dgarretson
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| Tannoy Westminster Royal HE It's a very small data point, but about five years back I took some 2A3 monoblocks into a dealer showroom to qualify the Churchills for SET amplification. They sounded anemic--at least on 3W. In addition to the lack of dynamics in this less-than-o... | |
| Best short-lived band? Rain Tree CrowAcetoneMedicine | |
| Capacitors for BAT VK-60 I recently replaced the stock Belden intrachassis ICs that connect XLR inputs to the PCB in the VK75SE. I substituted 2' of Audio Consulting 24awg silver wire in cotton sleeves in a three-twist, with a 1" band of ERS cloth glued around both ends. ... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Pauly,The flywheel effect of the platter on that cutting lathe would be negligible compared to the 75kg/cm torque generated by the motor. From pictures on the net it's evident that a really decent cutting lathe like the Neumann has a much stronger... | |
| Your 5 Fav Rock Concerts And how could I forget:--Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Review, New Haven, CT; 1975 | |
| Your 5 Fav Rock Concerts Those are some very good ones.-Steppenwolf, Princeton, NJ; 1969-The Who, Saratoga Springs, NY; July, 1970-Miles Davis, Princeton, NJ; 1972-The Kinks, Waterbury, CT; 1974-Roxy Music, Radio City Music Hall, NYC; 2003 | |
| How to remove a 'press fit' steel ball bearing? In automotive applications it usually takes some serious heat from an oxycetelene torch to release frozen studs and pressed fittings-- certainly more than butane or map gas. If the spindle is all metal you might get away with it.The noninverted VP... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option "A given motor speed and torque in the rim drive system may have a range of platter weight that works best with that given motor. Then again, it could be testament to how well these heavier platters with mylar belts actually work."I'd like to hear... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Dan_ed,Somewhere in this thread it's reported that in testing, Verus rim drive produced the greatest improvement in combination with the lightest Teres platter. It would seem that with rim drive (as with idler drive), high platter mass might actua... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Jean,I think I understand your comparison of idler drive to belt drive, but I'm lost in your comparison of idler to Verus rim drive.I would think the comparison of rim drive to idler drive boils down to the relative compliance of the interface bet... | |
| Merlin Fan's-What VSM is best bang for buck???? Can't understand from your writing if near-field listening is or is not desireable for you. In any case, the VSM wants at least 9' to the listening position. | |
| Review: Machina dynamica Brilliant Pebbles Tweak "a bad spend"-- now that describes a very guilty pleasure. | |
| Is the RAM Modified Esound E5 the REAL THING? It's impossible to generalize about the effect of replacing clocks across disparate players. | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? There was Behold amplification with the Memory Player & the Scaenas at HE2007. Unfortunately I didn't understand at that time that the Memory Player was a transport only. | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? At HE2007 the Memory Player in combination with the Scaena arrays had the rare combination of treble sweetness with fine detail & extension, and dynamic authority on top of dead-calm relaxation. Less rolled off than Zanden, and less agressive ... |