dover
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| Sound of transformers in preamps? Yep, it's a fetish. If you want colorama maximus, loss of transparency and destruction of musical timing and loss of coherency then by all means buy more stuff with transformers in it.Transformers = hysteresis distortion, bandwidth limitations, ph... | |
| Tannoy Westminister Royal SE Pre-amp Preference? Wylmars - I own have owned Tannoy's for 20 years. I use tube preamp with solid state power amp. I would suggest you try some alternatives out - do not assume anything. The Tannoys are very revealing of amplifiers, many highly regarded amps both tu... | |
| tonearm feedback It sounds like faulty wiring in the tonearm to me. Could be broken insulation, wires/armtube occcasionally touching when moved or moving, or could be dry joint. Coating the internal wiring with nail varnish can help if the insulation has broken. A... | |
| MIT Bi-Wire Speaker Cable Question MIT themselves recommend that you tie the high's and low's together at the speaker end when using a biwired MIT cable with non biwired speaker.. | |
| Lyra vs. Lyra I think most people who post in this forum haven't heard the stuff they post about, usually they've just read it somewhere.The other fallacy is "because I own it it must be good".I'm surprised no one here has suggested that perhaps an upgraded pow... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? The only homogeneous material in your list is slate. Bronze, brass, stainless steel, panzerholz & acrylic are all alloys or compounds that may be homogeneous or heterogeneous in their grain structure. If you assume for the purpose of this exer... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm You could replace your DD with a digital front end. Some of them have very low jitter now. Like DD's they are only a little bit out all of the time. | |
| Tannoy Westminster amp matching question. The Bakoon I have listened to quite frequently was the SCA7511 with Vishay attenuator. It has a grainless, reasonably transparent sound - very very smooth and easy to listen to. As stated I personally found it underpowered with the Tannoys, but it... | |
| Tannoy Westminster amp matching question. CharlesdadThanks for the response. I think we would agree on most points. Virtually all the posts were recommending low power tubes. If I'm buying an amp for a new pair of speakers, I would try to hear as much as possible of all types of amplifier... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lewm/Timeltel - You may be interested in reading up on the materials used in my Final Audio Parthenon VTT1. Both the platter and tonearm pod are bolted directly to a 40kg slab of superplastic zinc alloy ( SPZ ). The TT was designed to have a rigid... | |
| Tannoy Westminster amp matching question. Charles1dad - Again you still make false assumptions when you assert that "high powered solid state" may suit someones preferences. The underlying assumption you imply is that high powered solid state has a sound - well that's not true, its going ... | |
| Tannoy Westminster amp matching question. Borg7x9 - The GRF Professionals in a room similar in size to yours worked better across the room - this would be worth trying. | |
| Tannoy Westminster amp matching question. Charles1dad - you are completely wrong when you assume SS only has advantages in the bass. I have been listening to Tannoy GRF Professionals ( super rare backloaded horns similar in size and efficiency to the Westminsters ) for over 15 years with ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? The Guarnerie suggestion is pukka. Recent studies have indicated that the imperfections, variations in wood thickness, irregular holes, patched wood panels & tweaks to the original instrument are generating that unique sound. The headshell twe... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lewm - I'm not sure myself sometimes, but I'm glad you enjoy them. One part of my ancestry is "it must be correct" the other is more pragmatic "as long as we get there". I have heard the Grace sound quite good with a Garrott P77 but I dont think i... |