johnnantais
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| Sell or keep my Turntable Podeschi, ditto on all counts! | |
| The High End and Glubglub Good one! | |
| The High End and Glubglub What you say is true about people identifying with movements, but we do not live in a vacuum, and movements surround us all the time and at every level: they are just so pervasive we do not see them. Science is a movement which started with Bacon,... | |
| The High End and Glubglub Let's bear in mind that while scepticism is healthy and necessary, the sceptic in the quotation above is an irrational and biased sceptic, and this is not healthy. In the '70s there was a "movement" for pure measurement, which placed such things a... | |
| The High End and Glubglub It certainly is a laughable mess, Plato, and add to that the new "Copy Protected" CDs, which sound absolutely horrible in my system. Rsbeck, I'm not sure precisely what you're saying, but just in case, I am not pushing single-ended amps, which I d... | |
| The High End and Glubglub Good response, Plato. Unfortunately, it doesn't go far enough, as designers are influenced by this type of irrational thinking as well. For at least a decade, single-ended amps were universally dismissed in America while the Japanese sat over ther... | |
| ET-2 on Linn LP12? The Linn LP12 being a classic 3-point suspension design, I believe the ET will have too much mass for the Linn to perform optimally, throwing the balance out of whack and leading to rocking. For this 'table, you need a tonearm which is less heavy,... | |
| Decca cartridge experiences I won't ask the cost of the Schroeder, but I am looking forward to your report on the sound of the Jubilee, which I assume will have less of the mistracking problems of the Deccas of yore. I once had a Super Gold which tracked everything perfectly... | |
| VTA: am I nutz? I propose we invent a device which will sit on our ass for us, which will be the showpiece of LOAD Audio. | |
| Decca cartridge experiences Holy Crap! | |
| Best speakers under $650 Athena Technologies AS-F2s, a full-range speaker for $600. Massively invoving Prat, killer bass, astounding dynamics, silky mid-range. And at 93db sensitivity, an excellent match for the cheaper ASL tube amps! | |
| VTA: am I nutz? I sense the beginnings of a company here...another excellent idea! | |
| VTA: am I nutz? You're welcome Newbee, check out the reviews, which make this object nigh-irresistable IMO. What I look for in a review is above all an account by the reviewer that he found it difficult to concentrate because of musical magic. Then I'm interested... | |
| VTA: am I nutz? Newbee, this is precisely the sort of thing the Sumiko Celebration was designed to address, with its elliptical stylus, and reportedly there is no shortfall of detail, at least at this price point, the implication in many of the reviews that it ra... | |
| VTA: am I nutz? Makes you wonder if these difficult stylus profiles aren't in fact a major design flaw: akin to speakers which work well only with one amplifier in the world & etc. Of course, if you are willing to put with it, but I'm too impatient to hear th... |