barryaudiophile
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| What exactly is colored sound? Let me offer a thought.What you call 'color' is technically referred to as 'timbre'. We consider a 'sound' made up of collections of individual audio domane energies that each in turn are made up of :1 - Amplitudes - audio energy filling a freque... | |
| "Straight" talk You might consider getting a Black Swan to try. The cartridge loading in real time from the front panel will give you new tools to tweak' the stylus/record grove relationship and thus reproduction timbre and space. | |
| Digital Music sounds too bright? Oy yea, the problm was not that the sound was from a digital source. What was happening was all the result of the acoustic (analog) sound waves and had nothing to do with original recorded media, digital or analog, the media is not blame or be he... | |
| Digital Music sounds too bright? The problem was what is called the Hass Effect and the subsequent 4 - 5 milliSecond delay caused by the sound traveling across the screen (both ways) and emitting from the sharp edge of the other side. | |
| The longest you have owned any gear? I have a BT-1 preamp, EQ-1 RIAA equalizer, and 50 watt AMP-1 still in use from 1974. All built by the Quintessence Group from Sacramento. I switch the preamp out with a BT-2 from Audionics of Oregon circa 1980, still sweet! The EQ is especially ... | |
| Are future improvements in Amp/PreAmps slowing to a crawl? Interesting thought, it basically wrong and right. Yes, the circuit topologies commonly used are reaching a limit in refinement. No, there are other topologies that we are just exploring that are proving better. I and others have heard them, som... | |
| If you were to market a product, what would you do? A most interesting thread, thank you.I too am on the road to going back into the hi-fi business. I did this once before in 1970, grew it to 40 employees and 50 dealers. A California Divorce took care off all of that and I moved into the back of ... | |
| What Turnatable now? While the turntable is important it is only part of the front end of the process. It starts with the Record, the disc itself. The stylus and thus cartridge is stimulated by the movement of the disc and are managed by the arm. Mechanical energy ... |