bifwynne
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| Heads Up: ARC is introducing the new SP-20 in Fall Phd .... thank you for an intelligent response. | |
| has anyone else tried Lloyd Walkers latest tweak Judy ...., another pejorative post. Who is this bald huckster and fat dumpster? Is this an attempt at droll humor. Because if it is, it is impolite, personal and defamatory. | |
| VPI 3D tonearm Judy ..., I just scanned some of your Forum posts. There's a definite negative and cynical bias in most of your responses. Assuming you are a sincere and serious hobbyist, please list your system components for member comments and reactions. | |
| Heads Up: ARC is introducing the new SP-20 in Fall Judy, .... I respectfully disagree with just about everything you just posted, especially ARC being a dinosaur manufacturer that has not been relevant for the last 10 years. If I were to counterpoint every one of your contentions, my response woul... | |
| Heads Up: ARC is introducing the new SP-20 in Fall Al and Taters, of course I have no hard data and you may be 100% correct. Just a knee jerk reaction, your estimates seem kinda low. Perhaps some former industry folks might weigh in. I wouldn't expect folks on the manufacturing side to respond. Th... | |
| Lyra and VPI Scout Btw, one last thought. If you search the Forum for threads about SoundSmith cartridge/VPI JMW tone arm compatibility, many members have commented that there seems to be a special synergy with the two products. For example, the VPI Zephyr is a grea... | |
| Lyra and VPI Scout Jeff, I have a Kleos mounted on a Classic 3 arm. I think the performance is superb, sans damping fluid. Check and double check your settings. I initially set VTA at 90 degrees, then made some minor VTA on the fly adjustments. As I recall, I raised... | |
| Stereo or monaural for solo instruments Hey Liz, sorry to read about your hearing problems. You're a serious hobbyist who has added much to the Forum. My compliments on your stoic acceptance of the situation and willpower to push on and take what you can from the gear. | |
| Heads Up: ARC is introducing the new SP-20 in Fall Here's a ballpark guess of hard costs that go into manufacturing a Ref 150 which has a MSRP of $13K. I admit having no actual data to which to base my guest-I-mate, just experience as an accountant. If the Ref retails for $13K, I guess dealer cost... | |
| has anyone else tried Lloyd Walkers latest tweak Mustang that's +2. Btw, does that include pet rocks to?? LOL ;>') | |
| audio research REF 150 Ref 150 Update: Been listening to a variety of music from both CD and LP sources. Currently listening to von Karajan conducting Berlin Philharmonic, performing Schubert's 8th and 9th Symphonies (DG) on my CD player. I will dispense with the usual ... | |
| Heads Up: ARC is introducing the new SP-20 in Fall Tater ... what I am about to say is a "chicken and egg" observation. As I said above, I usually buy pre-owned or refurbed gear for the reasons you just posted. Also, because I won't pay full retail -- it's too darn expensive. Not that 60+% of reta... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Don ... I have heard or read that there are acoustic specialists who do just what you said. But in my anecdotal story, all the fiddling in the world didn't change the outcome. Brand P killed Brand X. And as I said above, I don't know why. The outc... | |
| Heads Up: ARC is introducing the new SP-20 in Fall Taters, my OP responds to your point: "MSRP is $9000 -- a veritable bargain. ;-( "I agree with your comment that ARC gear isn't cheap. And like you, I purchase gear that is either preowned or "refurbed" (i.e., gear that ARC used as a show or deale... | |
| Speaker Impedance: Resistance and Phase Question Al, I think you touched on my question in your post above about "[t]he phase angle of the impedance of a speaker, at a given frequency, is the angle of the "vector sum" of the magnitudes of the resistive, inductive, and capacitive components of th... |