larryi
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| Stylus skipping at beginning of record The problem most likely has to do with the raised bead around the edge of most records. That bead gives the record strength, and in the old days, that bead also kept record surfaces from touching each other when records were stacked for automatic... | |
| SUT - electrical theory and practical experience Perhaps they do, I don't care about religious arguments over purity or neutrality, etc. because I like many tube phono stages that employ a SUT. My own, a Viva Fono has a built in SUT. The Audio Note phonostages are all MM stages with the expect... | |
| SUT - electrical theory and practical experience As tiny as the signal is from a MC cartridge, it is a, relatively speaking, high current/low voltage source. The phono amplifier is designed as a voltage amplifier. The step up transformer converts high current/low voltage to high voltage/low cu... | |
| Marten Parker Quintet and the Marten Parker Trio Diamond version...if you could choose ? At shows, the gear that sounds vivid and exciting can make more neutral stuff seem blah. But, their is the danger that the attention grabbing stuff will become tiring in the long run. The Parker Trio's did not have immediate, attention grabbing ... | |
| Are advances in technology making speakers better? I personally tend to focus on development of high efficiency designs because I prefer the sound of low-powered amps, particularly certain tube amps. In that realm, there have certainly been some recent developments/refinement of drivers that I wo... | |
| Are advances in technology making speakers better? phusis, This is a terrific summary of the kind of systems that cannot be matched by modern systems. They cannot be placed in anything but the largest rooms and are quite impractical, but, they are magnificent. I've heard a few modern versions t... | |
| Are advances in technology making speakers better? I don't think we disagree. The technology is important. I just think the particular sound the designer is shooting for is much more important to the sound. One can get very close to any particular sound chosen with technology from the past. Wi... | |
| Marten Parker Quintet and the Marten Parker Trio Diamond version...if you could choose ? I have only heard the Parker Trio Diamond (at Capital Audiofest) and I was quite impressed with the sound, particularly its ability to sound alive and full at lower volume levels. The upper bass was a touch lean, but otherwise I liked the tonal b... | |
| Please join this poll!!! This reminds me of the musical parody on Saturday Night Live where the comic playing Kellyanne Conway reprises the Roxy number from Chicago. She is going on about how famous she is going to be and sings the line "And when they Google just the le... | |
| So, I listened to a $1Million Dollar System If you did not like the $1 million dollar system, perhaps the builder stinted on certain components and that $1.5 million should have been the budget. Who knows why a particular system does not float the boat of any particular listener? When you... | |
| Are advances in technology making speakers better? Ghdprentice, I think technological advance makes it easier to achieve any kind of sound from speakers, I just think that the kind of sound the builder is aiming for is a much more important factor than the technology employed to get there. The S... | |
| Are advances in technology making speakers better? I suspect that the taste of the buying public has more to do with the sound of modern gear than the state of the technology. The public favors “detail” which means lean upper bass because warm upper bass obscures higher frequencies that provide t... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) I would also like to add how much I appreciated Andrew Jones' representation of the Mo-Fi speaker at Capital Audiofest. He does a terrific job of explaining the design, including engineering challenges and the compromises that are made in impleme... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) I heard them at Capital Audiofest and they sounded quite good to me, particularly considering the price. It delivered reasonably deep and tight bass, a nice, warm upper bass, and smooth and natural midrange. My only negative was a touch of sibil... | |
| Are advances in technology making speakers better? Most of the advances in the last 60 years have been to make speakers more compact rather than to improve sound. Earlier speakers that were all out assaults on sound quality were gigantic in size. The advent of stereo made them even more impracti... |