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| Is There An "Absolute" Best Cartridge? Remember Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars III ? "Only a Sith deals in absolutes...."...... | |
| Is There An "Absolute" Best Cartridge? Raul, you are referring (maybe without knowing so...) to the Volunté Générale by J.-J. Rousseau. This gets automatic in opposition to the "Volonté de tous" of all the other audiophiles.This is an old dilemma.Even if we take you as the chief sommel... | |
| want new plinth ideas for direct-drive turntables Mikelavigne, I have seen (rather: heard...) both the Minus-K and Vibraplane changing the performance of Micro RX-5000, TW Acustic Raven AC 2, Platine Verdier and VPI TNT all for the better. I would recommend adding a suitable active or passive iso... | |
| want new plinth ideas for direct-drive turntables I know its not popular, but go and try once for heaven's sake a plinth which is suspended with low resonance frequency - below 3Hz.It is not the plinth weight, composition or raw material - isolate it from any outside vibration and your eyes will ... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Dear Darkmoebius, in teh early 1930ies you could order from H.H.Scott a "Quaranta". If you did so - and included all possible features including your own recording device with cutting lathe... - it would have cost you US$5000+ in the early 1930ies... | |
| Is There An "Absolute" Best Cartridge? Dear Raul, growing up doesn't necessary mean to leave archaic ways. We all try - some more some less - to make things important to us "better". And - well, english isn't my mother language either and I can expres myself and my thought a hell of a ... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Darkmoebius - and high-end went back all the way to the 1920/30ies and today you have 18W SE-Amplifiers (Lamm, WAVAC etc.) and super expensive full-range drivers and speakers which usually do outperform a Linkwitz-filtered 4 way speaker with a cro... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Samujohn, all what you listen - each and everything including the reel-to-reel (invented by AEG) - was developed or its design and research which led to development was requested by military.Hobby audio was there before WW2 - already alive and kic... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Darkmoebius, sorry to say in this context, that Syntax is right. While I do have respect for the brands you listed, the only "field" where the "better" succeeded for several millenia was ( and today it is beginning to change even here....) militar... | |
| Is There An "Absolute" Best Cartridge? Acoustat6, I honestly think Raul is serious in his plans and attempts to fulfill his dreams and visions. And I have no doubt that in his very personal point of view to the audio world as a whole he will succeed one far away future day. In his visi... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Dear Samujohn, no need for a thread. This has all been covered widely and by better (= more knowledgeable) audiophiles in the early 1980ies and published in the french magazine L'audiophile. After all, transistors started as tubes without vacuum a... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? If you want the 2nd order distortions of the better triodes, you can have them with transistors too. It is a matter of design - not tube vs. Transistors. But indeed - this is something for other threads. | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Samujohn, you are right - equalization can (and in pro audio it is a truly mandatory all-present tool) enhance playback intelligibility.But the result is neither true to the original spirit of high fidelity, nor does it show the real thing - appli... | |
| Is There An "Absolute" Best Cartridge? Mordante, your post was way too smart, intellectual and educational to find the applause it surely deserved. Few really like it to look into a mirror.Logic and philosophy in its consequence does not qualify for be taken serious in personal audio n... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Hi C1ferrari, it is not limited to direct-to-disc recordings. There are a lot great recording out there which can - tracked with the "right" cartridge/tonearm combination - supply the full bodied sound and physical presence one gets from the bette... |