frogman
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| Are there any other EAR 834P modders lately? Zenbret, I too am a fan of this phono stage, and have had it modified by Mitch Singerman with outstanding results. Additional tweaks that I have found to be very effective are the use of BDR cones underneath, and use of the unit without it's cover... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Revel(l) models! Man you just sent me back 40 years. Loved them! And yes, the Acutex looks like something that would go underneath the wing of my F-100 Super Sabre model plane. Glad you are enjoying the cartridge. It will continue getting better f... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Slaw's idea of using an agreed upon recording as a reference for discussion is a great one. As such, I would like to get the ball rolling. While I am not very familiar with the musical tastes of the contributors to this thread, a popular and commo... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Chris, my Acutex 420 STR has continued to improve and after a couple of months of exclusive use it seems to be settling at a point where the only harshness heard is harshness that occurs naturally in music. I think this has got to be one of the gr... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Slaw, sorry I wasn't clear. My Hah! is definitely a good thing! It was an exclamation intended to be an acknowledgment of and agreement with your findings. It was also a bit of a pat on the back (my own back, and hopefully not too arrogant on my p... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners ****I recently purchased a double leaf spring I-beam, re-read the manual and my (2) counterweights are now at the end of the I-beam. To my surprise, performing the cart in the groove test now results in NO rumble. Hallelulia! **** -SlawHah! | |
| Help with plasma TV choice Thanks everyone. I appreciate the suggestions. A related question: The dimensions of the wall that the display will be mounted on is very narrow, and JUST wide enough for a 55" display. The L/R speakers and stands will be positioned just below the... | |
| SME V : what to expect ? I am not sure that making a determination about an arm's sound by comparing it to a different arm on a dramatically different style turntable table is fair. The SME V is a fine arm. It may be not be the best, but it has little of the false added b... | |
| Rabco SL-8E Tone Arm ****I wanted then to know everything about this 'wonder' and think that I dreamed about owning one more than about any girl that I can remember.**** - NandricOf course, that depends on how difficult it is to find the correct VTA for each. If you c... | |
| Help with plasma TV choice Thanks guys, very helpful comments; particularly re screen brightness and dealer bias. Learsfool, your impressions mirror mine exactly. The differences that I noted at the dealer were not subtle. To use an audio analogy, the Samsungs were like goo... | |
| Replacement for VPI TNT mark v Some good suggestions for tables, but they don't (especially the Oracle, and Rega) sound anything like the TNT with it's very full, and slightly dark sound. The Oracle, while really great sounding, is as different sounding as any table that I can ... | |
| Replacement for VPI TNT mark v That's going to be a tough one Dpower. A large part of the reason that the TNT has the tone that you want to replicate is the very fact that it is large and heavy, which gives it a certain resonance signature; that full, weighty, slightly dark sou... | |
| Moving coil with a bit less leading edge Some really excellent and insightful comments above. But, no one is trying to defend unrealistically bright and aggressive cartridges. Lew, they certainly do exist; way too many of them. I think that the point that Doug, Pete, myself and others ar... | |
| Moving coil with a bit less leading edge ****If your experience of live orchestral music is that leading edges are rounded or that the sound is other than *very* crisp and clear, you need to sit in acoustically better halls (or at least acoustically better seats). Come sit next to me in ... | |
| frequency range for instrument vs speaker One of the things that bothered me most about early digital recordings (actually, until very recently) was not the harshness, brightness or grain, it was the very obvious (to me) sense that there was a frequency extension ceiling above the music; ... |