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| Top 10 vintage cassette decks Gotta be Nakamichi. But any left will need a full service before use. It still won't sound nearly as good as a decent record player though. +1 @holmz A badass B Series Revox reel to reel running 1/4 inch tape at 7.5 ips will sound an awful... | |
| New 55,000 Euro tonearm Having researched further the Houdini cartridge decoupler and the principles behind their arm, I learn that their idea is to decouple the cartridge from the arm by securing it to the arm with a non-rigid fixing. This is just about the most stupid... | |
| New 55,000 Euro tonearm I guess Mikey's already bought his. And some oligarchs who still have a bit of disposable. SAT is too much bling for me. With that amount of bling I seriously question if the designer is really wedded only to good engineering. He talks the tal... | |
| What does switching back of amp from 8 to 4 ohms do? @gregdude You're right Greg. Russ's answer is pretty much the same as most of the others. Very few speakers have traces that don't go below 6 ohms. Ergo very few speakers should be connected to the 8 ohm tap. Mainly only 'full-range' horns a... | |
| McIntosh Group purchased by PE firm @wturkey I wish you were right! It is far far worse than you think. PE is an evil that is destroying business all around the world. It cares nothing for the businesses it buys nor the people in them or the products they sell. It is simple ... | |
| How much faster of a sub is the REL T5X vs SVS SB12-NSD If you send a signal to a well-designed sub-woofer it seems to me it will come back at you at pretty much the same time, whatever the model. Why are you interested in 'fast'? | |
| Old CDs and records @rvpiano Send the LPs my way. Bin the CDs. Streaming is robbing artists by (sometimes) paying them a small fraction of what they used to earn from physical sales. In addition to those sellers who do pay something, he industry is rife with che... | |
| Michael Fremer leaves Analog Planet Pity. I quite liked Mikey's columns but unfortunately his liking for expensive kit (especially turntables/arms) may be associated with the terms on which he is said to be able to acquire them. In the good old days his reference for 8 years was S... | |
| What are we objectivists missing? @henry53 "The product measured 0.003% distortion. You cannot hear 0.003% distortion. The same pages waxes lyrical about a turntable that has 0.06% wow and flutter, that's 200 times higher?" Back to math juniors Henry. That's 20 times higher... | |
| What are we objectivists missing? "The most reliable method is to listen." @ghdprentice @jtucker The most reliable method is to listen. BLIND. Repeated ABX testing is required. A consistent score of 95% or better indicates a valid distinction. All else is entirely inva... | |
| What's on your Dac tonight? @knighttodd I thought of it instantaneously when I say the post. But over here in UK, I don't tune in for hours after you people in the US of A. There may be some who want to pick threads up in the early hours, but I am not one of those. I am... | |
| What's on your Dac tonight? Dither. | |
| AudioMagic Fuses Bad Quality I Do Not Recommend!! A FUSE IS A FUSE IS A FUSE IS A FUSE Just pay your 20c.for a normal standard properly built fuse, mass produced in their millions. You can paint it red if it makes you feel better. | |
| Dumbest cable question @noske That isn't the dumbest question but it sure is the dumbest answer. The seasons are not caused by the sun being colder on one side than the other. They are caused by the tilt of that axis of the earth at about 22º which causes the intens... | |
| Why Is Hi Fi Gear So Darn Expensive? Hi-end hi-fi is all about creating a demand. This has to be done with advertising and marketing, which are very costly. That's where a lot of sales revenue disappears; the $25,000 or 50% of revenue in @mapman 's post. Then you have all the over... |