frogman
Responses from frogman
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time Congrats! Every type of component influences PRAT (if that is what one wants to call it) to one degree or another. We tend to be more comfortable describing issues of tonal and spatial distortion, but less so issues of rhythmic distortion. Sure... | |
| Detachable Head shell or Not? How would you describe, from a specific sonics standpoint, what your goal is? What about the sound that you are getting now are you not satisfied with and hope to improve? Thanks. | |
| Listening without interpretation...is it impossible? True. Many don’t. However, most musicians do care about audio sound; just not on the same level as most audiophiles. Even so, and I’ve made this point in the past, as a percentage of the population of musicians, far far more of them are audioph... | |
| Detachable Head shell or Not? I wish I had said that 😊 Btw, for me it has been a permanent arrangement since with the ET2 I have felt no need to do it internally. | |
| Listening without interpretation...is it impossible? Not sure that I agree with the notion that the way others describe what they hear influences MY perception of what I hear. Of course, if there is to be any kind of meaningful dialogue one has to try and interpret what someone else is trying to say... | |
| Detachable Head shell or Not? **** listen for several weeks on a regular basis to one setup in my own system where I know intimately every component in the pathway, and then to change from setup A to setup B and listen again for an extended period of time to B. Ideally, that w... | |
| Detachable Head shell or Not? I have shared my experience with and impressions of four different tonearm wires in (actually, with the exception of the VDH, “on” is more accurate) my Eminent Technology ET2 tangential tracking arm- the stock VDH silver clad copper, Cardas, Disco... | |
| Detachable Head shell or Not? Jafox, you missed my point entirely. | |
| Detachable Head shell or Not? Agree with Lew. Along the same lines as the fixed vs detachable headshell question, if the quality of the wire used to rewire in a continuous run is not at least equal to that of what the arm is presently wired with, as well as that of the cable c... | |
| Speakers vs. headphones Exactly! | |
| Speakers vs. headphones rv, no, those are not what I have. Mine are an older model Stax combo that I have had for several years. Stax has several different models of headphones and dedicated drivers, both ss and tubed. While they don’t make the exact same models as what ... | |
| Speakers vs. headphones rv, I don’t see why not. I use my IPad for headphone listening all the time. I take the signal from its analog mini headphone jack which goes to RCA’s plugged into the headphone amp. | |
| Speakers vs. headphones mahgister, no need to apologize and please don’t mute yourself. I am not arguing that one can not improve the acoustic properties of headphone shells, just as one can do so with a speaker. Nor am I arguing that headphones are “better” in any rega... | |
| Speakers vs. headphones I did not say that “shell geometry is akin to speaker enclosure+room”. I said, “akin to speaker enclosure geometry”; no +room. The +room is the next step in the process. Headphones don’t deal with +room. Headphones, in a strong sense, are simply s... | |
| Speakers vs. headphones I am in full agreement that acoustic control of a room is extremely important and you make some excellent additional points. However, I don’t agree that with headphones there is a parallel (“correspond”) as concerns the elimination of room effects... |