dgarretson
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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul, when you were experimenting with high load values for MM/MI, did you find that any of the cartridges preferred loading >100K? Reason is I am constructing a circuit to provide continuously variable loading and need to select a value for... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? This simile of a filtering ski goggle is interesting, as is the water analogy. Perhaps audio components are analogous to brightness and contrast controls on a TV. With such controls it is possible to vary saturation and to whiten or darken the vis... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Cbw723, I can't extend my experience of close convergence between modded analog & digital sources to downstream components. I can only report that mods to downstream components were IMO technically sound and moved the system closer to neutrali... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Incidently, in forums & industry market-speak the notion of "voicing" as representing the pure expression of a designer's original intent is probably as misapplied as "neutrality" to forgive all sorts of shortcomings. | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool, all good points. Regarding whether "convergence" on some ideal of neutrality or transparency is possible or even desireable, the question should not be what "most" audio systems fail to do(whether through shortcomings in dynamics or oth... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Learsfool, there is a remote possibility that the gradual convergence between modded analog & digital sources occurred by coincidence or was guided by a common bias operating separately through two qualitatively different mod processes. Howeve... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Bryon, so much of this is about convergence. Interesting speculation that as we move up the food chain of components, instead of arriving at a convergence of opinion, distinctions continue regarding nuances. This is understandable, as once the wor... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? It would be complicated for non-audiophiles to judge neutrality or any other metric of high quality playback. My wife does well in this regard despite a disinterest in audio, because her ears have been educated through long exposure to the “second... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Phaser, thanks for mentioning that Bill Evans. I have it in mono on ABC/Riverside and stereo on Japanese Victor/Riverside. This morning they both sounded quite vivid on lowly Empire 888E. BTW I just substituted a brass pedestal for delrin on my li... | |
| Best Tributes, Covers, Dedications Merle Haggard tribute "Tulare Dust"(1994). Respectful unadorned covers by Dwight Yoakam, Iris Dement, Joe Ely, John Doe, Marshall Crenshaw, Lucinda Williams. | |
| Has anyone heard the new OPPO BDP-83SE Having heard the superb performance of the RAM-modified Oppo at RMAF-- which IMO approaches top Wadia, Esoteric, EMM, etc.-- and knowing that the parts that go into the mod cost several times MSRP of the Oppo, the issue of Oppo factory warranty is... | |
| Best Rock Albums in 2009, so far Marillion "Less is More." Stripped & mostly unplugged rearrangements and rerecordings of songs from late '80s through early '00s Marillion albums. Mature, sauve, unexpectedly jazz-inflected reunion of a band that never got the recognition it d... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? "When you remove a bit of system distortion, different things sound more different because a common element has been removed from everything you hear."Exactly my experience through hundreds of internal modifications to components. I'm in the camp ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? "the strange idea of "neutral"Neutrality is about balance-- the notion of nothing more and nothing less, nothing added and nothing substracted. In this sense neutrality is more descriptive and useful than transparency."all components are inaccurat... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? "My original post was intended... to operationalize the term 'neutral.'""Neutrality by definition is 'without difference'.""...by comparison to other systems using the same source material." (Emphasize "same source")Apart from the usual judgments ... |