lewm
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| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live Much of the energy used to drive the Sound Lab is soaked up by the passive crossover, because SL (for other compelling reasons) chose to use a resistance in the RC network that comprises the high pass filter that is much lower than the natural imp... | |
| Ground voltage!! If that is true, then you have a discontinuity somewhere between neutral and earth ground. Could be anywhere all the way back to the circuit breaker box for your apartment building. Or could be local. You might call it to the attention of your ... | |
| Ground voltage!! kota, if you are selling line conditioners here, I don't think Audiogon will like it. Nor is a line conditioner at all relevant to the question. | |
| Ground voltage!! My guess is you've measured the wrong thing. A modern wall outlet has 3 receptacles. The two slotted ones are where the line AC voltage appears, across hot and neutral. (The bigger slot is "hot", I think.) The third, semicircular receptacle is ... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live “In another room “ stories are absolutely irrelevant. When the source is in another room with respect to the room inhabited by the listener, the ear and brain are deprived of several cues used to distinguish live from reproduced music. Phase and b... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live No need to say more. I’m sorry I opened up yet another can of audiophile worms. | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live henry53, In a small club listening to a vocalist backed up by a small jazz group or to a small jazz group alone, you certainly can hear a degree of "realism" not easily replicated in the home. In that sort of set-up, some of the instruments and a... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Ralph, thanks. Your corroborating my preliminary hypothesis will save time. Getting the very heavy chassis safely down to my basement workshop is my next problem. I’m hoping that the output tube in question was not damaged. Visual inspection shows... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live So that takes us down a different road of inquiry. A never ending contentious one. We can all agree that sometimes the live experience is not so great, because of room acoustics, ambient noise, noisy audience, bad amplification, etc but live instr... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live When you say “improve on live sound”, what does that mean? | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? I have one output tube located in the R front corner of on one monoblock that keeps failing in the red glow death mode. This has happened 3 times over the course of years. But of those 3 incidents, two have occurred in the last 6 months. Last time... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? I have used the Audio Technica ART7 (0.12mV output, 12 ohms internal R), the ZYX Universe (0.24mV output, 4 ohms internal R), and the Ortofon MC2000 (.05mV output, 2 ohms internal R) into the BMC MCCI Signature ULN (phew, long name!). The gain str... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live Very few if any audio systems can capture the dynamics and amplitude of live music in an intimate setting. That’s a worthy goal to pursue as you grow your system. Otherwise what’s the question? | |
| Benz Micro Glider Stylus protection A stylus guard on a cartridge built like the Glider (and there are many others like it) is more of a danger than a safety benefit. Installing and removing the stylus guard is perhaps the most dangerous act involved in using a cartridge. In 45 ye... | |
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