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| the perfect tonearm Dertonarm, the G2.2 and the Grado cartridges are well-known for something that is sometimes called the 'Grado dance', although it is certainly not the fault of the cartridge! It is merely that the effective mass of the system is incorrect for the ... | |
| Audio advancement - why? In case it was not clear, the point of my prior post is the fact that tubes happen to obey the rules of human hearing to a much greater degree than transistors do, hence the reason why it is so much easier to make a musical sounding tube amplifier... | |
| Audio advancement - why? Milpai, as humans we hear in a very specific way- there are certain types of distortions that our ears don't care a lot about and there are other distortions that our ears care *a lot* about.For example, we used the presence of odd-ordered harmoni... | |
| the perfect tonearm If you do get the G2.2, just be aware that it is incompatible with the Grado cartridge line.Of course if you have a budget of $2K for a used arm, with some patience you might find on older Triplanar, like a Mk6 or early Mk7, which seems to be a be... | |
| Why is the price of new tonearms so high Dertonearm and Raul, I have a suggestion for both of you that you will find very useful if you are not doing or have not done this already:I'm all for advancing the art. One of the most useful things I have done that has helped me immensely is to ... | |
| Riaa curve I might have a different viewpoint here- I feel that it is not a good idea to excercise synergistic effects. Instead, I prefer that each component operate out of its own strengths, that you are not compensating for a brightness in one component by... | |
| Riaa curve Eldartford, its my opinion that in high end audio you build the equipment to do the job, then figure out how much it costs when you are done. It is a bit different from targeting a bomb :) | |
| What year did tube lose to SS In 1986 Pioneer and Sansui were both still making a tube receiver (all tube except for the phono section). By 1969 both had stopped. So my vote is 1968 was the last year that the major audio companies were seriously into tubes.Mac got out in 1969.... | |
| Riaa curve Eldartford, that one is easy! We use a linear recording method, even if recording digitally. By that I mean linear as opposed to logarithmic.The linear system requires flat frequency response. So we adhere to getting the RIAA correct in the same w... | |
| Why is the price of new tonearms so high Perrew, one could use the tape outs of our preamp, but one function of the linestage that most people don't realize is that it must control the interconnect cable as well. In a stand-alone phono section this does become a source of coloration. Tha... | |
| Riaa curve Eldartford, it might be, but in the world of high end, the difference between HIFI and the ability to sound like real music exists in the nuances. That is why there are Teflon caps, high precision resistors, care in grounding layouts, spec-ing out... | |
| Sensitive enough speakers for low power SET Classic Audio Loudspeakers would be another. They make a Hartsfield reproduction that is about 103db and very wide bandwidth, plus the T-1 and T-3 models (which are available in field coil versions) are about 97 db (98 if field coil) but have band... | |
| Why is the price of new tonearms so high Perrew, as T_bone has pointed out, we do make exactly that, continuously for the last 20 years.Its not every day that someone asks about something like that, so I had to ask. Fortunately, operating a cartridge in balanced mode is at least one thin... | |
| Riaa curve Eldartford, you are right about that process, but the producer of an LP would never have the EQ of the RIAA messed with! Usually the issue is a private studio and producer have made a recording. They want an LP, so they send the tape to someone wh... | |
| Why is the price of new tonearms so high Perrew, are you thinking of an all-tube fully-differential phono stage too? |