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| Vandersteen 7 at Audio Connection I agree there is something about V7s that just gets out of the way of the music and passeth understanding. I've heard them at three shows with Aesthetix and ARC. I believe Richard V. mentioned in a magazine that when he first heard the new balsa l... | |
| Silver wiring for interconnects Hi Clabe, I see Parts Connexion lists Neotech 20awg silver OCC5N with teflon jacket(blue) hook-up wire. Is this what you used, or is the bare silver conductor available without the teflon jacket? If so, who sells it? | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Tom, there is no consensus of opinion among the several respected OEM designers that I have spoken with about this. One likes a single cap selected to a strict tolerance, another likes to parallel caps of roughly equal value but hand-selected to m... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Halcro, Unfortunately I have not yet found time to put a switch on my phono stage to vary capacitance. Perhaps increasing capacitance will alternatively address the tracking or resonance problem that Sonus has at lower resistive loads. In another ... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil If a small cap is necessary to pad up a base cap to precise value in crossover, consider that MR is newly in production in small values .1uf-.68uf. This would allow the "bypass" experiment to be made using like capacitors. DaveClarityCap N. Americ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Halcro, To your post of 11-16 regarding Sonus Blue Gold, what loading did you use? This very high-compliance cartridge has been an interesting experiment. Lots of potential but a challenge to set up correctly-- requiring loading of 120-150K t... | |
| Best Rock Album in 2010 Sorry, meant to say DMM vinyl. | |
| Best Rock Album in 2010 "John Cale & Band Live" MIG/WDR limited edition DDM vinyl of Rockpalast concert recorded 1984 at 3AM in Essen Germany. Fierce, corruscating performance that's much better than the mostly bland commercial release that year of "Cale Comes Alive." | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul, thanks for back-tracking to Sonus BG. I similarly conclude that BG does not deliver the LF grip and dynamics of AT20SS, but I wonder if AT may be overstated in that regard. Even if a bit pale, BG is unsurpassed so far on my rig in communi... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea "Once all demands are identified the design will determine itself...it is the approach of an engineer."Dertonarm, I don't think so. If it does then you should name your tonearm Athena-- born directly from the forehead of Zeus. Since an LP is far r... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea Atmasphere, I had in mind a short tangential headshell that instead of pivoting vertically to navigate warps, would rise and fall in parallel with the record surface via some sort of servo mechanism, possibly guided by a laser to measure the fluct... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea Dertonarm,"I teach you the overman." Thus Spoke ZarathustraPerhaps the translation is weak or I took this too literally. In any event, if I am short on criteria for the ideal tonearm, it would be enlightening as a thought experiment to have some o... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea Dertonarm, were the ubermensch tonearm to emerge from its cave like Zarathustra or reveal itself as the Golden Bowl of Manna, it must have zero length and track without a pivot point, have variable mass and damping separately selectable in both ho... | |
| Best Rock Album in 2010 The last few Robyn Hitchcock with The Venus 3 have been good, but "Propeller Time" is special. Less cuteness and more like channeling the spidery trippy spirit of Syd Barrett. Assisted by John Paul Jones, Nick Lowe, Johnny Marr, and some cool mell... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea Asa, I was not saying that trans-cognitive knowledge stems from a failure of knowledge. Rather, in literary terms at least, there is merely a caution that any attempt to rationalize full absorption of the Other contains inevitably parasite potenti... |