dgarretson
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| Thiel Owners Thanks for mentioning this, Jafant. In addition to supplying Thiel with ClarityCaps for the 2.4SE model, just prior to the sale of the company we were working with Thiel on an upgrade to the CS3.7 crossover. I’d be pleased to offer thoughts to any... | |
| The Palladian-A step beyond I’ll confess to playing Cohen’s You Want It Darker LP during the Xmas afternoon celebration. It suited my holiday mood and, reflecting upon the profundity of his poetry, may not have been as incongruous to the occasion as one might think. Unfortun... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hello Lew,The Grace F9 owner’s manual states "operating conditions" of 100K loading and 80pF capacitance. Whether these conditions are optimal or not I cannot say. It’s been awhile since I ran the cartridge on my ARC MM phono stage at 100K loading... | |
| Wilson Audio Haters That’s the spirit @bo1972-- a takedown of Tannoy super tweeters and an Esoteric K-01X with a rubidium clock and custom Paul Hynes power supply that you cannot have heard in combination, not to mention the silliness of housing that stack in a Stars... | |
| Wilson Audio Haters I’m afraid that Tru-Fi just failed the Turing test. | |
| Wilson Audio Haters +++1 Doug. All we need is yet one more acronym with an unsupported claim to an audio revolution. | |
| Wilson Audio Haters @bo1972 I'm not ready to embrace the 2D/3D distinction as a principal taxonomic category for high end audio. Is 3D inclusive of other key attributes? What other properties are necessary or sufficient within 3D sound? Surely more than 1% of brands... | |
| Wilson Audio Haters This idea of 2D vs. 3D two-channel listening has baffled me through years of system improvements and visits to shows. 3D is easy to rationalize for an omnidirectional speaker. But with a forward-firing speaker, the 3D effect seems to come from rep... | |
| Repair a Sony SCD 777ES? Hi Jafant, I moth-balled my heavily modified SCD-1 for an Esoteric K01X with Rubidium clock. There is not a huge difference in performance, but only after modifying the Sony to the point that it became unrecognizable as such. | |
| The Palladian-A step beyond Halcro, I did not and thus can only report without conjecture as to the tonearm/cartridge synergy or lack thereof. However, I do own an LPM320STR-- which is a damn fine cartridge. | |
| What's been playing on your turntable and what turntable is it ? Marillion FEAR(F**k Everyone And Run) into Soundsmith OCL-retipped Lyra Helikon> SME 3012R> Luxman PD444. Probably Marillion's best(and most cleverly titled) album since Brave. My favorite working prog rock band. | |
| The Palladian-A step beyond Hello Halcro & Chris,FWIW a friend had good results with a London Decca Reference on his Terminator linear tonearm, then tasted an Acutex LPM320STR and sold the Decca. | |
| Repair a Sony SCD 777ES? Steve, My files from the mid-2000s indicate that the sled motor is a Mabuchi RF-300CH 11400. | |
| Tonearm for Luxman PD 441 After removal the locking armboard you will see that the sliding assembly separates into two pieces: a locking base common to all Luxman 441/445 armboards, and a screw-attached top plate with holes of varying diameter to receive various tonearms. ... | |
| Repair a Sony SCD 777ES? @stevebraxton Instead of tugging on it, try worrying it out with a rocking motion, or maybe working a jewelers screwdriver into the seam of the header. Don’t tug at the ribbon itself. Honestly it’s been a long time since I did this. |