larryi
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| speaker repair Almost any foam surround is subject to deterioration with age, particularly if exposed to strong light or if the air has high levels of ozone (location in a city). Rubber lasts longer, but rubber will eventually harden. The longest lasting surro... | |
| Astoudingly good recording of Wagner's Parsifal Parsifal is one of my favorite Wagner opera. Thanks for the heads up on a decent sounding version. I have put it my Arkivmusic shopping cart. Do you know if the recording comes with a decent booklet with a libretto (I hate the fact that most CD... | |
| What is the one piece of advice you would give about attending AXPONA? Three days is a lot of time, so I would use the first day to do a quick survey to find the rooms you are most interested in doing a bit more long-term listening. Make notes about which room because it is easy to forget or get confused. The first... | |
| Tube Integrated Pairing For Harbeth Monitor 30.1 My local dealer shows both the 30.2 and SHL5+ with only tube amps. The store does not sell any solid state amps, so the speakers all must be tube friendly. He considers the Harbeth line to be tube friendly. The line of integrated amps he most c... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? A very rough experiment could be done with a blank record. One could set anti-skating so that the arm stays roughly in place at a certain radius for 33.33 rpm, and then set the stylus down at the same point when playing a 45 rpm record. If the s... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? The coefficient of friction between sliding surfaces is not determined by a simple Newtonian physics equation. At different velocities the value changes--it generally increases with increased velocity. The shape, elastic properties of the surfac... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? mijostyn,There is a good reason for not setting anti-skating to work best for the loudest passage. According to a number of experts, including Peter Lederman of SoundSmith, skating force varies with groove modulation, with more force at higher mo... | |
| Direct 2 Disc A friend of mine has a quite large collection that includes a lot of very small label blues recordings. Often, it is something recorded in someone's house, not a studio, using only a few microphones. Some of these recordings are stunningly reali... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? Yes, I would expect that lower friction would also mean lower skating force. In any event, if it sounds better to you to not use the antiskating mechanism, you then only have to decide whether or not you are concerned with uneven groove and stylu... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? At best, any compensation is just a rough average of the force that is required to compensate for skating forces, the actual skating force varies greatly due to different operating conditions. In particular, there is more skating force when the s... | |
| Advice and help understanding, choosing a Widebander / Single Full Range Driver speaker? I also find high frequencies to be tricky with full range drivers. It is not just the case that the top end is limited, so one does not get that bit of sparkle on top and the sense of natural note decay, that lack of top end makes the upper midra... | |
| Direct 2 Disc I agree, "For Duke" is on my short list for demo discs, along with "Fatha" another fantastic M&K D2D recording. If I put together my short-list of demo records, it would contain:TBM-Yamamoto Trio-Midnight Sugar (1st pressing)???-Clark Terry-A... | |
| Direct 2 Disc Sheffield did some good D2D recordings. I like a couple of their Harry James records--"Still Harry After All These Years" and "King James Version"; alsoAmanda McBroom-"West of Oz" and "Growing Up in Hollywood Town";M&K Realtime Records did so... | |
| anybody buying into magnetic levitation "eliminates the effects of any vibration" ? Geoffkait,I don't see the point in quibbling with every comment, particularly when they are meant to just to illustrate a general point, which I think we all agree--nothing is perfect, so it did not make sense for the OP to harp on the manufacture... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? The Ledermann (of SoudSmith) video's mentioned above have a pretty good discussion of skating and how to do the adjustment. The bottom line is that ANY method employed, and ANY mechanism will, at best, provide only roughly correct compensation, a... |