fsonicsmith
Responses from fsonicsmith
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time Without meaning to be snide, I believe finding PRAT unexpectedly is like finding the face of Jesus on a Lay's potato chip. | |
| Antique Sound Labs Joseph Lau is not “unfound”. I trade email with him from time to time and have purchased audio accessories from him at good prices. He is a joy-and a wealth of practical experience and knowledge. | |
| Transmission line speakers! I started designing Transmission line speakers in the mid '70's. They can be real good for the money. These days I use a ported cabinet design because you can get a better final performance curve. Though not a speaker designer, this meets with ... | |
| AMR DPP-777 DAC tubes It took me a while to figure it out with some trial and error and head scratching but the way you ended up trying is not it. It has been some time but IIRC I removed the sides and slid the circuit board out. Contact the importer for AMR/iFi and I ... | |
| van den Hul Colibri - Reconditioning John McGurk is first class. My Crimson XGW Strad went back for 200 hr. adjustment six months ago. The turn-around time was about two months. There is no reason to worry, particularly if you have your original box with the mounting hardware. It is ... | |
| Lyra Lambda Atlas/Etna I am listening to the Etna Lamda as we speak. Vastly hot-rodded 301 with Reed 3P 10.5 into a Steelhead to my ARC Ref 6 to an Ampsandsound Nautilus driving Spendor 7.2's via Auditorium 23. Chuck Prophet's "No Other Love" has just been re-released... | |
| Tonearm that surface mount without cutting a hole? Reed arms surface mount. | |
| Cartridge alignment, WallyTractor, SmartTractor, oscilloscope and Analogmaigk. I disagree that the Mint is easy to use. It is pretty difficult to pick up the parallax. I have two Mints and they will likely never see the light of day again. I also have the same protractor pictured above (btw, it is nice to see that this site ... | |
| Turntable versus tonearm versus cartridge: which is MOST important? I won't waste bandwidth by quoting Ralph's post of today at 3:35 pm but it echoes what I have been trying to say in this thread. Take a well designed no frills drive like a Gem Dandy or PureFidelity (among any number of other candidates), fit it w... | |
| Different R2R DACs I have reached a state of zen in which I feel no need or desire to extoll the virtues of my particular choice of R2R DAC. As CharlesDad noted-once again as he tends to hit the nail on head-it is a matter of implementation. System synergy and indiv... | |
| Thinking of buying a pair of Splendor D7.2... I am reviving this thread to comment upon this surprise-who would believe that the Spendor D7.2's could sound great with 8 watts? I had a feeling they would play loud enough for my smallish room but had no idea they would sound as good as they do.... | |
| Dealing with UK's Classic Turntable Company Well...a year ago I tried to buy a second PSU from Ray as I have two vintage decks. He sells a PSU that is compatible with both the Thorens TD124 motor and Garrard 301 as both are induction motors. I had purchased one from him before along with a ... | |
| Capital Audiofest, save thyself! Regarding the Philharmonicauudio towers I have no basis to comment upon their sound as I have not heard them but I can identify those boxes as being a variant of the ones used by Acoustic Zen and undoubtedly from the same Chinese factory. A dozen ... | |
| Capital Audiofest, save thyself! The polarized thoughts on Audio Note is fascinating (to me). The comment either in this thread or the other thread that the AN gear can not reproduce large scale such as orchestras is valid. But what AN does do well it does exceedingly well-it sou... | |
| Capital Audiofest, save thyself! @douglas_schroeder Mr. Schroeder, it is no easy task to tell when you are being serious and when you are not. Your history of posting is nothing to be proud of. Whether you are self-aware or not your subjective views are so far in the minority as ... |