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| How does high-pass filter requirement affect system decisions? There are a fair number of Vandersteen dealers who are also Audio Research dealers, the pairing of Richard's speakers and ARC tube amps being a long-time favorite. I've heard that coupling at many shows, and at length at Brooks Berdan Ltd. and Opt... | |
| Rythmik subwoofers? Fair enough rlb. On the other hand, there are a fair number of happy Rythmik owners, including the audiophile mastering house Sterling Sound, who have three pair of F15's in their monitoring systems. All companies have a percentage of product fail... | |
| Evaluating a system - what do you listen for? I would add two more Randy---violin and cymbal, to test a systems ability at high frequency timbre. Piano and snare drum also tell you about that, but not to the same degree. Getting the ping/click of a drumstick tip on a cymbal right, and the she... | |
| Adding mass to a tonearm Adding weights to the headshell DOES increase the effective mass of the arm. Not just because of the weight itself, but also because to then balance the arm, the counterweight on the back end will need to be moved further from the arm's pivot, whi... | |
| Boulder monoblock 2150 I loved when researches discovered that playing Mozart to babies made their brains develop faster. The brain tries to make sense of the information it receives, and the more complex, abstract nature of Classical music demands more of it. Mental ex... | |
| Tune of the Day nutty's Bobby Darin choice reminded me to listen to another of his songs, "Beyond The Sea". The song is okay, but what makes the track so great is the drum break (not long enough to be called a solo) in the middle, played by the great Don Lamond. ... | |
| LONDON Decca, Tzar DST and similar cartridges The 15k impedance in combination with the added capacitance creates a damped electronic circuit. The Decca/London design suffers from an inherent high-frequency resonant peak, plus ringing in the time domain, which the damped circuit addresses. I ... | |
| Floor Protection Discs Pennies. | |
| Boulder monoblock 2150 Daves suggestion regarding socioeconomic comments is a valid one, and upon reading it, I realized I had unintentionally done just what he advised against. What I was attempting to say was not that the wealthy may not be passionate about music---he... | |
| Evaluating a system - what do you listen for? Piano is an instrument about as difficult to reproduce as there is. As jafant just said, both percussive and melodic, it's frequency range also being very, very wide---very low to relatively high. That makes it very revealing of the octave-to-octa... | |
| 6922 Tubes! Wow, thanks a million Brad. Yeah, Lake Oswego is only about a half hour drive from me. Jena Labs has a dealer in Portland too, Echo Audio. Rather than paying Upscale more for each tube, maybe I can take all my tubes to Jena and have them treated. ... | |
| Evaluating a system - what do you listen for? I remembered the term! Back EMF, or electro-magnetic force. That’s what the woofer sends back to the power amp, different amps responding to it in different ways. I believe amps employing a lot of negative feedback have a more difficult time deali... | |
| Evaluating a system - what do you listen for? Power amps DO interact with the speakers they are hooked up to, (particularly at high and low frequencies), different drivers in different ways. Dynamic woofers are well-known to send a signal back to the power amp, though I forget what that pheno... | |
| Boulder monoblock 2150 One reason very wealthy people rarely have a high-end system may be that they aren’t as passionate about music as are we. I got my first better-than-normal system because I heard music played through the one of a friend, and it radically improved ... | |
| Wilson Audio Haters For transparency and openness, no loudspeaker using dynamic drivers is going to equal an electrostatic or ribbon, imo. Magnetic-planars, though perhaps not as transparent as ESL’s, are also very open sounding. None of these will play as loud, go a... |