bake them has nothing to do with whale oil :) ... 
Which is more accurate: digital or vinyl?
I am very used to hearing things that are hard to see on the oscilloscope. Interestingly, instrument manufacturers use a different rule for scanning a signal. The rule of thumb is 10x the highest frequency to be displayed.This is quite different f... 
Recordings with BASS
Here's a few:http://www.atma-sphere.com/Backup/awards/bya/index.html 
Which is more accurate: digital or vinyl?
Out of curiosity, what was the analog set-up that you had to compare to the high dollar digital playback?The analog setup was a re-tipped Grasshopper 2, mounted on a Triplanar arm which was in turn on a Kuzma Stabi Reference. The arm was set up wi... 
Kuzma 4Point Tri-Planar
Sorry Dan_ed, we'll just have to disagree on that one... 
Kuzma 4Point Tri-Planar
Dougdeacon, I think the thing I am reacting to in your posts is the word 'chaotic'. What meaning/context are you using that word? As in Chaos Theory? BTW that is the meaning that I used. I maintain that wood is relatively unquantified with regards... 
Actually difference between class A and AB?
Mapman, I suspect that that is sort of true, at least I have hope for it but have yet to see a class D amp come anywhere close to what I expect out of an amp. I think the technology has more to offer than we have seen available so far though.Joeni... 
Phono Pre-amp with XLR
Tdaudio, if the preamp is differential, but you only drive one input, perhaps the non-inverting input (with the other input being tied to ground, where the minus output of the cartridge is also tied), the gain will be exactly the same as if you we... 
Kuzma 4Point Tri-Planar
Yes, and at the same time a set of wood blocks can be quite loud, as can even a set of drum sticks. And they make instruments out of metal too- a dobro is a good example.The point is that wood is not **inherently** non-resonant. If its going to ha... 
Actually difference between class A and AB?
Liguy, I have to disagree, despite Nelson's paper. The designation of 'AB' **already** "denotes that the amplifier operates in Class A up to a certain power level then switches over to Class B. This switch point is determined by the bias.", as you... 
Which is more accurate: digital or vinyl?
Its a matter of degree though. You could say that the record is made of individual molecules but they fit together perfectly and occur at a scale that makes it insignificant. Similar with digital. It all depends on sampling frequency, sample size,... 
Kuzma 4Point Tri-Planar
Another Romy the Cat candidate.And another... 
Phono Pre-amp with XLR
RCA jacks can be used as an input to a balanced preamp. How it works is that the RCA jack is isolated from the chassis ground, so that the 'ground' connection of the RCA can function as the inverting input to the balanced preamp.There are some pro... 
Kuzma 4Point Tri-Planar
Wood is a chaotic material comprised of millions of random grain boundaries at varying angles surrounding cells with differing sizes, shapes and densities. Such a structure tends NOT to allow standing waves (resonances) to propagate or reinforce e... 
Phono Pre-amp with XLR
Wolf_garcia, surprisingly (to me anyway), no, 'we' collectively don't seem to know that, even though that is the fact of the matter.I say this because when we introduced the MP-1 22 years ago, it was the first balanced line preamp made. The fact t...