fsonicsmith
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| Stereophile review of the $30,000 tekton speakers In my view Tekton selling a $16,000 Moab with BE drivers and a $30,000 PA system is similar to when Morrow was featuring $12,000 interconnects prominently on the front page of the A-gon market page-an absurd desire to build prestige based upon an ... | |
| Mint Protractor. A Pretty Nice Alignment Tool I ordered two Mints from Yip way back in the day when I was using VPI decks. As Raul has noted, P-S was a critical measurement for Yip. He would not provide his custom protractor without it. He also needed to know the ID of the tonearm. Now that ... | |
| Stereophile review of the $30,000 tekton speakers But hey, the shipping is free! | |
| Garrard 301 - Project What I have been trying to say, particularly with my Harbeth speaker enclosure analogy, is that in my very humble opinion trying to make a 301 sound "airy, transparent, neutral, fast" et al is trying to turn the 301 into something that it is not. ... | |
| Garrard 301 - Project I have 3 TT s in PA slate and am very pleased with performance but I did not sample a wide variety of materials so would not claim slate is absolutely the best. So what do you prefer, fsonic? Hi Lewm. I would love to claim that I have tried a s... | |
| Garrard 301 - Project Slate is not optimum. Sorry but just true. Agree that having a concrete slab floor is preferable to being over a basement with floor joists. But most of us don't get to design our houses and listening rooms (though in my case I did) and many of ... | |
| Garrard 301 - Project Thanks for the mention lalitk. As the photos in my profile show, I favor a large plinth, as large in all three dimensions as your rack can accommodate. Forgetting about any thought process that a massive plinth absorbs vibration, the real estate ... | |
| Anyone tried Devore o/93 with Sugden a21 As I type I am listening to my O/93's with an ARC Ref 150SE (160 beautiful tube watts) and they sound mesmerizing. It is emphatically false that you need to worry about having too much power for a given loudspeaker so long as gain is correct. That... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms Why do so many cartridge manufacturers and after market modders (e.g. Zu) offer different cartridge shells? If certain pundits in this thread were correct that a tonearm can only be neutral or degrade the sound than what is happening when the wood... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms @mijostyn : " A tonearm can not improve sound quality. it can only degrade it. " I already posted something similar not only with tonearms but with other audio items and obviously that I'm in agree totally with you.Well the best that... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms Mijo, you are very consistent in maintaining that a tonearm should have no sound of its own, but what does that mean? Since we can’t know how a TA sounds without a cartridge. And different TAs with different cartridges can sound very different. ... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms The SAT tonearm does not qualify. it is nothing more than a substitute for a "mighty sword" (Randy Newman). A tonearm should have no sound of it's own. What are you talking about-and in what respect is the SAT arm compromised? You write like a... | |
| Best investment; cartridge or line stage? The reason is simple: the tonearm's ability to properly track the cartridge far outweighs what cartridge you have. The better the arm is at this, the less differences you'll hear between cartridges assuming they are set up properly. So absolute... | |
| how to use LDA quartz regenerator??? help Are there no adjustments that affect voltage or current output from the LDA? If so, have you fiddled with them? http://www.turntablepsu.com/lda.html | |
| how to use LDA quartz regenerator??? help Well OP, was it the back toggle speed lock engaged? If that does not solve the problem, plug the 401 directly into the wall and check for speed. Perhaps your motor needs a rebuild? How are you monitoring the speed? The strobe markings on the 401... |