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| Suggestions for phono preamp for LOMC's Check out he recent thread on SUTs. There you will find mention of good high gain phono stages that are compatible with LOMC cartridges. Also I suggest you read up on “gain”, the meaning of db, etc, so you can calculate how much gain is enough for... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital In my above post, the sentence "In general I have found that sampling is a good thing." contains a typo. Should have written or meant to write "upsampling" is a good thing. | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital Vinylshadow, that hasn’t been my experience. In general I have found that sampling is a good thing. Also, you leave out SACD. I find that music recorded as SACD and played back as such is far superior to RBCD; whereas older recordings reproduced o... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL Pindac, you’ve risen in my esteem. Stacked 57s are among the finest sounding speakers I’ve ever heard. I’ve a local friend who even runs 3 pairs! Dave Slagle (EMIA) built for him tube amplifiers that direct drive the panels via a single transforme... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital Richardbrand, With all due respect, you asked a very bad, very open-ended question with many ambiguous edges (the question pre-supposes that analog is in fact superior to digital and that there is or could ever be such a thing as a recording that ... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL What is so interesting is that Mijostyn and I arrived at the same speakers (full range ESLs) driven by the same brand of amplifier (Atmasphere) completely independent of one another and before we ever met on this forum, and yet we differ emphatica... | |
| better wood for a plinth I think you mean CLD (Constrained Layer Damping), not CLS. CLS was a great ESL made by Martin-Logan. Mijo, The dogma would say you ought not to put any material between two layers where you want the impedance to energy sharing to be minimal. (IO... | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL I need subwoofers to replicate the sound of small group jazz taking place 20 feet from my chair? I have to say no to that. None of the instruments get below 50 Hz, where my ESLs operate just fine, and there is no hall to reverberate in a small jaz... | |
| Does Anyone Know the History of the Early Sota Turntables? Definitely not rubber, for sure. | |
| Phono preamp for a Denon 103R cartridge. Zarf, I think you meant to say that the TZ Vibe is specifically designed for LOMC cartridges with very low internal resistance. The DL103 is an LOMC with relatively high internal resistance and so would not be the best match with the TZ Vibe or an... | |
| Does Anyone Know the History of the Early Sota Turntables? In terms of who did vacuum clamping first, what about Micro Seiki, and what about the Audio Technica vacuum mat? Where do they fit in historically? There’s also the Victor TT801. Most likely that latter TT predates SOTA, but I don’t know for sure.... | |
| Does Anyone Know the History of the Early Sota Turntables? Except in the case of my Star Sapphire III, the vacuum clamp introduced a faint dull haze over the music. Sounded better with vacuum off. | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL We go out to hear live jazz at least once, twice per month, almost always in small jazz clubs listening to quartets or quintets. In those situations, I often try closing my eyes in order to appreciate what "imaging" is like in real life. Even in... | |
| Does Anyone Know the History of the Early Sota Turntables? I am sure the platter speed was well beyond 78 rpm by the time he yanked the plug out of the socket. | |
| Does Anyone Know the History of the Early Sota Turntables? I think the Gem post dated the early years and was an attempt to appeal to budget conscious buyers. My anecdote about the platter taking off was intended as humor, but the platter speed was truly out of control and gaining in velocity. My friend d... |