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| Is my anti-skating too strong. Skating forces come from overhang. Period. Wrong again MC, and a couple of other posts. Skating forces can be inward or outward.I think we are all agreed:1. There is no skating force, = side force, at a null point, and 2. There is an inwar... | |
| What makes speaker's sound big? +1 +1 +1 MC give it a break, | |
| For ARC lovers, Problems? I've had little trouble with six ARC pieces owned over more than 40 years.In that time all my pre- and phono amps had been ARC until I wanted to upgrade my phono- last year and found almost no ARCs now run true balanced. I bought the van den Hul... | |
| Would you Upgrade? @mijostyn It's quite natural you will recommend others to get home demos. Only you can judge speakers without listening to them. | |
| Looking for a new phono preamp @mijostyn Dogmatic as ever. Now you can choose phono amps without listening. Worse you advise others on that basis. No worry, they are sure to see through you.As to airplanes, lucky you weren't on the two Boeing 737 Maxes that crashed, killin... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. @minostyn Dogmatic is when you opine on sound without hearing. Even Miller knows that.I suppose you choose your equipment without listening to it. The dealer's dream, but you should buy mail-order.You're sure cleverer than I; you can tell how... | |
| How does Donald Fagen do it? We met the band in Nice Airport, flying out early the day after a great concert in the Sporting Club, Monaco. Fagen was really friendly, outgoing and talkative, lovely guy, sitting with the two girl backing singers.Becker was sitting by himself t... | |
| Single driver speakers. Are they worth considering ? OP, why not stop reading this, cut to the chase, listen to some and see if you like them?Simple question, simple answer. | |
| Visual Confirmation Bias By far the largest visual confirmation bias operates with women.We all believe the great-looking ones will be good at everything else and 99% of the time we are disappointed.1% of the time we stick with it because she is simply irresistible.There ... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. @feldman4 I have too many MFSLs to check. But look for 45rpm classical symphonies presented on four discs and issued around 2005. Typically, each movement is presented on one side, so the other four sides are empty. Given the pricing effect,... | |
| Top down or bottom up? Just asking... It depends on which company makes better speakers.Which comes down to which one makes the speakers you think sound best.That one will always be best for you.Why would Wilson trickle down all their tech from the $250,000 price point to $30,000? An... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. Beats me how you guys can argue over such a simple and obvious bit of physics.Ledermann's explanation is correct.He mentions using the unmodulated run-out area of the record to observe scating activity.This is better done with an entire unmodulate... | |
| Having trouble reducing the vibrations on my turntable setup Hi again Miller"Springs bounce and resonate. Townshend controls this with an ingenious air resistance damper."You get it now? Too true pal. Why use springs if have to be damped?Lostbear: "What is the butcher's block standing on?" +1As OP has ... | |
| “Black background” — What really contributes to this phenomenon? Miller's whining on about springs again. Boing boing.Just the wrong way to go. Equipment shouldn't be allowed to oscillate.Particularly speakers, springs lead to fuzzy unfocussed sound. Blowing in the wind.Even TT designers have mostly moved fr... | |
| Which speakers did you find bright, fatiguing or just disappointing in some way? From the scurrilous stories we read about the business behaviour of Roy Johnson and Kenjit it would appear dealings with both were/are stringently to be avoided. |