holmz
Responses from holmz
| TT speed @lewm I agree it is somewhat meaningless in term of the platter speed and W&F levels… But ignore the protractor and just draw a radial spoke on the paper. And there too… as the stylus moves inwards walk in “platter rotation space”… (well all ... | |
| Totally overwhelmed (speakers under $5k) Whoever recommended ASR... facepalm. Please stay FAR FAR away from that site. It is horrible. How so? @smodtactical There are many brands with use research in their name, which implies at least the possibility of science. ARC, QR, SR, GR and... | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... Well I answered your question truthfully @rauliruegas and I have no practical way to subjectively listen to every amp, nor to go through every subjective review. So I go somewhat by others using similar speakers have found to work, as well as us... | |
| DIY TT @rauliruegas I have an old Sota Saffire TT with an SAEC WE0317 arm. Current MI cartridge is a Garrott Bros p77i, which replaces a worn out Blue Point Special… They are sort of like the SoundSmith in that they are MI. I just picked up a secondhan... | |
| TT speed Personally I would not use an FFT for fine measurements. A better method would be shift the 1kHz down to DC and then plot the phase as a function of time. The width of the FFT bins will mate it appear like it is one frequency, but it will be a c... | |
| Mogami - Quad 12 ga. in the house! I recently (the past month+) attempted to purchase Canare 411S from Performance Audio and their "purchase" function did not work (for me) on their website. I sent them an email regarding such, but did not receive a reply. I then purchased the s... | |
| TT speed You're arguing that tangency affects pitch? If so, that violates the Fourier Transform. That's not possible and, as I mentioned, also easily disproved with a test record. I would rather use the term orthogonal or radial over “tangency”. The st... | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... Dear @holmz : What you and other technical oriented gentlemans posted here means that if we take the Sansui, the Halcro, the Benchmark and Devialet amps and we listen to all in the same system and even that those four amps are way different whole... | |
| DIY TT Thanks @pindac I guess I have a couple of questions: Is it worthwhile to have a 12” and a 9:” arm? For instance, I have only a single MONO LP, and will not be using a mono cartridge. I’ve been looking at a few 12” arms, none of which will fit... | |
| TT speed @cleeds the error would need to be less than the W&F “noise”, and my stab at the error would be about 0.11 Hz at 1 lHz. So it is likely to be more of an intellectual oddity than a severe problem. Mathematically though. I believe that a linea... | |
| DIY TT Thanks @oldhvymec @pindac I am tracking now. And look forwards to your efforts. The lead platter is interesting. A bit more costly and slightly (maybe) technically better would be tungsten inserts in some other metal or plastic. (Of course one c... | |
| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality @piaudiol So I guess the inclusion of the video is implicitly meant to convey that your gear was not measurable as different, and could only be heard as different? | |
| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality You can, use a sensitive multimeter (4-1/2 digit) for an absolute value that can be converted to dB, or a good, sensitive audio measurement system like REW to listen to the speaker in a close-miked manner... usually at the tweeter since this is ... | |
| TT speed What? To be clear, I am questioning what seems to underlie Holmz’ thesis. Maybe I could understand if you (Holmz) were to define the "top"of the arc, just for starters. But I still cannot agree that pitch errors are caused by or related to the po... | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... @rauliruegas if you say that they are all sounding different with the same speakers, then I’ll defer to you… as I have not heard them. |