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| Dimond Cantilevers And Tip Mass Also, the London Decca ang Garrot Bros. cartridges have a cantilever--it is just a funky bent thing that doesn't look like anyone else's cantilever. That was an interesting cartridge--very alive sounding and almost meeting my "pretty good" stan... | |
| Dimond Cantilevers And Tip Mass Yes, AT claims the stylus and cantilever are from a single lab grown diamond. That means no squishy adhesive to mar transmission of motion down the cantilever. I have not heard this cartridge. I would like to hear it and compare it with the ART... | |
| Dimond Cantilevers And Tip Mass I think this is a very good question. Designers have adopted extraordinary measures to reduce the effective mass of the moving elements of a cartridge. The primary advantage of moving coil over moving magnet is that the effective mass of coils i... | |
| Tone arm length I have heard, and liked that table/arm combination. This is a well behaved combination that does a good job of damping resonant energy from the cartridge tracking the groove (as evidenced by how well it damps large, sharp impulses such as ticks a... | |
| What’s your favorite audio show to attend and why? Go to any show you can go to--as an audiophile you will not have as much fun doing anything else. I like going to almost every room to get a taste of what is out there and then I go back to rooms that I thought sounded particularly good. One has... | |
| I’m confused. Please explain. There is nothing wrong with picking what sounds good to you, regardless of how that sound matches live acoustic instruments. All systems sound quite different from live acoustic music and even if we seek to most faithfully reproduce live music, w... | |
| Graphene Sluggo - Unlocking Sonic Scenery Whether the graphene sluggo minimizes loss through the fuse holder or alters the flow somehow can best be answered by someone who owns the digital fuse box and can bypass the fuse holder with a simple wiring change. Yet, it seems no one is making... | |
| Graphene Sluggo - Unlocking Sonic Scenery I still don't quite understand what is the claim about the graphene sluggo. Is it that the sluggo minimizes the restriction of flow of electricity across the fuse holder and thereby improves the sound? Or, alternatively, that the graphene sluggo... | |
| If A.I. took the place of musicians, would you listen to it? There is a company out there with a business model that involves using computers to generate "music," filing for copyright of that music, then using software to search for instances where new music happens to violate one of their copyrights so tha... | |
| Graphene Sluggo - Unlocking Sonic Scenery Thank you for clarifying that none of your trials and comparisons were made without the digital fusebox in the circuit. This means power going through one additional three prong plug, additional wiring of the digital fusebox, additional relay con... | |
| Graphene Sluggo - Unlocking Sonic Scenery Your recommendation to try the graphene slug in an amp first and then a DAC, is this with or without the digital fusebox for purposes of a brief demonstration? I've only heard a brief demonstration of fuse vs. no fuse (copper slug), and I did n... | |
| Graphene Sluggo - Unlocking Sonic Scenery Okay, the slug may be a positive "addition" to the circuit that improves the sound in your system, but, what it is doing to the sound can still be best ascertained by seeing how the addition compares with a bypass of the fuse holder entirely. Oth... | |
| Graphene Sluggo - Unlocking Sonic Scenery Assuming you are willing to take the risk of running your gear without a fuse, why use an expensive slug when you can re-wire and bypass the fuse holder entirely with a straight piece of wire? A slug would only make sense if you have plugged the ... | |
| The criteria for loudspeaker choices. You cannot assume that a technology good for one purpose (e.g., tweeter) will be best doing the job at other frequencies. If that were the case, there would be only one driver or type of driver in all speakers. There probably are tradeoffs made ... | |
| Why I don't hear bass drums on Jazz LPs? That "Night in Tunisia" track I mentioned above includes a Ron Carter bass solo and a Tony Williams drum solo with very prominent bass drums. This reminds me of a jazz music joke: An anthropologist is given the privilege of being the first outsid... |