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| Lucinda Williams live This is also perhaps the best ever Don Was production. | |
| Lucinda Williams live After an evening alternating between the LP and CD versions of Blessed, it's clear that this is Lucinda at the top and an extraordinary album by any measure. | |
| does it logical to invest on expensive transport? Lokie, I have similar sentiments. Recent improvements in computer audio and availability of hi-res internet files are getting me interested. However after years of accumulating CDs and making refinements to a traditional RBCD front end, the questi... | |
| Princeton Record Exchange As far as PreX is concerned, if you want to scuba dive into the $1 bins do visit during the less crowded weekdays. On Saturdays there is cigarette and bong breath and plumber's crack afoot. | |
| Velodyne DD Plus: New King of the Jungle? Sonicray, If you get a chance it would be helpful to know the lowest programmable roll-off frequency. In later iterations of DD-15 series it was 40hz-- too high for some systems. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Timeltel, Now that's interesting. Could you suggest what's necessary for a phono stage to accommodate those higher output MM? Mine is 48db gain with 300-1500mV headroom, which should not be untypical. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul, Thanks for the reminder. I have a new wand made of ultra-lite balsa wood carbon fiber composite with several adjustable brass weights at each end to vary effective vertical mass. I'm going to remount AT20SS to this wand and see what results. | |
| When have A/B comparisons led you astray? My latest CDP modification includes an A/B switch that enables on-the-fly comparison of RBCD processed through a 13-year old DAC chip to RBCD processed through the latest 32-bit ESS9018 Sabre chip. The difference is meaningful but much subtler tha... | |
| Sibilance issues with vinyl rig Just went through this issue in another thread with VPI JMW-9. You need to try weighting the headshell with a 5gm nickel applied with double-sided padded tape. That will increase the inertial mass of the arm to better control the cartridge. It sho... | |
| Sonist At T.H.E Show in Vegas this year Sonist sounded great with DeHavilland-- a big step up from Randy's prior exhibit with Glow. | |
| How to measure tonearm effective mass Mark, My tonearm has the front and rear counterweights riding on separate threaded rods going into the pivot and independent of the arm tube. Thus adjustment of counterweights does not affect the secondary resonance characteristic associated with ... | |
| How to measure tonearm effective mass Lew, All I can contribute on this subject is the result of modifying a linear arm to allow micro adjustments to effective vertical mass across a wide range of adjustment. This set-up separates observations related to changing effective mass from o... | |
| Magnepan 3.7 Agree with Weseixes that the smaller Maggies are in the sweet spot of the product line. At CES 1.7s sounded remarkably good with Rogue electronics. 3.7s with Bryston at T.H.E. Show were relatively congested and dull. I lean toward blaming the 3.7s... | |
| Kleos Sibilance Agree with above comments that you should break it in longer before judgment. It is also worth checking to see if a change in effective mass affects the sibilance. Try weighting the headshell with a 5gm nickel & rebalancing the counterweight. | |
| The Placement of Tonearm Counterweights "Decoupled" was perhaps misleading. The idea is to vary vertical effective mass using a system other than the traditional relationship between arm wand length & mass. Freed from considerations of mass, the wand can then be optimized solely for... |