eldartford
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| Which Beethoven's symphony do you like the best? As the saying goes..."If I said that I was misquoted".No, I am not a conductor..so what? I do know a little about music having, as an amateur, played violin in an orchestra. Yes, I do enjoy Beethoven's symphonies, but given a choice between two co... | |
| What bugs you most about sound quality? Compression, and peak-limiting (which are not quite the same) are a necessary evil in recording. If they were not used the recording would need to be made at such a low level that quiet passages would be noisy and lack resolution.There are times, ... | |
| Which Beethoven's symphony do you like the best? What a nest of hornets I stirred up by disliking the 9th!No, I can't write a symphony, but I can do many other things that Beethoven couldn't. It would be more appropriate to compare Beethoven to Bach or Mozart.No wonder Wagner liked the 9th. It i... | |
| Dealing with an unstable, vibrating wood floor... A Sony Biotracer (servo controlled arm) might handle your vibration problem. Several hundred dollars. Check E-Bay.For several thousand dollars there are active vibration isolation tables (used in industrial labs) that would solve your problem. The... | |
| Recomendation for speakers BEST for Piano? Ritteri..Why don't you read other people's comments before sounding off? Perhaps you did, and just cannot understand them. For example: the B&W 550 are not claimed to be great speakers, just damn good at violins. The reason I mention this is b... | |
| Recomendation for speakers BEST for Piano? Ritteri...Ok, if you don't like my theory about the titanium tweeter in the little B&W 550 speakers, give me another theory of why these little boxes reproduce solo violin better than most megabuck systems, and (by the way) my own MG1.6. (And ... | |
| DC v AC Both AC and DC motors are subject to torque variation, which may cause periodic or continious speed error.The ideal "motor" would be a heavy weight applying torque to a pulley (like a grandfather clock). Wind it up before each record. Speed contro... | |
| Recomendation for speakers BEST for Piano? Ritteri...It's a bit hard to follow your logic. Your analogy to a violin, where the wood body is what makes the sound, is one that I might use to explain the function of the sound board in a piano.Your preference for cone drivers in boxes is just ... | |
| Which Beethoven's symphony do you like the best? A_e_watkins..IMHO means In My Humble Opinion. The question asks for opinions, and that's mine.And yes, Quadophile, Beethoven wrote some really good stuff, but I think that his Symphonies are overrated. | |
| Differences in SACD channels Good point by Sogood51. You do need to select the stereo mode if you want to play a multichannel disc that way. If you don't do this you may be listening to only two of the five signals. Although the rear channels might be considered a minor loss ... | |
| Carver ZR 1600 drives low impedance Unsound...What the Carver does may not apply to other digital amps. Remember that the Carver is a ProSound amp, and those guys often place unholy loads on their amps. The Carver is designed to live in that environment.I had heard the thing about d... | |
| Which Beethoven's symphony do you like the best? The fifth is OK. The others are so-so. The ninth proves how deaf he was (IMHO).On the other hand, Mozart never wrote anything that isn't wonderful. | |
| Advise requested on cleaning the laser in a CDP Elizabeth is right. Keep your grubby hands off the laser. The laser is on something like an arm which is servo-controlled and very delicate. Also the laser shines through a miniature lens system that is continuously adjusted to maintain focus on t... | |
| Best SACD for under $1200 I am happy with my Denon 2900, and a mod available for about $900 can replace the analog circuitry for audio quality described as second to none.It is a universal player. One practical advantage of a universal player, which I never thought of befo... | |
| Differences in SACD channels Don't draw conclusions from one particular disc. I do not know any reason why the stereo area of a multichannel SACD should be inferior. (The CD layer of a hybrid is another matter). Given that I have multichannel capability, the only reason for m... |