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| Help Building an Audio Room Great news! Congratulations on your listening room. And you are in the basement. If you don't already have one, pour a really solid concrete floor slab. It will ground all your components: turntable if you have one, even CD player, certainly s... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live No. So we're all wasting our time here. | |
| Do YOU have a flat frequency response in your room? Of course not. No-one does. Thank you @wturkey | |
| To couple, or not to couple, that is the question This topic is older than the hills. As long as you've got a solid floor (not suspended wood for instance) it's spikes every time. If you mount flexibly the speaker will move and smear the sound, especially low frequency. As for sprrings.....boi... | |
| Direct Drive @dover and @testpilot are not wrong. DD motors are controlled by computer speed measurement and are constantly being speeded up and slowed down to achieve the designer's aim of a perfectly stable speed. In the event they cannot achieve a stable ... | |
| One turntable with two arms, or two turntables with one each - which would you prefer? One turntable with one arm. But my arm is the Simon Yorke Aeroarm that is an air-bearing parallel tracker. Alternative moving carriages (arms) can each be ptr-set up with a cartridge and swapped out in a couple of minutes - only need to slide th... | |
| Isn’t the forum to post reviews of gear you have experience with? All the above few posts contain opinion(s). I challenge anyone here to write a post that does not contain an opinion. (there, I've done it). | |
| How many turntables have you owned? Wow. So many here are into Japanese turntables. As a generality electrical engineering: great. Mechanical engineering: not so. Problem is nearly all the SQ functionality of a TT is on the mechanical side. Many people believe that if the platt... | |
| The thing about objectivists is... Early on, I made the point that digital destroys PRaT because of clock issues. There were two responses saying (essentially and respectively) this is not an issue because non-digital recording has bigger problems and digital may have problems but... | |
| The thing about objectivists is... Digital clocks could be superbly accurate, but that is not the issue. The issue is their implementation as part of the DA conversion process. The issue with digital is a fundamental one - why convert analogue, the sound we can hear, to digital. ... | |
| Bowers and Wilkins, 801 D4 @graystoke I had original 801s for many years when they were freshly launched (1995?) and I was very happy. Both the tweeters failed after around 7 years, not in a user-induced event. I replaced and sold on at that point, replacing with ML CLX... | |
| The thing about objectivists is... Well well well. Objectivity and subjectivity are not the same thing. Wow. I didn't know that. @gladmo , where did you read all this? I think that's enough masturbation for one discussion. Rhythm and pace is the degree to which there is a lif... | |
| Recommendation on speakers for listening to live music You are not listening to live music, you are listening to recordings. Just use your regular speakers. | |
| Comment about SS and Tubes @cinqcepages It is not just a question of watts per channel. Most will agree it is more importantly a case of having a big reserve of power immediately available to enable correct reproduction of a sudden high level transient, e.g. the hitting... | |
| Vintage Stanton cartridge — extreme lean to one side normal? I know an old guy named Stanton who leans to one side. @boomerbillone It almost certainly won't be the stylus. The cantilever needs replacing. As you say, if he really loves it, best to have the cart rebuilt by a qualified practitioner. |