dgarretson
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| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Kijanki, my view is that analytic & sterile err at the opposite extreme of unresolving warmth. Both kinds of extremes are colorations and as such, represent deviations from neutrality. There are many instances in which internal mods to electro... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? "Sounding better and sounding neutral are two completely different things."Assuming that one accepts common usage in critical vocabulary that "neutral" means "uncolored," can you suggest a better term than neutral to describe the experience of "be... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Bryon, several posts back you raise interesting points by distinguishing between perceptions and preferences, while acknowledging their interrelatedness. You suggest that perception and preference are fungible characteristics that both evolve thro... | |
| Sundsmith rebuild. Thanks, Al. My blood pressure dropped a psi or two toward normal. | |
| Review: ALLNIC HT 2500 Head Amplifier Nuvistor Tube preamp Excellent review. You had me jumping off to put on that Steven Stills '70 solo album. In spots the mix is a bit dated with panned guitar licks. But images seem solid where intended. I have not yet heard Allnic, but anyone interested should know th... | |
| Review: Trans-fi Terminator II Tonearm To follow up on this review, I had recently been considering update to T-Pro. T-Pro has a solid aluminum alloy block in place of the hardwood core at the interface between the air manifold and the arm base. It also adds on-the-fly VTA. Since I hav... | |
| Sundsmith rebuild. That's very interesting, as I have been waiting now seven months for my first Soundsmith retip. I have been patient & am still hoping for the best, but this approaches my limit. | |
| Sundsmith rebuild. How long did you have to wait for the work to be done? | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? To whip the horse's eyes with one more water analogy, "You can bring a horticulture but you can't make her think."Too much abstraction, Dorothy Parker? | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Bryon wrote, "by improving the way you think about things, you improve the way you perceive things."Similarly, as an English teacher once told me, if you can't communicate clearly in words, you are not thinking clearly. This thread evidenced clear... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? A fuller extract of ideas from G. Holt’s audio glossary seems relevant in context:1. Frequency response: Phase shift and distortion can sound like frequency-response aberrations.(Note 1: Perception of neutral frequency response may be subjectively... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Newbee, Sorry I was inhospitable. Your speculation that the entirety of this thread constitutes trolling is interesting. Even more interesting, the derivation of internet trolling comes from the practice of TROLLING FOR NEWBIES, as popularized by ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Tolstoy: "Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."Similar to Barnard Malamud's Roy Hobbs in the "The Natural", who tried with futility to hit a hectoring dwarf (troll?) in the grands... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Which part didn't you like, the Viagra or the sex? | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Without disgorging the entire critical vocabulary, it may be worth exploring several aspects of coloration that relate to one listener's perception of neutrality. Anyone who prefers a boomy cabinet may go at it. It would be particularly interestin... |