frogman
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| Am I an Audiophile, a music lover-or both? Many good comments. There are as many different answers to your question as there are different personalities. In other words, every listener has a different experience when listening to music. Some wear the audiophile hat some of the time and ... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Great analogy!Ordered two long I-beams yesterday; single and double spring versions. What a nice man Bruce T is! You may recall from early in the thread my description of my diy balsa wood version of a long I-beam. Worked well, but always had ... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners **** It’s started raining here and I am collecting leaves. Don’t want to do this anymore :^( ****Mulch, mulch, mulch, Chris! Good for the lawn, too. Used to collect a couple of acres' worth of leaves off of our lawn at our upstate property. The lo... | |
| What was the first system you heard that made you think the high end made sense 1976. Had saved enough summer job money to buy my first "stereo": Panasonic "Thrusters" system. After returning it for exchange three (!) times because of unstable pitch from the turntable and which the salesman could not hear, the poor guy sai... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, Perhaps it IS a linguistic or semantics problem why we don't seem to be connecting on this issue. Anyway, I have too much respect and admiration for your passion about audio to risk our back and forth getting contentious; and, with my... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,Who was it that said "The more things change, the more they stay the same"?I wasn't going to respond any further on our analog/digital debate since I felt the subject was getting a little tired, I felt I had said just about all I had to ... | |
| Joseph Grado Signature tonearm Owned that arm years ago. Nice tonearm. IMO, the mid to upper end of that price range is about right. I base this on my opinion that is was a good arm, but not quite competitive with other arms of that period like the Syrinx and Alphason which are... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? **** if I attend enough live performances I can fix in my sonic memory the tones, colorations, dynamic abilities, and details of say a trumpet. Listening to trumpet recordings at home may not be an exact replication but I can judge how close I've... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,I always hesitate to approach discussions/debates such as this from this vantage point for reasons that may be important only to me; but here goes...and for whatever it may be worth to anyone: I, like the great majority of my "friends" (... | |
| What is the ideal volume setting? Thanks for the explanation; I understand. I suppose it would be nice if levels were standardized on discs, but.....Do you always sit at the same distance from orchestras when in concert halls? Be careful what you wish for. Classical recordings ... | |
| What is the ideal volume setting? I'm not sure I understand what the problem is. As has been pointed out well recorded Classical music can have a very wide dynamic range; a good thing. Live, the range is even wider. Is the problem for you that you have to set the volume such th... | |
| Jazz for aficionados https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k_UE7EBWCq8https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=evlgtJ1K6Skhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3dPB0IyVjd0 | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,We seem to be going around in circles. I simply don't agree with your premise. Both analog and digital have their respective strengths and their respective weaknesses. For me, digital's weaknesses do more harm to the music than analog... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Beautiful, Alex. May I ask where that is? | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? pryso, I don’t disagree about the camera work. You know, I don’t even pay attention to the video; and didn’t even look at it when I first found it on the Tube. Fact is, and to add insult to injury, if you look closely he isn’t even playing in that... |