fsonicsmith
Responses from fsonicsmith
| The worst sentence in audio writing Just not true. I wish it were though. It would invalidate about 99.7% of Mikey Fremer's audio writing. As an aside, does anyone want to participate in a one year over and under and to when Mikey will finally shut up about his new electrical scheme... | |
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time Say what you will about the basic tenets of the mental construct "PRAT", unlike the adjective "musical" at least it is an ethos. | |
| 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 ... |