eldartford
Responses from eldartford
| Is Spectron Audio "Dead or Alive"? Kclone...Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. They look good to me. Besides, they are located in the cellar, out of sight and out of fan noise hearing, but within a few feet of the speakers they drive.Nhtran...Sonics are also a matter of opinion,... | |
| Is Spectron Audio "Dead or Alive"? Too bad. I guess I did the right thing to buy three stereo CarverPro ZR1600 for less than half what one stereo Spectron would have cost. Perhaps my case is representative of Spectron's problem. They need to understand that the greatest advantage o... | |
| Cabling to FM Antenna Albertporter...I guess you missed the SHIELDED part of my 300 ohm twinlead suggestion. When I installed a big FM antenna decades ago 75 ohm coax was not used: 300 ohm twinlead was what everyone used. However, while I live in a fringe area I am clo... | |
| Cabling to FM Antenna If you use an antenna-mounted preamp the wire down to the tuner is not of great importance.Living in a fringe area, I found shielded 300 ohm twinlead to be the best (without using a preamp). I don't know if anyone sells shielded 300 ohm twinlead a... | |
| Spindle oil Herman...Your assumption that there is "cogging" really means that the control process exhibits overshoots. It is entirely possible to design a control process that does not overshoot at all.Regarding off center records...remember that the arm piv... | |
| Spindle oil Sean...But it doesn't. This servo system was not designed by amateurs. | |
| Spindle oil Herman..."Crab walking"? I'm not sure what you mean. The Sony PS X-800 arm actually does have a pivot. However, the arm angle is constantly measured, (Hall effect sensors) and the pivot point is moved as necessary to keep this angle tiny. The pivo... | |
| Oversampling/Increased dither: a lot of hype? IMHO, the sonic differences between various DACs stem from the analog filtering and amplification circuitry that follows the DAC. There are theoretical advantages to oversampling, perhaps not always realized because of inferior analog outputs. A l... | |
| 50hz deep enough? Tiny speaker can indeed reproduce very low frequencies: even 20 Hz. But the sound volume will be so low that you can't hear it unless you put your ear right up to the speaker. Hey...that's earphones.Bookshelf speakers are for small rooms, and low ... | |
| Spindle oil Herman...There are servos, and there are servos. The faults you cite can be avoided. The microprocessor controlled linear tracking arm on my Sony PS X-800 TT maintains tracking angle within 0.05 degree across the entire disc, even when the groove ... | |
| Audio's Most Enduring Products. Shure V15 Phono pickup. Decades after its introduction it is still near SOTA (at least for MM) and reasonably priced. | |
| 2 way or 3 way Speaker? Psychicanimal...Glad the Kenwoods are working well for you. Yep, the line cords are wimpy, but I messed around with a heavy duty cord on one of my amps, but it never sounded, or measured, any different from the stock amp. Maybe the power supply is... | |
| Break-in Components that include elastomer materials, speaker surrounds, and phono pickups can be expected to loosen up, and sound different after some use. Extended LF response is easily measured.When it comes to electronics, wire, equipment racks, I doub... | |
| 2 way or 3 way Speaker? Actually, advances in technology are what have made decent 2-way systems practical. Small (7-inch) woofers have been developed that will respond OK up to the point where a tweeter takes over. Using two of these little woofers produces OK bass. In ... | |
| Red Rose : quality drain? It is not unusual for quality to degrade over time, even (or perhaps particularly) for domestic products. The first units are built by the best engineers and technicians, who developed the product. Later units are put together "by hippies and gran... |