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| Reason for buying old/classic turntables 04rdking,That was not directed at you... I understand what you're saying.I just acquired a Garrard 301 and have been reading everything I can about them as I look into its mechanics. People repeatedly put these things up on a pedestal and tout the... | |
| Reason for buying old/classic turntables I think it's funny how some people think that the engineers of (for instance) Garrard 301s, 401s, and Lencos were greater at engineering turntables than anyone, and that the quality of those machines can't be touched. If those engineers knew so da... | |
| Reason for buying old/classic turntables It's really a question of whether the highest forms of modern technology are being applied to tt development at all. Perhaps the Monaco Grand Prix tt is an example that would tend to answer the question in the affirmative, but there are not too ma... | |
| Reason for buying old/classic turntables Audiofeil,What's your 69? | |
| I'm taking a poll... How do we measure 2 degrees on something like a stylus? A profile projector. I have one at work, costs 40k, does anybody else own one?Atlasiris,You can look at the stylus (under magnification) from the side as it sits on a first surface mirror and... | |
| Belt stretch Because we track our cartridges at anywhere from 1 gram to 3 grams or so, we tend to think that the braking action of the stylus in the groove is minimal and that a belt-drive is then able to overcome this negative force with ease. This is the fir... | |
| Belt stretch The technology necessary to measure the effects of stylus drag and belt stretch exists today, but the people that have access to such equipment don't give a damn about it. They're probably too busy smashing atoms together and sending things to spa... | |
| Looking for ACCURATE SPEED turntable/tonearm combo When the stylus hits a big transient the belt stretches and the platter slows for some brief instant. Once the transient peak has passed the belt rebounds toward its original (shorter) length, speeding the platter back up again.I'm just wondering ... | |
| analog vs. digital better ? or just different I say just mention the brand names. I guarantee that none of them will care (or even see this post). That way we might be able to learn a little something about your post which is, in my opinion, what this forum is all about. | |
| VPI Rim Drive vs. belt drive sound files Cool post. Would you mind detailing the entire playback and transfer chain (cartridge, cables, phonostage, etc.)? Also, was any editing (pop and click removal, EQ, etc.) done to these tracks?I'm with Emailists... I'd be all over 24/96 files if you... | |
| Square room with vaulted ceilings Mapman,Thanks for the response. This room is in a house that I'm looking at, so unfortunately I can not give it a try! I'm glad that you're getting good results in your square room, though. That's promising.Any other thoughts? | |
| Multiple Vulnerabilities In FLAC Thanks for the clarification, guys!I agree that most people aren't going to bother hacking FLAC files. Anyone willing to deal with the bandwidth associated with such large files aren't doing it for the sake of distributing viruses, but for the sak... | |
| Multiple Vulnerabilities In FLAC Does any of this mean anything to it's ability to perform lossless compression, though? Take a WAV, convert it to FLAC, convert it back to WAV, convert it back to FLAC, repeat 100 times and compare the last WAV with the original with software spec... | |
| Why so expensive?? I love the car analogies. The car and audio hobbies are usually very similar, but not in this case. There are no $350,000 superchargers or $100,000 turbochargers. Even the most cutting edge components are not even close to these costs. Why? Becaus... | |
| Vandersteen 2CE Sigs tweeter too high Rosedanny,Be thankful that your speakers have instructions on how to perfectly time align the drivers. Take advantage of it. Time alignment of the drivers is the first parameter you should adjust. After that you can mess with toe, speaker placemen... |