folkfreak
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| One Only Please- Your Favorite Track from which album and Artist please Here’s a real system resolution test 😏”Eddie My Love”The Chordettes S/TTrack A2Cadence CLP-3001, 1957In glorious mono, but can your system resolve each vocal line and layer in the backing in scale and proportion? It’s not as easy as you think | |
| Rega Ania Cantilever Bent? OK, having seen the picture that seems to be within acceptable tolerances for an off center cantilever. of course whatever knocked the cantilever may have offset the coils to a greater degree but that seems unlikelyAre you sure you don't have an a... | |
| Rega Ania Cantilever Bent? As a rule misalignment of the cantilever (i.e. any deviation from straight front and back) is a problem. A minor (i.e. less than 5 degrees from center) deviation is perhaps OK but anything beyond that is a definite problem, and even a minor deviat... | |
| Rosanne Cash "She Remembers Everything" LP @bdp24 she's at Rev Hall on December 8th, not my favorite venue (too many times they turn it up too loud) but can work well | |
| Rosanne Cash "She Remembers Everything" LP I’ve got the all in boxed set coming up as a Xmas present I hope 😁 but before then I’ll be catching her live next month here in Portland. Haven’t seen her before so looking forward to that. But great to hear that the latest keeps up the high stand... | |
| A New Ground -- Benefits of introducing the Synergistic Research Active Ground Block SE That’s an interesting observation. It actually jibes with my experience with the same cable. I purchased that model recently intending to use it on the power supply for my Herzan isolation table but I found it sucked the life right out of the syst... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... anyone who is losing big $$ on a whim like this, probably won’t be continuing to do that for too long, before the house gets foreclosed on...IMHO.I suspect no one purchasing kilo buck hi fi is in any risk of foreclosure. Now if on the other hand p... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @daveyf i really don’t understand what your problem is. At this level one would presume you have a good understanding of a) the house sound of different cartridge vendors and b) your own preferences and c) the technical compatibility of your arm. ... | |
| Upgrade SACD/CD player from DCS Puccini to better DCS, Esoteric or EMM Labs? Here’s the issue with multi box DCS systems - you need to spend a lot on accessories (Cables, footers, etc) to have them sing. Take a look at my system description to see what I mean. You can easily spend close to the cost of the base stack to opt... | |
| Suggestions for Solo Violin Recordings Which made me think of the Biber Rosary sonatas especially the Rachel Podger version (another artist that cannnot put a foot wrong)https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/biber-rosary-sonatas-–-podger | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? @madavid0 ahh the tyranny of numbers. Lets for for the sake of argument say that the Kairos is 10% better than a generic arm does that make it bad value?What if I then posit that the only way of achieving that 10% is by spending on a better arm li... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? @lewm SAT have not taken any price increases, these are just the prices for the second generation designshttps://www.analogplanet.com/content/sat-swedish-analog-technologies-begins-delivering-four-new-pick...Personally id rather like that Telos if... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? @vair68robert you may need to expand your range of tonearms values. Top of the range SATs are currently $53K for the 12” and a Durand Telos with sapphire base is $75K so the top end of the market is well served 😉 | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? @sfischer1 while I agree with you on economics (i.e. that there is not nor should there be any relationship between materials costs and end product price, provided the manufacturer can make a product you can price to what the market can bear) but ... | |
| Suggestions for Solo Violin Recordings And one other I've really enjoyed recently -- Barotsz Woroch's survey of some recent solo violin repertoire (with accompaniment on some of the pieces) -- challenging but worth your time and a test of how resolving your system ishttps://www.theguar... |