larryi
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| Koetsu surprise Karl,Have you considered the Moerch DP-8? I think that it is at least an interesting design. The arm has weights on outriggers located right at the vertical pivot of the arm. The weights substantially increase the horizontal effective mass of t... | |
| Koetsu surprise My local dealer is a BIG Koetsu fan, particularly the wood and lacquer bodied versions. He likes the top end Ortofon arms. These are the arms with the square pivot assembly (e.g., AS-309S 12") that is available from Japan, but not commonly avail... | |
| Koetsu surprise The entire Koetsu line has a saturated, harmonically dense sound that is quite musical sounding. If you want it slightly leaner and a little more like other top end cartridges, then the stone bodies Koetsu would do the trick. The wood and lacque... | |
| Top resistors My local dealer builds custom speakers. He is currently working on a pair of crossovers for me. It is taking some time to get the very specific parts he uses in his top-end crossovers, particularly the very old and HUGE caps. With my crossover... | |
| $10k DAC in a 3k system? I agree that spending $10k on a DAC for that particular system would not be the best way to spend that kind of money. I would say that the buyer would certainly hear an improvement with a much better DAC, but, money spent elsewhere would improve ... | |
| $10k DAC in a 3k system? While this would not be the most efficient allocation of resources, yes, a better DAC will make a noticeable improvement in even a quite modest system. At the Washington DC area Capitalfest audio show, a few years ago, one of the best sounding ro... | |
| Who listens primarily to Redbook CD? I listen mostly to CDs, although I have many LPs that are superior in sound to the CD reissues of those albums. I actually have ripped all of my CDs to WAV files, so I am not actually listening to the CDs themselves, even though I could do that a... | |
| Apartment Dweller's Paradise - The Ideal 2 ch. system? I like what I heard from the Odyssey Kismet speaker that was on display at a show. I believe the company makes direct sales, so it may not be that easy to arrange an audition. I heard them in a small room at a show, placed not to far from the ba... | |
| Apartment Dweller's Paradise - The Ideal 2 ch. system? If you ever looked at Japanese audio magazines, you will see a lot of systems in tiny apartments that seem to defy logic--they are HUGE horn systems. The reason for horns is that they actually sound fantastic at whisper quiet volume levels. Asid... | |
| DO NOT SELL OR BUY FROM THAILAND All of these foreigners, we should nuke them (We'll save Australia, don't want to hurt no kangaroos). | |
| Converting Solid State to Tube Rectification on a Preamp czarivey,Do you think your two triode ideal approach might explain why the manufacturer of my phonostage utilizes two 300b (or two 2a3s) as rectifiers in the power supply section? | |
| Apartment Dweller's Paradise - The Ideal 2 ch. system? The various Audio Note speakers are quite good at delivering satisfying sound at relatively low volume levels, which is a big plus in an apartment. I would also suggest looking at ProAc speakers for the same reason. The old BBC monitors, such as... | |
| Greatest song titles.. "Aliens Ate My Buick" is certainly a great album title, but, I don't believe there is a song/track by that name. | |
| This is pretty funny and probably true for most of us Funny thread. I've seen a couple of funny things in this regard. One time, when I visited a local store, I overheard an elderly gentleman talking with the store owner about making a fake invoice for the purchase. I proceeded past the pair into ... | |
| Has anyone had experiences good or bad with speaker isolation or isolation in general ? There really is no one answer as to what improves the sound of a speaker set up when it comes to damping, isolation or coupling. In some setups, damping is the right approach, in another setup with the same speakers, it is coupling. You really h... |