frogman
Responses from frogman
| Apples and oranges Accepting the fact that “intelligently” is also a relative thing, can you be more specific? What were the things that you felt you could not discuss with those that had more advanced systems? I guess my feeling is that your concern is simply par... | |
| Apples and oranges rv, I understand what you are saying. However, with the possible exception of very low bass and its room related issues, I don’t think there are any aspects or parameters of sound reproduction that cannot be talked about intelligently whether one... | |
| Apples and oranges I have heard “advanced” systems that cause me to want to run out of the room. The amount of money some “advanced” audiophiles spend on systems that, to me, sound nothing like the real thing boggles my mind. On the other hand, I have heard some “ru... | |
| Does the Eminent Technology 2.5 arm work well with the Transcriptors Reference turntable? I’ve invited Bruce Thigpen to offer his thoughts here. I doubt he will as my experience has been that he doesn’t like to participate in audio forums; but herhaps he will. Here’s hoping ….. | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Congratulations on your purchase, dentdog Fantastic tonearm! And welcome to the thread. With the exception of an occasional and thankfully rare bit of noise (like an annoying click or pop from a favorite lp) it is one of the most civilized and fri... | |
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| Does the Eminent Technology 2.5 arm work well with the Transcriptors Reference turntable? Another vote in favor of the ET2 and I agree with the positive comments made so far. Fantastic arm. I’ve owned Alphason MCS, Syrinx PU3, Grado, Premier MMT, SME V and a couple others and the ET2 (which I still use) is sonically superior to all of... | |
| Balance control? I experience the same issue on some of my recordings. Some simply don’t have a solid and stable center image; very frustrating. At this point I would take some of those recordings to your friends’ and see if the same thing happens on their syste... | |
| Any fans of Ken Peplowski here? | |
| Any fans of Ken Peplowski here? Monster player. A traditionalist; more to the “Swing” side of things and probably why he is not better known. I agree with your description. Glad that you have discovered him. The Deerhead Inn is a Jazz institution. The Delaware Water Gap was ho... | |
| Balance control? I feel your “pain”; I too am very sensitive to channel balance issues and one can really obsess over it. The first obvious question which you haven’t answered is have you always had this issue, or did you make an equipment change, including cablin... | |
| Interconnects - better before preamp or after preamp? “upstream” should read “downstream” 🤔 | |
| Interconnects - better before preamp or after preamp? noromance +3. Basic rule of system building that will will give you better results than most other approaches; many which simply keep us chasing our sonic tails. Every component, including cabling will degrade the signal to some degree. NO compo... | |
| Is symphonic music kind of like Phil Spector got hold of chamber music? Hey, OP, how about some follow up? Always appropriate. Personally, it always feels manipulative when someone posts something of at least some controversy or possible misunderstanding and then disappears, Btw, re **** I’m not so sure about th... | |
| Is symphonic music kind of like Phil Spector got hold of chamber music? I think some miss the point. Phil Spector took the genre R&R and (in his own words) “augmented” the more traditional size of ensemble used in R&R and through the use of larger ensembles and the exploitation of studio techniques created a s... |