larryi
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| Nordost QKORE I don't own a QKore system, but I did hear an impressive demonstration at a dealership. The dealer's system was dead quiet prior to addition of the QKore, so the improvement was not merely from the removal of audible noise (I heard what you heard... | |
| If you don't have a wide sweet spot, are you really an audiophile? I agree that if you arrange the speaker and room to obtain a wide area with some stereo imaging, you will compromise the imaging at the ideal spot in that area. If you utilize the extreme toe-in described above to trade off cues for loudness agai... | |
| If you don't have a wide sweet spot, are you really an audiophile? Way back in the 1970's or early 1980's, Leslie (the organ speaker people) came out with a home speaker system that had a narrow dispersion, but uniform frequency response on and off axis, and the drivers positioned so that the response axis cross... | |
| push pull or single ended I think there is a lot of helpful advice in this tiny thread. The Carver 275 is a pretty good amp at very decent price. White the advice on a solid state alternative (First Watt F2) may not slake your curiosity over tube alternatives, it probabl... | |
| If you don't have a wide sweet spot, are you really an audiophile? It largely depends on how rigorously one defines the sweet spot. The position where the center image is perfectly centered and everything else is ideal is almost always very small. The few occasions where I thought two people could sit side by s... | |
| "Use your mentality" is the worst lyric ever. "there's a bathroom on the right" | |
| push pull or single ended It is hard to offer any meaningful generalizations about the differences between pushpull and single-ended triode (SET) amps; there are many good and bad examples of both types. I am personally a fan of lower-powered tube amps and I own both SET ... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. mijostyn,I agree that if horizontal mass is high enough, it raises concern with very low frequency resonance. I was just pointing out what is the theory behind the anisotropic arms. As long as the bass frequencies are above the low frequency res... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. lewm,You are describing the Moerch anisotropic arm I described above. I think the model is the DP8 or DP9. I have no idea if 25 gms is too high, I just know it is WAY higher than is common with conventional arms. In the past, some users of air ... | |
| Nain Audio I agree that the 555 CD player is remarkably close to vinyl in terms of sound. When I went from that player to the NDS server, what I noticed was that there was a substantial increase in the difference between vinyl and digital playback. I could... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. It is NOT ideal to have the cartridge moving. You want the cartridge position to not change so that the full motion of the needle swinging side to side is transferred to the generating element of the cartridge. If the cartridge moves, the amplit... | |
| Nain Audio I once had the CDS3, and then later, the CD555. I liked both players, but, the CD555 is quite exceptional. It had a meaty, full sound, without being murky or sluggish like other players that can be described this way. But, because of how hard i... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. An effective mass of 25 gms is very high. Whether or not this translates to a real problem is another matter. As lewn notes, some arms deliberately have a higher horizontal mass to improve bass response, but, it is usually not that high. Bass n... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music I don't know how much of the box I've listened to because I don't make it a point to listen to everything in such a large box; I tend more to pick out favorite works to hear the particular performances contained in the box. It is only when a box ... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. Air bearing linear tracking arms can be made to have reasonably low moving mass, but, they lack the mechanical advantage of a fulcrum and pivot of a conventional arm, meaning that for any given effective mass, they do impose a lot more force on th... |